Welcome to this week’s edition of the New Release Tuesday Blog. Some pretty good titles are hitting the street today. On DVD, we get The Departed, Marie Antoinette, Half Nelson, and a couple of Criterion releases in Bicycle Thieves & Green for Danger. In the world of TV-on-DVD, we get Golden Girls – Season Seven, The Hills – Season One & the complete series of Men Behaving Badly. Lastly, we get LOTS of good Hi-Def titles, including The Usual Suspects… Phone Booth, and Broken Arrow on Blu-ray, and The Departed on both Blu-ray and HD DVD. Here are the rest of this week’s notable releases…

Top SD DVD releases

• The Departed (Two-Disc Special Edition)
• Marie Antoinette
• Half Nelson
• Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
• Green for Danger - Criterion Collection
• School for Scoundrels (Unrated Edition)
• Zoom - Academy for Superheroes
• The Infernal Affairs Trilogy (Infernal Affairs 1 / Infernal Affairs 2 / Infernal Affairs 3) (Special Collector’s Edition Box Set)
• The Quiet
• Infamous
• The U.S. vs. John Lennon
• The Butcher Boy
• Masters of Horror - Pelts
• F**K
• Man About Town
• 13 Tzameti

Top TV on DVD releases

• The Golden Girls - The Complete Seventh and Final Season
• The Hills - The Complete First Season
• Men Behaving Badly - The Complete Series
• Hustle - Complete Season Two
• All in the Family - The Complete Sixth Season
• Emergency - Season Three
• Beauty and the Beast - The Complete First Season

Top HD-DVD/Blu-Ray releases

• The Departed [Blu-ray]
• Phone Booth [Blu-ray]
• The Usual Suspects [Blu-ray]
• Broken Arrow [Blu-ray]
• Ladder 49 [Blu-ray]
• Reign of Fire [Blu-ray]
• Planet of the Apes (2001) [Blu-ray]
• The Marine [Blu-ray]
• Entrapment [Blu-ray]
• The Sentinel [Blu-ray]
• Chain Reaction [Blu-ray]
• Chronos [Blu-ray]
• The Departed [HD DVD]

That’s it for this week… check back again next Tuesday to see what makes our list. As always, feel free to post your comments on this “New Release Tuesday” blog… let me know what you think.