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Discussing the old school DVD’s that still sound and look great in the era of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD technology.

On paper, 2001’s Pearl Harbor must have had the studio big wigs licking their chops. Randall Wallace (Braveheart) was penning script. Action director Michael Bay (Armageddon) was going to finally direct something serious. Hot stars Ben Affleck, Josh Harnett and Kate Beckinsale were cast as a love triangle set against the back drop of the historic Japanese sneak atta…
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Amazon has a well deserved reputation as a (generally) excellent retailer and purveyor of leading edge business models. Their new movie download server – Amazon Unbox – however, is according to Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing, rife with awfulness.

From a software client that borders on malware, to TOC’s that sign away your right to your purchased content, the service is plaugued by the typically heavy handed legal stylings of the MPAA.
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Discussing the old school DVD’s that still sound and look great in the era of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD technology.

With the recent news of MGM green-lighting Terminator 4 as a future tent-pole release in the near future, I thought it would be appropriate to go back and revisit Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines on DVD.

The Terminator and T2: Judgment Day were sci-fi/action marvels anchored by James Cameron’s expansive imagination and eye for detail. While …
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