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Lions Gate Home Entertainment will release the "based on true events" thriller Open Water on December 28th. This disc will be presented in an anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with both English Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 6.1 audio tracks. Extras will include a two audio commentaries (the first with Director Chris Kentis and Producer Laura Lau; the second with stars Blanchard Ryan and Daniel Travis), an "Indie Essentials" filmmaker guide to marketing a movie, & a "On The High Seas: Making Open Water" featurett....

Fox will finally release the complete fifth season of The Simpsons on December 21st. Each episode will be presented in 1.33:1 fullscreen transfers, along with English Dolby Digital 5.1 and both Spanish and French Dolby Digital 2.0 audio tracks. Extras will include a commentary tracks on 6 episodes (by Matt Groening and his associates), animatics and storyboards with illustrated commentary, commercials, Tree House of Horror Sketches and deleted scenes. If more extras are announced, we will let you know.

In the firm's latest reversal, Sony has abandoned anti-copying technology on CD's. The corporate claim is that the anti-piracy message has been communicated, and such measures are not really necessary. Now - consider also that Sony recently announced that it will allow the playback of native MP3 in its digital music players, and a somewhat different message is communicated: Sony figures they can make more money selling music and hardware that allows consumers the freedom to do with their media as they please. Too bad it...took Sony however many years to come to this realization - personally I'm looking forward to seeing some viable iPod competitors at long last.

Yahoo! News: Sony abandons anti-copying technology.

On January 4th, New Line will release separate Rated and Unrated editions of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Both releases will feature a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. Extras will include two audio commentaries (teh first with director Danny Leiner and actors John Cho and Kal Penn, the second with writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg), deleted scenes, "Back Seat" Interviews, an "Art of the Fart" sound documentary, Cast & Crew: Drive-Thru Bites,..."A Trip to the Land of Burgers" featurette, a script to screen feature (with storyboards), a "Me and Weedy" photo activity, and the theatrical trailer. The unrated edition will also include a bonus “Extreme” commentary track (with Danny Bouchard), some 'extreme' outtakes and a music video.

On January 4th, New Line will release separate Rated and Unrated editions of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Both releases will feature a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. Extras will include two audio commentaries (teh first with director Danny Leiner and actors John Cho and Kal Penn, the second with writers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg), deleted scenes, "Back Seat" Interviews, an "Art of the Fart" sound documentary, Cast & Crew: Drive-Thru Bites,..."A Trip to the Land of Burgers" featurette, a script to screen feature (with storyboards), a "Me and Weedy" photo activity, and the theatrical trailer. The unrated edition will also include a bonus “Extreme” commentary track (with Danny Bouchard), some 'extreme' outtakes and a music video.

DreamWorks will release the Tom Cruise / Jamie Foxx thriller Collateral on December 14th. This 2-disc set will be presented in a 2.40:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with English DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1, & Dolby Digital 2.0 audio tracks. The “extras” information is a little sketchy at this time, but we do know that this disc will include at least three featurettes (“City Of Night: The Making of Collateral”, “Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx Rehearse” & “Visual FX: MTA Train”), as well as deleted scenes and t...ailers. We will post the remainder of the special features as they become available.

A new technology capable of storing the equivalent of 100 DVDs on a single DVD-size disc has been unveiled by researchers from London's Imperial College.

Read more on CNet News.

Columbia-Tristar will release Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, the sequel to the atrocious J-Lo film Anaconda, on December 7th. This disc will be presented in an anamorphic widescreen transfer, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. Extras will include a “Creating Anacondas” featurette, as well as a collection of deleted scenes, and trailers.
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment will release the complete first season of the Tim Allen hit show Home Improvement on November 23rd. All 24 first season episodes will be spread over 3-discs, and will be presented in 1.33:1 fullscreen along with an English Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track. Extras will include audio commentaries from the show's creators on all the episodes, as well as a “Loose Screws“ featurette.

Yup, the A-Team is being made into a movie, and thus will eventually be a DVD. In the meantime, I'm sure you can expect all sorts of SE/CE/??? DVD releases of the original series, and plenty of hype. Looks like for the movie the surviving original cast (Mr. T, etc. - Hanninbal died a few years back) will be resticted to cameos. The setting will be modern day with the A-Team perhaps hailing from the Persian Gulf instead of Vietnam.

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