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The number is expected to break a format record.
Warner Bros. is expected to ship a record one million Blu-ray copies of The Dark Knight to retail stores for its release on December 9.
That’s according to an article by Video Business.
Paramount Studios reported in October that Iron Man, the Robert Downey action hit, [...]

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Included with many Blu-ray releases is a small slip of paper which contains a warning that the disc may not play in your player unless your player has its latest firmware upgrade. It suggests that you visit http://www.blu-raydisc.com/forbestresults which contains a listing of all the various Blu-ray players and links to the [...]

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Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs. The problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount’s BD-Live servers, causing delays while loading the disc. Which really makes you wonder what will happen when [...]

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Six major movie studios sued RealNetworks, the Seattle-based digital media company, on Tuesday over its new $30 software program that allows people to make digital copies of their DVDs.
As the opening warning on every DVD indicates, Hollywood has bitterly opposed such copying. The studios have argued that it threatens their emerging business [...]

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More than six months after HD-DVD gave up the format war, there are several signs that Sony’s rival Blu-ray format is struggling to gain consumer acceptance. According to recent sales data from Nielsen, market share for Blu-ray discs in the U.S. is declining, and Sony and its Blu-ray partners are trying several [...]

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By Warner Home Video

A Cinerama shot from How the West Was Won

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Home theater buffs can resurrect a groundbreaking Cold War-era film format in their homes this week with the new Blu-ray Disc version of How the West Was Won, out today [...]