Kind of a slow week. But not a terrible week by any means. Anything for you?

* The Orphanage (New Line Cinema)
* Six Degrees Could Change the World (National Geographic)
* One Missed Call (Warner Bros.)
* Sublime: Uncut (Warner Bros.)

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Plenty of Predator and Alien action this week. At last Predator 1 hits Blu-ray. I’ve been waiting for that for a while. Anything for your this week?

* Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (Fox)
* Alien vs. Predator/Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (Two-Pack) (Fox)
* Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (Image)
* Commando (Fox)
* Juno (Fox)
* Mariah Carey: The Adventures of Mimi (Image)
* A Passage to India (Sony)
* Predator (Fox)

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This week you can get a couple BD-Live movies (Walk Hard & The 6th Day). If you get a BD-Live movie let us know how it is in the comments.

* Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Sony Pictures)
* The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (Sony Pictures)
* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: 20th Anniversary Edition (Sony Pictures)
* The 6th Day (Sony Pictures)
* Space Ace (Digital Leisure)
* Sharkwater (National Geographic)
* Yukikaze (Bandai Visual)

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Seems like the Blu-ray floodgates are starting to open. Plenty to pick from this week and a lot more coming in the next couple months. Anything for you this week?

* Alvin and the Chipmunks (20th Century Fox)
* Unbreakable (Disney / Buena Vista)
* Hidalgo (Disney / Buena Vista)
* Coyote Ugly: The Double-Shot Edition (Disney / Buena Vista)
* Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveShow Live from Madison Square Garden (Sony Music)
* Category 7: The End of the World (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
* The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
* Beer League (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
* 10.5: Apocalypse (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
* The Last Sentinel (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
* Blackbeard (Echo Bridge Entertainment)
* Behind the Yellow Line (Celestial Pictures)

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A little more than last week. But if there is nothing for you this week, next week has 13 titles! If your not sure how to adjust your HDTV, be sure to check out Digital Video Essentials.

Bonnie and Clyde - Warner Bros.
Digital Video Essentials - DVD International
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Opus Arte
Naked Beneath the Water - Phoenix Entertainment
Steep - Sony Pictures

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Well this doesn’t happen to often. We get details of a firmware update before it arrives, lol. But this is how it should be every time. Usually it’s released late one night and the gaming forums try to figure out the changes all night.

Check out the list below for all the details. It should arrive in the next few days according to Sony.

*BD-Live functionality

* The ability to copy PS3 Music and Photo playlists to a PSP system. We introduced the ability to create Music and Photo playlists on the PS3 in firmware update v2.0. Now you can easily export your playlists to your PSP.

* You can now play DivX and WMV format files that are over 2 GB.

* Resume Play - begin playing a DVD or BD disc from the point where you previously stopped it, even if you eject the disc and insert a different movie or game.

* Use your PSP as a remote control to play back your music files on your PS3 without turning on your TV.

* The Internet browser now displays some web pages faster. In addition [Save Target] has been added as an option under file. This option lets you save a file that is linked to a web page to your PS3 hard drive or storage media.

Firmware v2.20 bringing BD-Live to PS3

In case you forgot what BD-Live is, here is a reminder.

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This week we only have two movies. What would you do if you where the last human on earth because of a virus that wiped out or mutated everyone else and was against you? Study this film in case this ever happens. Then we have the flip side. A family friendly movie, which is about a princess thrown into the real world. It’s a spoof on all the Princess / Happily Ever After Disney movies.

Overall a slow week. But almost 40 blu-ray movies are currently slated for April according to Blu-ray’s website.

Enchanted - Disney / Buena Vista
I Am Legend - Warner Bros.

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If you’ve been craving some action Blu-rays. Then this is a good week for you. Plenty to pick from this week. Anything for you?

Appleseed Ex Machina - Warner Bros.
August Rush - Warner Bros.
Dan in Real Life - Disney / Buena Vista
Dogma - Sony Pictures
Gattaca - Sony Pictures
Hitman: Unrated - 20th Century Fox
I, Robot - 20th Century Fox
Independence Day - 20th Century Fox
No Country for Old Men - Disney / Buena Vista
Sleuth - Sony Pictures

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Well this week is all family friendly. If your looking to show off your HDTV, the first two movies should work. If your craving a action blu-ray, there are some good ones next week.

Ice Age - 20th Century Fox
Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium - 20th Century Fox
The Rookie - Disney / Buena Vista

This week we have a horror, drama, music, animated movie and anime turned live action. Kind of a slow week though. But now that all the movie studios are 100% Blu, hopefully we’ll be seeing a lot more titles soon.

* 30 Days of Night (Sony Pictures)
* Justice League: The New Frontier (Warner Bros.)
* To Kill a King (Starz Home Entertainment)
* Initial D (Tai Seng)
* Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same (Warner Bros.)

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This week offers a few music Blu-rays, and a couple thrillers. But overall a slow week for Blu-ray. Maybe it will start to pick up considering what happened last week.

Deep Purple: Live at Montreux 2006 (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
In the Valley of Elah (Warner Bros.)
Michael Clayton (Warner Bros.)
Run Lola Run (Sony Pictures)
Santana: Hymns for Peace, Live at Montreux 2004 (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
Yes: Live at Montreux 2003 (Eagle Rock Entertainment)

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UPDATE: Toshiba is reportedly abandoning HD-DVD. Source
EDIT: Toshiba hasn’t made an official announcement yet.

This week has been nothing short of a massacre:

• NetFlix announced a phase out of HD-DVD
• Best Buy, one of the largest retailers in the U.S, announced that it will strongly push Blu-Ray over HD-DVD
• Many smaller publishers, (including even pornography publishers such as Digital Playgrounds) have announced plans to support Blu-Ray and drop HD-DVD
• As if that wasn’t enough, Wal-Mart, the largest retailer of movies in the U.S, announced that it will also drop HD-DVD in June.
• Finally, Toshiba is officially admitting defeat and abandoning the format

Taps for HD DVD as Wal-Mart Backs Blu-ray
Best Buy to Back Blu-ray, Too
Netflix high-def DVDs to be only in Blu-ray
Is the tug of war over high-def DVD format over?

(thanks to Sporty, Alex, Tosh, and others for the links)
(EDIT: Switched to a more tasteful picture. Good spot Segitz)

Anything interest you this week? And good news for Blu-ray fans. Netflix goes Blu-Ray exclusive! (as Darrin pointed out in the shoutbox).

* Gone Baby Gone (Disney/Buena Vista)
* We Own the Night (Sony Pictures)
* No Reservations (Warner Bros.)
* Becoming Jane (Disney/Buena Vista)
* Over America in High Definition (Topics Entertainment)
* Over California in High Definition (Topics Entertainment)
* The Amateurs (First Look Studios)

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More than 10 titles to pick from this week. From pretty much every movie genre, even a documentary and concert blu-ray.

Across the Universe (Sony Pictures)
The Assassination of Jesse James (Warner Bros.)
The Brave One (Warner Bros.)
Breaker Morant (Image Entertainment)
Celine Dion: A New Day… Live in Las Vegas (Sony Music)
Crimson Tide (Disney / Buena Vista)
Deadliest Catch: Season 3 (Discovery Channel)
The Jane Austen Book Club (Sony Pictures)
Me, Myself & Irene (20th Century Fox)
Suburban Girl (Image Entertainment)
Wall Street (20th Century Fox)

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Got some comedy, suspense, and a couple music blu-rays. Still no Final Fantasy Advent Children Complete Why do you torture me so Sony.

Daddy Day Camp (Sony Pictures)
Damages: The Complete First Season (Sony Pictures)
Dispatch: Zimbabwe, Live at Madison Square Garden (Warner Music)
The Invasion (Warner Bros.)
Justin Timberlake: FutureSex/LoveShow Live from Madison Square Garden (Sony Music)
King of California (First Look Studios)
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (Sony Pictures)

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