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October Baby - DVD & Blu-ray
After an incredible theatrical run that began with a top-10 opening and continued for weeks with powerful stories of hearts being touched and lives being impacted, OCTOBER BABY is available on DVD and Blu-ray beginning September 11. You can find the DVD or Blu-ray where you purchase movies.
In addition, many Christian retailers will have pre-buy options.
Courageous DVD & BLURAY
Special Features
- The Making Of Courageous
- Commentary By The Kendrick Brothers
- Deleted Scenes
- Outrageous: Outtakes & Bloopers
- Courageous In 60 Seconds
- Heart Of Courageous
- The Story Of My Father
Ridley Scott on Blu-ray Technology
"Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.
While it's exciting to consider the possibilities stemming from this era of innovation -- which directors and futurists for decades have envisioned -- that allows us to watch a movie "anywhere, anytime," the more preoccupied we become with the technologies of how movies can reach us, the less we seem to ask the most important question: How do we really want to experience a film?
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. Music and dialogue that doesn't fully reproduce the soundtrack of the original loses an essential element for its appreciation. Simply put, the film loses its power.
Short of that, the technically sophisticated Blu-ray disc, of which I've been a supporter since its inception, is the closest we've come to replicating the best theatrical viewing experience I've ever seen. It allows us to present in a person's living room films in their original form with proper colors, aspect ratio, sound quality, and, perhaps most importantly, startling clarity.
Which is why it has never made sense to me that those preoccupied with how movies are delivered have for years written off "physical media" (i.e., movies on discs) as "dead" even though the evidence shows it isn't happening and won't for years to come. Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies.
Granted, the older DVD technology is phasing out. But it is yielding to the Blu-ray just as videocassettes once gave way to the technically superior DVD. This is evolution. Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. Pundits aside, Blu-ray for the foreseeable future remains the finest technology to preserve the impact and enjoyment of watching movies at home.
We've come a long way from those flickering, silent screens which were accompanied only by a person playing a piano. What has remained constant is that people then and now have always sought out the magic one feels after watching a truly memorable film. For movie lovers it doesn't matter whether that magic comes at a theater or through a disc, an electronic stream, a satellite or a wireless device as long as it is delivered through the best possible experience."
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BluRay Disc Capacity
Article written by: Dan Beahm
I just burned 4 BluRay coasters (and am now out of BluRays since you can’t purchase inkjet printable BR disks at ANY store on the planet). Image Burn was telling me “Cannot Write Medium - Incompatible Format,” but I wasn’t really sure what that meant. What it should have said was “that file’s too big, dummy.”
Even though Adobe Encore shows the capacity of a disc as 25GB (which is also what’s printed on a BluRay disc), a BluRay disc can ACTUALLY only hold a little over 23GB (sometimes even less). If your Encore project says anything over 23 GB is being used (the big blue progress/capacity bar under “Disc Info”), you’re write is going to fail. Believe me. Anything near that 25GB capacity isn’t going to work.
Heed this advice. It will save you a lot of time, money, and wasted discs.
I usually burn a BluRay .iso rather than burning straight to disc. I then use ImgBurn to burn my BluRay later. It makes it easier to burn multiple copies, and often circumvents problems with Encore. Encore will let you burn an .ISO image up to 25GB, even though that image will not REALLY fit on a (single layer) disc.
Now you know.
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Written By: Dan Beahm
DVD, Blu-Ray, Download or Streaming?
"In what’s become the new “Paper or plastic” question, producers are asking, “Blu-Ray or DVD?”
When DVD replaced VHS, it was an obvious move and choice for us. Better overall quality, more durable, and the players had trays for the DVDs that wouldn’t hold peanut butter sandwiches. But now there’s a new kid in town: Blu-Ray. OK – it’s not new, but it hasn’t become as widely adopted by consumers yet.
Why? I think there are a few reasons: price point of the players, price point of the discs, and the fact that you have to have an HD television in order view the Blu-Ray means you have to buy a new television if you don’t have an HD one. (That would be me. I admit it – I still have a TV that doesn’t hang on a wall, is deeper than 3 inches, and is not HD unless I buy some of those glasses “as seen on TV.”)
That’s the cost-analysis side. Let’s look at the technology side.
Many movies can be downloaded from iTunes now. My family is here for a visit and my nephew has an iPod Touch. He loves watching movies and television on that. He was disappointed when a DVD of some older films he bought didn’t have a digital version he could download from iTunes. If you want to capture the younger generation, it may be time to think all-digital.
I don’t know for sure what the viewing future is for Christian film, but producers have to think about all of these options when they’re getting ready to release a film. Making movies just got a little more complicated.
What’s your viewing choice? Are you HD, Blu-Ray, DVD, streaming, downloading, or still wondering what happened to Beta-Max?" ~Article by Christian Cinema
Facing the Giants and Fireproof on Blu-Ray
Fireproof and Facing the Giants are coming out on Blu-Ray! Check 'em out, they have HD screen shots to look at.
Blu-ray!!
It looks like Blu-ray has won out over HD-DVD. Toshiba has announced that it will no longer "develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video." 'Click here' to read the full article.
Wal-Mart said it will “continue to sell through remaining HD DVD product, but in less than 30 days, customers will see a more predominant move toward Blu-ray in stores, clubs and online.
Netflix, like Wal-Mart, said it will phase out HD DVD titles completely this year. Best Buy stopped short of dropping HD DVD, but beginning in March will merchandise and market Blu-ray as the preferred format.