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Ever wondered how a Blu-ray disc is born? Check out this step by step gallery.

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Here are the Blu-ray titles for this week. Highlights are: Fast & Furious, Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series, Green Lantern: First Flight, Torchwood: Children of Earth.

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Carmack has discussed the advantages of the format, saying their upcoming titles Doom 4 and RAGE will most certainly be released on multiple DVDs versus one blu-ray disc. According to Camrack, here’s what’s going on with the game RAGE:

“We would love to set the thing up where it filled one Blu-ray disc versus three DVDs, which is about the right mix, but the game just…we can’t cut it into a third like that,” said Carmack.

“We can cut it into two pieces. We’ve got two large wastelands on there. We just couldn’t make an arbitrary cut.”

So, in other words, RAGE will be shipped on 2 DVDs and 1 Blu-Ray. The same can’t be said for Doom 4, which will definitely ship on 3 DVDs versus 1 Blu-Ray. Also mentioned was that, no surprise here, it’s definitely a lot easier to work on the 360 version, and it involves more “sweat equity” to develop for the PS3, but they did mention that the PS3 has more theoretical raw performance than the 360, giving id Software a little more headroom for optimal performance tweaks.

From GamesIndustry.biz.

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Here are the Blu-ray titles for this week. Highlights are: Watchmen (2 different Director’s Cuts), Coraline in 3D, 300: The Complete Experience,
Echelon Conspiracy.

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Amazon is having a Blu-ray sale. Check it out.

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Here are the Blu-ray titles for this week. Highlights are: Wild Pacific, The Haunting in Connecticut, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon / Curse of the Golden Flower / House of Flying Daggers Trilogy.

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Here are the Blu-ray titles for this week. Highlights are: Knowing, The Unborn, The Universe: The Complete Season Two (History Channel), Push, The Deep & Flight 666.

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I decided to “upgrade” my copy to the Blu-ray version. Man I’m glad I did, the visual quality is outstanding. Plus the extra scenes (26 minutes worth) really help complete the story actually. Some small details you’ll notice is the characters now get bloody and dirty during the battles. More so during the Sephiroth battle.

So is it worth it? I say yes. It’s only $22.99 right now at Amazon so that’s not bad. It was the 2nd best selling Blu-ray during it’s first week of release in America too.

According to the Nielsen VideoScan BD charts, the film trailed the #1 BD release, Paramount’s Defiance film, by only 14% in sales.

Advent Children Complete reportedly sold over 100,000 copies on its first day in Japan in April, although there were three different versions issued in that country on that day. The original North American and European DVD releases of Advent Children sold 1.4 million copies as the #1 anime DVD release of 2006.

The extras aren’t bad either. They have 2 or 3 videos that give you a brief overview of the actually game. Showing some of the CGI movies and gameplay from FFVII and other titles relating to FFVII as well. I myself got board watching them after a while though. Then an back story of Denzel, which is Anime not CGI, which as good.

Final Fantasy VII: ACC Was #2 U.S. BD in First Week

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Here are the Blu-ray titles for this week. Highlights are: 12 Rounds, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, Tokyo!, How the Earth Was Made, Do the Right Thing.

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Here are the Blu-ray titles for this week. Highlights are: Inkheart, The Code, Origin: Spirits of the Past (anime), The Pianist, Pink Panther 2.