Monthly Archives: January, 2012

What's good on Blu-ray this week? You might check out Ryan Gosling in Drive (2011) which comes complete with an UltraViolet Digital Copy. Transformers: Dark of the Moon

An ol' school classic comes to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, as Syndicate is dropped onto download servers in the form of a demo....

Paramount has announced a release date for Martin Scorsese’s film HUGO, nominated for 11 Academy Awards this year including Best Picture and Best Director. The film will release on February 28, 2012 to Blu-ray 3D, plain ol' Blu-ray, and single-disc DVD -- all of which contain UltraViolet copies.

We're giving away a copy of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part I on Blu-ray Disc to one HD Report reader. Simply "LIKE" our FaceBook page and comment on a post. That's it!

For example, take Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Week, running now through February 5. The discount spotlight is on past Oscar winners, with five films on Blu-ray for 60-65% off. Savor wacky Natalie Portman's transformation in Black Swan ($13.99); appreciate having all your limbs with the fact-based 127 Hours ($13.99); do the DeNiro thing with Raging Bull ($9.99); play spot-the-similarities-with-Avatar with 'Dances with Wolves: 20th Anniversary Edition ($9.99); or gather the whole family around for 'The Hannibal Lecter Collection', including Manhunter, The Silence of the Lambs, and, Hannibal ($24.49). Click here to see all the deals and build up that Blu library.

The US debut of the PlayStation Vita is just a couple of weeks away, and with so-so sales so far in Japan, Sony is sweetening the pot for early adopters with some newly-announced bundle deals. Customers who pre-ordered the 3G version at $350 will get a free PlayStation Network game and 250MB of data from AT&T, along with the previously promised limited edition case, 4GB memory card and copy of Little Deviants.

Along with that whole Qwikster thing Netflix ran past the public in September before yanking it back, the concept of renting video games by mail has also been nixed by the entertainment rental giant. CEO Reed Hastings says Netflix has no intentions of challenging GameFly in the game rental biz, knocking down the plan he announced just a few short months ago.

If you're a DIRECTV subscriber scroll through your TV guide and you should find free HBO channels this weekend.

After an agreement between DIRECTV and Sunbeam ended a couple weeks ago and left Sunbean-owned stations in Boston and Miami blacked out, the two companies have finally reached a deal to get the networks back on the air.