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Deadlands 2 Needs Your Vote

Pravin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:10:33 +0000

Whether you’ve enjoyed Gary Ugarek’s Deadlands 2 on HD DVD or DVD, Gary sends in word now that he needs your votes in an Audience Choice award in the World Music Independent Film Festival. Simply go to http://wmiff.com/?q=movies/vote-peoples-choice-film, scroll down once or twice and select Deadlands 2 from the list of films, then scroll to [...]

New Indie HD DVD Release: Smokers

Pravin — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:22:35 +0000

UPDATE June 30: First 100 Pre-orders are in, the disc is on! Did you think you had every last HD DVD disc accounted for? You even counted Gary Ugarek’s Deadlands which came out this year, long after the official HD DVD party ended? Well, pull out that spreadsheet or database program, because there’s soon going to be [...]

Firesales Still In Progress

Pravin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:53:39 +0000

UPDATE June 11: HDDVD.com readers get a 25% discount through June 21 (Father’s Day) by entering promotional code blog at checkout. Josh has updated the selections now that The Big Lebowski has sold out. Yup, there are still fire sales going on of HD DVD titles. News of the latest one comes by way of reader [...]

Living Up the True Meaning of Zombie – Deadlands 2 Is Back!

Pravin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:54:45 +0000

The latest news from Gary Ugarek adds a whole lot of Zombie cred to his name. Not only has he made movies about Zombies, he then got involved with trying to put out a new HD DVD disc long after the format was already laid to rest, and then had that disc project itself require [...]

Deadlands 2 – Dead or Dying?

Pravin — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:20:49 +0000

Writer/Director Gary Ugarek, the man behind Deadlands: The Rising, and its sequel, Deadlands 2: Trapped, also happens to be an HD DVD fan. He has been trying his darndest to release his latest creation on HD DVD, long after the format’s official demise. We first covered news about Deadlands 2 last September, when Gary was able [...]

Happy Holidays, Holy Days, and New Year

Pravin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:01:02 +0000

Whether you are celebrating holidays, holy days, or just taking some time off, best wishes to all of you for a wonderful new year! 2009 was a year where HD DVD lived on in some way for many of us via sales of old disc inventory, as well as promise of one last new title. Though [...]

Yet Another Blu-Ray on 360 Rumor Squashed

Pravin — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:53:18 +0000

Though Toshiba has joined other PC vendors and included Blu-ray drives on their laptops, Microsoft joins Apple on this Windows 7 release week in continuing to leave Blu-ray off their own machines. In a Windows 7 launch day interview with gadget site Gizmodo, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer made some statements that included the words “360″ and [...]

The Last HD DVD is Appropriately a Zombie Flick

Pravin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:57:50 +0000

Toshiba’s Blu-ray player did not bring HD DVD back from the dead, however Indie film makers WETNWILD FILMS and Anthem Pictures are resurrecting the HD DVD format with at least one brand new title: Deadlands 2: Trapped due out on October 27, 2009, in a limited run of only 500 copies. What started out as a [...]

Toshiba Introduces Blu-ray Disc Player

Pravin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:51:17 +0000

As I predicted in the previous posting, Toshiba made an announcement about their Blu-ray player right on time for the IFA show. There will be pictures and interviews at the gadget sites, but here’s the scoop on what Toshiba included in their press release: Model: BDX2000 Available in November for $249 BD-Live Profile 2.0 and Bonus View SD card slot [...]

Toshiba Applies to Join Blu-ray Disc Association

Pravin — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:09:29 +0000

For the last couple of months, Toshiba has mainly been making headlines on their memory and netbook models, and their blatant hesitation to make Blu-ray products. The latest buzz about Toshiba and Blu-ray went into high gear a couple of weeks ago, when a local Japanese paper mentioned that Toshiba would start making Blu-ray machines. No specific [...]