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The
Phantom Menace DVD Is Coming Soon
 While
the long-awaited DVD of Star
Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace is finally coming next
week (October 16), when can Star Wars and DVD fans expect the DVD releases
for the original Star Wars trilogy: Star Wars (A New Hope,
episode 4), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (episode 5),
and Star Wars: Return of The Jedi (episode 6)? Find out
here.
If you haven't pre-ordered
your copy of Episode I, what are you waiting for? It's a 2-disc Special Edition with over six hours of bonus
programming that promises to "transport the viewer deeper into
the Star Wars universe than ever before". Disc
specifications and details of the bonus
features of this long-anticipated DVD can be found here.
This 2-disc set will carry a suggested retail price of $29.98.
Pre-order
your copy from Buy.com
today for only
$18.95 (36% off). Read
more.
Superbit™
DVDs
 Columbia TriStar is releasing
a new series of Superbit™ DVDs starting October 9 that
promises superior image quality through the use of higher video bit rates
and unsurpassed sound quality using DTS
5.1 Surround Sound. We got
our hands on three of the five titles released, namely Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,
The Fifth Element, and Air Force One. So how
good do these DVDs really look and sound? Will the Superbit
DVD series usher in a new approach to releasing movies to DVD ?
What other titles are planned for Superbit releases? Check out our early
assessment.
Multi-Channel
Audio Formats: DVD-Audio & SACD  Are
you aware of the two new
high resolution audio formats? They are DVD-Audio
(or DVD-A) and Super
Audio CD (or SACD). While both formats offer significant improvement to
the high fidelity audio reproduction, they support multi-channel music
reproduction from original multi-channel recordings and studio
re-mixes. From early listening tests, the multi-channel music is
awesome and totally compelling. The best way to describe the
multi-channel music experience is that it's "virtual
reality" for sound. The immersive experience
revived our interest for dedicated music listening. You have
to experience these new formats on a high quality audio system first
hand. The
DVD-Audio and Super Audio CD formats each has its advantages and
disadvantages. Read our new tutorials
on DVD-Audio
and Super
Audio CD for more info.
Our
First Music Review  The
Film Music of Jerry Goldsmith Super Audio CD. Jerry Goldsmith is
the composer and conductor for many movie scores and TV theme songs
such as "Along
Came A Spider", "Hollow
Man", "The Mummy", "The
Haunting", "Star Trek: The Motion Picture",
"Air Force One", "Planet of the Apes" (1967).
His credits also includes TV theme songs such as "The Waltons"
and "Barnaby Jones". Considering we review DVD
movies, this album is quite appropriate as our first music
review. Read
our review of this multi-channel SACD and see why we highly
recommend this SACD album.
"It's How They Said It" - memorable movie quotes
"You do what you
are... You're born with a gift. If not that then you get good at
something along the way. And what you're good at, you don't take for
granted. You don't betray it. [If you do] then you betray yourself.
That's a sad thing."
Morgan Freeman as Alex Cross, a police detective in
Along
Came A Spider (now on DVD)
"My parents are not
spies, they're not cool enough!"
Alexa Vega as Carmen, a child spy in
Spy
Kids (now on DVD)
"Oh, I hate mummies!"
Brendan Fraser as Rick O'Connell, an expert mummy
hunter in
The
Mummy Returns (now on DVD)
New Releases
 New
DVD releases this week, October 9, include: Bridget
Jones's Diary, The
Godfather DVD Collection, Snow
White and the Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition,
Cique du Soleil: Journey of Man, and Columbia
TriStar's Superbit DVDs. Other recently released titles
include:
The
Mummy Returns, Along
Came A Spider, Crocodile
Dundee in Los Angeles, Spy
Kids, A
Knight's Tale, Hannibal,
Silence
of the Lambs. See our complete list of new
and recent DVD releases.
Upcoming Releases This
is the time of the year for many awesome DVD movie releases, in time
for the holiday shopping season. Here
are a few of the DVD titles we added to our list of upcoming releases
since the last e-Newsletter:
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Angel
Eyes (Jennifer Lopez) - 10/16
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Legally
Blonde (Reese Witherspoon) - 11/6
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America's
Sweethearts (Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy
Crystal) - 11/13
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Planet
of the Apes (2001, Tim Burton's) - 11/20
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Almost
Famous: The Booleg Cut (director's cut) - 12/4
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Beethovan's
4th - 12/4
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Rush
Hour 2: infinifilm (Jackie Chan, Chris Tucker, Zhang
Ziyi) - 12/11
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The
Princess Diaries (Julie Andrews) - 12/18
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Moulin
Rouge: 5-Star Ed. (Nicole Kidman) - 12/18
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Scary
Movie 2 - 12/18
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Atlantis:
The Lost Empire (Disney animation) - 1/29/02
And don't forget
about these upcoming releases
as previously announced in our e-Newsletter:
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Star
Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace - 10/16
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Cats
& Dogs (Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins) - 10/16
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Dumbo:
60th Anniv Ed. - confirmed 10/23
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Final
Fantasy: The Spirits Within 2-disc Special Ed.
(computer animation) - 10/23
-
Dr.
Dolittle 2 - confirmed 10/23
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Shrek
(Dreamworks animation) - 11/2
-
Lara
Croft: Tomb Raider (Angelina Jolie) - 11/13
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Dr.
Suess's How the Grinch Stole Christmas - 11/20
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Jurassic
Park III - confirmed for 12/11
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Pearl
Harbor 2-disc 60th Anniv. Commemorative Ed. - 12/4
(Vista Series on 1/15/02)
more
upcoming releases >>
Good
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DVD
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Mummy Returns for only $17.95, Spy Kids for only
$19.99, The Terminator: Special Ed. for only $18.94, Hannibal
for only $16.94, Memento for only $14.99, and The Family Man
for only $16.94. Check these and other great deals on our DVD
Movies on Sale page.
DVD
Players On Sale: If you're looking for a good
sale on a DVD player, make sure you check out our list of DVD
players on sale before you buy. Here are some examples of
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