Catch And Release £8.83 @ dvd.co.uk

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Region B
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound: PCM 5.1
Running Time: 107 minutes
Production Year: 2007
Main Language: English

Screenwriter Susannah Grant makes her directorial debut in this tale of love loss and finding new love. Gray Wheelers (Jennifer Garner) wedding day is not going as planned. Instead of walking down the aisle in her wedding gown she is at the funeral of her fiance Grady following his accidental death on a trip meant to be his bachelor party.

These cheap Blu-ray players keep popping up! A new one announced today is the AMEX DIGITAL Blu-ray DVD Player BD-P1 It does look a nice tidy little unit. Unfortunately it looks like its aimed at the American market with a price tag of $199. Pity the Pound Dollar exchange rate sucks at the moment. It doesn’t appear to support BD Live and currently runs profile 1.1

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Specs:

Take full advantage of the high-definition revolution with this Blu-ray Disc player. It supports both single- and dual-layer BD-R and BD-RE discs, as well as BD-ROM discs, and provides decoders for Dolby Digital and DTS formats.

Blu-ray Disc format-compatible for high-definition movie playback with resolution up to 5 times greater than DVD via the HDMI 1.3 interface.

Delivers greatly enhanced video performance with standard DVDs by upconverting their video resolution to HDTV-compliant 720p, 1080i or 1080p via the HDMI 1.3 interface.

- Plays BD-ROM,BD-R,BD-R3.0,BD-JAVA 1.1,SUN-JAVA discs; Backward compatible with DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD and CD-R/RW discs; compatible with MP3, WMA and JPEG formats.
- Built-in decoders for next-generation Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD high-resolution surround, plus lossless Dolby TrueHD.
- Built-in Ethernet and USB 2.0 ports for the future network connection and firmware upgrades.
- 10-bit/108MHz video digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion.
- 24-bit/192kHz audio digital-to-analog (D/A)converter.
- Display: Color VFD Display.
- HDMI version 1.3 with Deep Color support.
- Outputs: 1*component video, 1*composite video, 1*HDMI, 1*stereo audio, 1*optical digital audio,1*Coaxial , 1*7.1ch audio(optional)

Full press release here.

New toys from Pioneer!

Pioneer Electronics will launch its first out-of-the-box-BD Live Blu-ray Disc players, as well as its first mass-market-priced model in May.

Considering current market conditions and falling technology prices, Pioneer felt now the time was right to expand beyond its current core elite market focus. Its BDP-120 will be priced at less than $300 and will ship with a 1GB flash drive for external content storage. It will automatically be able to playback Web-enabled features without the need for firmware upgrades. More…

Dirty Harry @ Amazon.co.uk

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A tremendously controversial film, both decried as an apologia for fascism and hailed as the solution to a decade of rising crime, DIRTY HARRY propelled Clint Eastwood’s career into the stratosphere while adding another archetype to join his Man with No Name in film iconography. Clint stars as Harry Callahan, a truculent San Francisco police detective well known for his vicious take-no-prisoners attitude toward criminals. With the city of San Francisco being terrorized by the psychotic killer known only as Scorpio (a character that is firmly based on San Francisco’s Zodiac Killer), Harry is assigned by the mayor (John Vernon) and Lt. Bressler (Harry Guardino) to try to stop him, pairing him with reluctantly accepted new partner Chico (Reni Santoni). Scorpio kidnaps a 14-year-old girl and buries her alive, demanding a $200,000 ransom for her return. Harry is to bring him the money–alone.

What follows is one of the most exciting ransom deliveries in film history. The prototype for most of the action films through the rest of the century, DIRTY HARRY rises far above most of them due mostly to an excellent script and Eastwood’s gripping acting. That said, the main character’s contemptuous attitude toward the Miranda law seems far more damning now that it did in the early 1970s.

Callahan’s exploits proved extremely popular and the inevitable sequel, MAGNUM FORCE was released two years later, and in turn was followed by a further three sequels, THE ENFORCER (1976), SUDDEN IMPACT (1983) and THE DEAD POOL (1989). Though the sequels are of varying quality, none diminish the importance of the original, which is now considered a classic.