Amazon placating delayed Marvel Cinematic Universe pre-orderers with free Avengers Blu-rays

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About a week ago we got the bad news that Marvel's entirely over the top Cinematic Universe: Phase One Blu-ray set would be delayed until spring 2013 while Disney works up a new case, but there is a silver lining for those who preordered from Amazon. One of our readers forwarded us an email sent out to those who preordered, indicating that in the meantime, they will receive The Avengers two disc … [Read more...]

Redbox deal with Universal keeps DVDs, Blu-rays on 28-day delay through 2014

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So far, Redbox has maintained that it's only willing to delay rentals of new releases a maximum of one month, but while Warner pushes for a longer window the rental kiosk chain has reached an agreement with Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The new deal keeps the delay window at 28 days, and promises to keep the discs flowing through August 2014. Despite Redbox's threat to start offering … [Read more...]

Top 25 Worst Blu-rays

We've covered our favorite Blu-ray discs and our favorite special features, so we thought it was time to finally take a look at some of the worst Blu-rays on the market. Yup, they exist bad Blu-ray discs. In fact, there's a lot of them out there. Here's the unfortunate truth behind why it happe... IGN Blu-ray … [Read more...]