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Somebody on Reddit put Sonic 3 up as their new family friendly Atmos reference disc, sitting just behind The Wild Robot, and their existing rotation is Top Gun Maverick, Saving Private Ryan and Avatar Fire and Ash. Their description of it is the useful part: no real LFE punch, but roughly every...

House of the Dragon season three is up for pre-order on 4K UHD in the UK, dated 30 November, with a steelbook running alongside the standard edition. The listing is more interesting than these usually are. Eight extended episodes, a twenty minute featurette flagged as exclusive to physical, and...

Twenty years on from August 2006 and Talladega Nights is getting a 4K disc, with a review already up at HTF. I have not seen a word about the transfer itself yet, so I am going in with questions rather than opinions. Mid-2000s studio comedies are an awkward category on 4K. Films from that...

The American branch of Umbrella Entertainment has announced Goodbye Paradise, Carl Schulz's 1983 Australian neo-noir with Ray Barrett, Robyn Nevin, Kate Fitzpatrick, John Clayton and Lex Marinos. Date given is September 29. That is the entire announcement, which is my recurring complaint with...

Home Cinema Choice ran a retrospective on the birth of Blu-ray and it reminded me how much of the standard story is wrong. The usual telling is that Warner switched sides and HD DVD folded. True, but it's the ending, not the reason. The context the piece sets up matters. By 2000 DVD was already...