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High-Definition Reviews

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In this section, you'll find reviews of HD-DVD, Blu-ray Disc and D-VHS titles. All reviews are credited to the individual author, and are the sole property of The Digital Bits except those indicated by (HTF) which are provided courtesy of The Home Theater Forum.

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Blu-ray Disc Format Reviews:

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3:10 to Yuma
300 (HTF)
The 400 Blows 5/28
2010 (Bill's review) 4/14
2010 (Barrie's review) 9/2
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Across the Universe
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Air Force One 5/19
Akira
Amadeus: Director's Cut
An American in Paris
Any Given Sunday: Director's Cut
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Audition: 2-Disc Collector's Edition 10/2
Australia 5/28
Away We Go 9/21
Babylon A.D.: Raw and Uncut
Bad(der) Santa
Band of Brothers (Bill's review)
Band of Brothers (Barrie's review)
The Bank Job
Baraka
Batman Begins: Limited Edition Giftset
Battle of the Bulge
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series 7/16
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan 10/16
Becket
Blade Runner: The Final Cut - 5-Disc (both Blu-ray Disc versions)
Bleak House 8/24
Body of Lies 5/28
Bolt
Bonnie and Clyde
Braveheart: Sapphire Series 8/31
The Brave One
Capricorn One (U.K. release)
Cars
Casablanca: Ultimate Collector's Edition
Casino Royale
Casino Royale: Collector's Edition
Chungking Express (Criterion)
Children of the Corn: 25th Anniversary Edition 10/7
Child's Play 10/28
A Christmas Story
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
The Chronicles of Riddick: Unrated Director's Cut 4/10
The Class 8/24
Clear and Present Danger
Clive Barker's Book of Blood: Original Director's Cut 9/25
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniversary Ultimate Edition
Coach Carter (Barrie's review)
Coach Carter (Jeff's review)
Commando
The Company
Contact 11/3
Cool Hand Luke
The Counterfeiters
The Cowboys
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button 5/8
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Barrie's review) 5/28
The Dark Knight
Dawn of the Dead: Unrated Director's Cut
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) 4/14
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 - Barrie's review) 5/28
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Day Watch: Unrated
Defiance 6/23
Defiance (Barrie's review) 5/28
Déjà Vu
The Devil's Own
Dexter: The First Season
Die Another Day
Die Hard 1 & 2
Dollhouse: Season One 8/14
Dr. No
Dr. No (Barrie's review)
Dr. Strangelove: 45th Anniversary Special Edition 5/29
The Duchess
Eastern Promises
Eagle Eye (Jeff's review)
Eagle Eye (Barrie's Review)
Echelon Conspiracy 9/2
Election
Enemy at the Gates 5/19
The English Patient (Canadian) 8/14
The Eye
Fanboys (Canadian release) 6/23
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Bueller... Bueller... Edition
The Final Countdown
The Final Countdown (Barrie's review)
Firefly: The Complete Series
Flags of Our Fathers
The Forbidden Kingdom
Fred Claus
Fringe: The Complete First Season 9/21
From Russia with Love
From Russia with Love (Barrie's review)
Frost/Nixon 5/28
For All Mankind (Criterion - Bill's review) 6/26
For All Mankind (Criterion - Barrie's review) 9/2
For Your Eyes Only
Freedom Writers
Friday the 13th: Uncut
Gattaca
Ghost
Ghostbusters 5/29
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Ghost Rider: Extended Cut
Ghosts of Mars 5/28
Ghost Town
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra 11/4
Gladiator: Sapphire Series 8/31
The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 9/2
Gran Torino 6/8
Grease: Rockin' Rydell Edition 5/8
The Greatest Game Ever Played 9/2
Groundhog Day: 15th Anniversary Edition
Halloween
Hardware 10/19
HERO 9/22
The Holiday
Home Alone: Family Fun Edition
How the West Was Won
The Hunt for Red October
I Am Legend
I Love You, Man 8/24
Independence Day
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Special Edition
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Special Edition (Barrie's review)
In the Line of Fire
In the Realm of the Senses (Criterion) 9/2
Into the Wild
The Invasion
I, Robot
Iron Man: Ultimate 2-Disc Edition
Iron Monkey 9/22
I've Loved You So Long
The Jane Austen Book Club
The Jewel of the Nile: Special Edition
JFK: Director's Cut
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
John Adams (Bill's review) 6/8
John Adams (Barrie's review) 9/2
Jumper
Juno
Kaguya's Month in Orbit
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (Barrie's review)
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (Barrie's review)
The Kite Runner
Knowing 9/21
Kung Fu Panda
L.A. Confidential
Lakeview Terrace
Land of the Dead: Unrated Director's Cut
The Last Emperor (Criterion)
The Last Metro 5/28
The Legend of Drunken Master 9/22
Let the Right One In
Live and Let Die
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue 10/27
The Love Guru
Lonesome Dove
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
Major League 5/28
Mamma Mia! The Movie
Man on Fire
The Man with the Golden Gun 9/2
The Ultimate Matrix Collection
Mean Girls 5/15
Me, Myself & Irene
Michael Clayton
A Mighty Heart 5/28
Miracle 6/10
Misery 10/26
Monsters vs. Aliens 9/30
Monty Python: Almost the Truth - The Lawyer's Cut 11/2
Monty Python's Life of Brian - The Immaculate Edition (Doogan's review)
Monty Python's Life of Brian - The Immaculate Edition (Jeff's review)
Mutant Chronicles 8/14
The National Parks: America's Best Idea - A Film by Ken Burns 10/29
The New York Ripper 10/14
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Collector's Edition
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Collector's Edition (Jahnke's review)
Night of the Creeps 10/23
Night Watch: Unrated
Nim's Island
No Reservations
North by Northwest: 50th Anniversary Edition 11/4
Old School: Unrated
The Omen Collection
Outbreak
Pale Rider
A Passage to India
Patriot Games
The Perfect Storm
Pinocchio: 70th Anniversary Platinum Edition
Pirates of the Caribbean: 3-Movie Collection
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pitch Black: Unrated Director's Cut 4/10
Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
Planet Earth: The Complete Series (Barrie's review)
Planet Earth: The Complete Series (Peter's review)
Point Break
The Police: Certifiable
Poltergeist
Powder Blue 9/2
Predator
Premonition
Primal Fear: Hard Evidence Edition 3/9
Primal Fear (Barrie's review) 5/28
Prison Break: Season One
Quantum of Solace 3/20
Quantum of Solace (Barrie's review) 3/31
Race to Witch Mountain (Jeff's review) 9/2
Race to Witch Mountain (Barrie's review) 9/2
Rachel Getting Married 5/28
Ratatouille
Redbelt
The Replacement Killers: Extended Cut
Resident Evil
Revolutionary Road 6/23
Rio Bravo
The Robe 3/31
RocknRolla 3/2
Rocky: The Undisputed Collection 11/2
Rocky Balboa
Romancing the Stone: Special Edition
Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
Rudy
The Ruins: Unrated
Saturday Night Fever: 30th Anniversary Edition 5/8
Scenic National Parks
The Seventh Seal (Criterion) 9/2
The Silence of the Lambs 3/31
Sleeping Beauty: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
Sleuth
Slumdog Millionaire 5/28
Shine a Light
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition 10/2
The Soloist 9/2
South Pacific 3/31
South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 9/30
Spears & Munsil's High Definition Benchmark 4/14
Speed
Speed Racer
Spider-Man: The High Definition Trilogy
Starman 9/2
Starship Troopers
STAR TREK 11/6
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 4/17
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2 9/24
Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection 5/14
Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection 9/28
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Sting: Bring on the Night
Stranger Than Fiction: Special Edition
The Sum of All Fears
Sunshine
Swing Vote
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense 9/23
Taken: Extended Cut 6/8
Taken (Barrie's review) 5/28
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - The Complete First Season
That's Entertainment: The Complete Collection
The Thing
Things We Lost in the Fire
The Thirteenth Floor 5/28
Thunderball
Thunderball (Barrie's review)
Top Gun: Special Collector's Edition
Trading Places
Transformers
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 10/29
Trick 'r Treat 10/30
Tropic Thunder: Director's Cut
U-571
Ultraviolet
Unfaithful
The Uninvited 5/19
The Universe: The Complete Season One
Valkyrie 6/10
Valkyrie (Barrie's review) 5/28
Wall-E: 3-Disc
Wall Street
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
Wayne's World 5/15
Wayne's World 2 5/15
What Doesn't Kill You 9/2
When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling
Woodstock: 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition 6/23
The Wrestler 6/8
The X-Files: I Want to Believe
X-Men Origins: Wolverine 9/25
Yukikaze
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman 9/23


HD-DVD Format Reviews:

300 (HTF)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Apollo 13 (Barrie's review)
Apollo 13 (Bill's review)
Babel
Batman Begins
Battle of the Bulge
Black Rain
Blade Runner: The Final Cut - 5-Disc (both HD-DVD versions)
Blood Diamond
Bullitt
Casablanca
Casino
A Christmas Story
The Departed
The Dirty Dozen
Dog Day Afternoon
Field of Dreams
Flags of Our Fathers
Forbidden Planet
Freedom Writers
The Getaway
Grand Prix
Heroes: Season 1 (HTF)
The Interpreter
King Kong
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The Last Samurai
Mission: Impossible III
Mutiny on the Bounty
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Payback: Straight Up - The Director's Cut
Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Pitch Black: Unrated Director's Cut
Planet Earth: The Complete Series
The Polar Express
Reds: 25th Anniversary Edition
Rio Bravo
The Searchers
Serenity
Spartacus
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season One Remastered
TMNT (HTF)
Trading Places
Transformers
U-571
The Ultimate Matrix Collection
Unforgiven
The Wizard of Oz: 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition 9/29
World Trade Center
Zødiac: 2-Disc Director's Cut


D-VHS Format Reviews:

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Terminator 2: Judgement Day
U-571
X-Men
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