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...Netflix More than 60,000 DVD titles available to rent, from classics to art-house flicks to major studio releases. Digital delivery is scheduled to start early next year, but don't expect those red mailers to be phased out anytime soon...
...Galahad to rescue her from marriage to a handsome brute (Richard Chamberlain). She chooses Archie (George C. Scott), a surgeon who has just left his wife (Shirley Knight). Released in 1968, this astringent love story, which Lester (A Hard Day's Night) chopped up and brilliantly reassembled for the DVD, is full of awkward tenderness and eruptions of violence. It's a flawless, essential study of despair and compassion. Brick Rian Johnson...
...after Monty Python. TV eminences Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon star in this postmodernist jape, which keeps interrupting the novel's tale to focus on the offscreen agitations of the cast. Since the Coogan-Brydon banter gave the film much of its brio, their very funny commentary on the DVD amounts to a second deconstruction of the entertaining shambles that is Shandy...
...some reason, the first Blu-ray discs I tried in the player were spat out as unreadable. I tossed in a regular DVD, and it played just fine. Only after a day or so did the player inexplicably begin to recognize Blu-ray media. After its change of heart, I had no trouble with any discs, even ones it had previously rejected. Samsung assures me this problem can be solved with a firmware upgrade, administered via disc. The company also stated that its review samples were not from the same production run as the ones now in retail...
...When I told a friend of mine about the high-definition movie viewing afforded by Blu-ray (and by HD DVD), he wasn't impressed. He said, ?This is how it's supposed to be.? Standard DVDs may sell big, but their content is simply the wrong size for the high-definition TV sets finding their way into more and more homes across the country. One high-def disc format must win, though it's still too early to know which. There will likely be a balanced roster of titles on each side by Christmas - HD DVD anchored by Universal...