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   Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi is the retail force to be reckoned this Easter, going on sale in five different Blu-ray editions, including 3D and 4K-UHD. The Digital Bits reports it was finished as a 4K Digital Intermediate, given high dynamic range colour grades in both HDR10 and Dolby Vision, and is presented on […]

  Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has cited censorship costs for its decision to pull a Blu-ray release of a Sam Peckinpah classic. One of the controversial director’s best films, Cross of Iron, was to have gone on sale this month as part of a Classics Remastered range that includes The Dambusters and Far From the Madding Crowd. […]

PlayStation 4 users can immerse themselves in the virtual reality of Westeros’ seven kingdoms with today’s release of Sky’s streaming service Neon on the 4K games console. The Neon app can be downloaded from the PlayStation store for both the PS4 and the PS4 Pro. It allows users to not only stream Sky’s TV series and […]

Sky has expanded its deal with CBS Studios International to include exclusive rights to programming from CBS, The CW and Showtime. It’s unclear if the new “long-term volume deal” will affect shows that stream on Netflix NZ and Lightbox, or if Sky will launch another channel to accommodate the extra content. At the very least it will make […]

Sky will precede SoHo’s May 22 premiere of Twin Peaks with another chance to see the original series from 27 years ago. Seasons one and two of the 1990-91 cult hit will play back-to-back on pop up channel 210 from May 19. Inexplicably, Sky has secured an SD version of the series — despite its HD […]

  Sky will launch the Twin Peaks reboot simultaneously on its premium drama channel SoHo and streaming service Neon. Earlier it announced, “81 days, 17 hours to go” — which means it will debut here as a double-episode the same time as in the US: 2pm on May 21 (with a same-day 8.30 re-run). Like Game of […]

It will be fascinating to see how the BBC thriller Doctor Foster rates for TV1 over the course of next week. Primetime stripping or multi-night runs of serials, and cooking and renovation shows is well established but running five episodes of a drama series on consecutive nights is unprecedented here and harks back to the miniseries craze of […]

Welcome to a new spin on one of this site’s most popular features. As of today, HD Heads-Up becomes a daily digest of what’s happening in HD here and internationally. It will be updated during the day with programming alerts, occasional commentary and headlines with source links.  TV3 is pre-empting Saturday’s 7.00 HD movie Legally […]

“The short description of the miniseries is that Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon) is on his way from Seattle to Idaho when he’s in a car accident and wakes up in Wayward Pines, a plastic nightmare of a fake town from which he can’t escape. But that’s not even close to what it’s about. You […]

Lightbox is celebrating Christmas with a slew of initiatives, including a new programming deal with CBS Studios International. The premium library titles range from Deadwood, Dexter and Nurse Jackie to fare that has never aired here in HD, including House of Lies, which MediaWorks wasted on Four, and the terrific high stakes Boston crime drama […]