The DMP-BDT300 is the first Blu-Ray 3D compatible player Digital Versus had a chance to test.  The DMP-BDT300 is a good player but has its limits. Its multimedia player only plays SD and HD DivX (as well as JPEGs and MP3s) and we found the SD upscaling a little hard. Read full review @ Digital Versus.

But that doesn’t meant it isn’t a great week, as there are a number of titles to get excited about this week including what is easily the biggest in National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets.

Here goes the list of the 14 new titles:

• Anger Management (Sony)

• Company (2007) (Image)
• Face/Off (Paramount)
• National Treasure (Buena Vista)
• National Treasure/National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Two-Pack) (Walt Disney)
• National Treasure: Book of Secrets (Walt Disney)
• Nature: Desert Lions (Questar)
• Nature: In the Valley of the Wolves (Questar)
• Nature: Shark Mountain (Questar)
• Nature: Under Antarctic ice (Questar)
• Next (Paramount)
• Short Circuit (Image)
• V for Vendetta (Warner)
• WWE: Wrestlemania XXIV (WWE)

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Some people don’t think it’s worth it to replace a perfectly good DVD with a Blu-ray disc, while others feel it’s like enjoying the movie for the first time all over again. Either way, Disney hopes that the biggest title this week, The Chronicles of Narnia, will get you primed up for the sequel due out in theaters this Summer.

Total Blu-ray titles: 532

Blu-ray

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Fox)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (Disney)
• Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World (Fox)
• Mrs. Doubtfire (Fox)
• Shinobi (FUNimation)
• Untraceable (Sony)
• Youth Without Youth (Sony)

* Blu-ray total does not reflect 32 Paramount titles that were previously officially available.

Source: EngadgetHD

With the latest releases the Blu-ray family counts 525 members, which we hope will grow more rapidly in months to come… And now, the list:

• The Air I Breathe (Image)
• The Devil’s Own (Sony)
• First Sunday (Sony)
• Helvetica (Plexifilm)
• Helvetica (Limited Edition) (Plexifilm)
• Ozzfest: 10th Anniversary (Warner Music Group)
• P.S. I Love You (Warner)
• Saawariya (Sony)
• Shall We Dance? (Walt Disney)
• Twister (Warner)

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We have two sub-par horror flicks with One Missed Call having an unbelievably low IMDB score of 2.8 out of 10 and Sublime is pretty pitiful itself at 5.2. Your best bet this week is the Global Warming documentary from National Geographic, which looks interesting but is no Planet Earth.

We are only hoping that the next week will be more exciting…

The list for Blu-ray movies now include 508 titles, a the newest are as follow:

Blu-ray

* National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World (National Geographic)
* One Missed Call (Warner)
* The Orphanage (New Line)
* Sublime (Warner)

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Blu-ray test disc will help enthusiasts and HDTV owners get the best possible picture with tools available on this disc, which is always good.  We have to admit that we don’t know what the difference between this long over due version, and the one previously available on HD DVD, though.

In the lines below you can view the full list. Total number for Blu-ray is now 478, which does not reflect 20 Paramount titles that were previously available.

Blu-ray

• Bonnie & Clyde (Warner)
• Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics (DVD International)
• Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opus Arte)
• Naked Beneath the Water (Phoenix Group)
• Steep (Sony)

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The option could vary between a Blu-ray drive built-in to an Xbox 360 console or an external peripheral.

Microsoft Corp. in Feb. said that will end the production of the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player following an announcement from Toshiba Corp. that it will exit the HD DVD business.

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If you’re looking for a good price, this could be the time to jump in. “The prices of Blu-ray players were forced down by the war with HD DVD,” said Richard Doherty, research director of Envisioneering Group. That price, which headed downward during the holiday buying season, is now about $400 for a mainstream Blu-ray player. “Don’t be surprised if they start to go up this summer,” Doherty said.

Manufacturers of the players, such as Sony Corp. and Panasonic, will justify the higher prices with added features, he said. Basic models might become hard to find.

“I would not rule out Sony coming out with a model that has network video,” Doherty said. “You could take your vacation videos and send them right to someone’s HDTV.” Another possible enhancement — a jukebox-type player that could be loaded with multiple Blu-ray discs. By the end of the year, upgraded Blu-ray 2.0 players are expected to hit stores with online connectivity as a standard feature.If you don’t care about having the latest and greatest, this might be the time to buy.

Still, no matter what enhancements come along, prices on consumer electronic goods always seem to head down eventually.Take, for example, DVD players that sold for $1,000 and more when introduced in the United States in 1997. Now they’re commonly available for less than $50.But Doherty thinks prices for Blu-ray machines will not plunge quickly.“This is a really advanced laser system.”

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Blu-ray

• Deadliest Catch: Season 3 (Discovery Channel)
• Across the Universe (Sony)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Warner)
• The Brave One (Warner)
• Breaker Morant (Image)
• Celine Dion: A New Day… Live in Las Vegas (Sony BMG)
• Crimson Tide (Buena Vista)
• The Jane Austen Book Club (Sony)
• Me, Myself & Irene (Fox)
• Wall Street (Fox)

HD DVD

• Deadliest Catch: Season 3 (Discovery Channel)
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Universal)
• Naked Beneath the Water (Phoenix Group)

HD DVD 384 vs Blu-ray 437*
* Blu-ray count does not reflect 32 Paramount titles that were previously available.

Source: EngadgetHD