Blu-ray is the new frontier in viewing movies at home in the best high definition quality out there. DVDs are slowly becoming video cassettes. With big, bolstering and grand, flat screen TVs that take up a wall panel, you have got to watch your movies in the best quality. Available on blu-ray for the holidays now are some classy and snazzy titles that will light up your room.
Quentin Tarantino's martial arts western set of Kill Bill, volumes 1 and 2 are dazzling on blu-ray. The colors are exceptionally vivid and vibrant, making the geysers of blood spewed from bodies look stunning. The sound is uncompressed and will hook you into the onslaught of violence up on the screen. The set is loaded with bonus features, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews, trailers and a whole bunch more.
The most phenomenal ghost story in recent years hits your blu-ray discs. This is none other than the gripping and haunting The Sixth Sense, with a finale that will leave you ghost faced pale. This surprise blockbuster has Oscar written all over it with acting, writing and directional jobs being acknowledged in this chilling atmosphere. You need to own one of the most successful thrillers of all time.
Pirates of the Caribbean is one of the most successful blockbuster trilogies and is visually stunning and inventive on screen. Everyone has their sea legs intact as we follow the grimy pirates on the fierce, open, wavy waters of the murky deep, battling and sailing until our heart's content. This series captures irreverent humor and high flying acrobatic action on the grandest scale of this epic. The adventure is brought to your home in a revolutionary new format that brings the high seas to life.
The topsy turvy series that is mind bending and most certainly always thinks out of the box, Lost, is now available on blu-ray. The serene, tropical island has beautiful, ebbing, clear waves and the quality is so crystal you can see every grain of the white, beached sand. You can uncover the mysteries in the highest of definition of these lost castaways and watch their haunting fates determined.
In the second installment of C.S. Lewis's famed novels, the fantasy comes to life yet again with Prince Caspian. The magical world is simply enchanting on the intrepid journey to restore peace and order to a world that is in dire need of a hero to rise. It will be sure to have all members of the family's faces glowing.
One more must have would be Sleeping Beauty, probably one of the most acclaimed fairy tales Disney has to offer. It's been reworked to provide a wondrous image on blu-ray in this 50th Anniversary edition that is lavish and really makes your eyes widen. The moving illustrations come to life in this beautiful, animated spectacle.
Movies will never look so magnificent as they do with blu-ray. These films will make you marvel, not only at the quality, but perhaps make you notice elements of the film that would have gone unnoticed before. Blu-ray is the wave of the future. Get on board.
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