Media Decoder Blog: 'Lion King' Has New Life, in Theaters and at Home

The raunchy adult comedy “Ted” beat a pair of action films in pre-holiday sales of DVD and Blu-ray discs, with humor trumping the final installment of director Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, “The Dark Knight Rises,” and newcomer “The Bourne Legacy” as well as the animated “Ice Age: Continental Drift.” But “Ted” barely cracked the top 10 when it came to DVD and Blu-ray rentals.

By Conrad Schickedanz:On February 28, 2012, Dreamworks Animation (DWA) reported fourth quarter and year end earnings.

The History Channel’s TV miniseries "The Bible" debuted at the top of the DVD and Blu-ray sales chart, while Oscar best picture winner "Argo" held on to the top rental spot.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Monday that it will join the Blu-ray Disc Association -- its former enemy in a bitter format war -- to make blu-ray players by year-end to tap demand for high-definition home movies.

I took the plunge and bought a Blu-ray player Monday, on sale at $300 instead of the $600 list. Since $300 was my reservation price, I derived no consumer surplus. But its absence was made up for when I logged onto Netflix to receive Blu-ray instead of DVD disks in the mail. [...]

Makers raised prices after the demise of HD-DVD, but the increases won't stick. This year Blu-ray won the bitterly fought high-definition disc war when rival HD-DVD gave up.