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Monday, 08 May 2017 17:44

AACS 2.0 encryption may be cracked, plus Song to Song set for 4K & Sony reveals its 1st Dolby Vision title

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Well, it appears that AACS 2.0 encryption used in 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray releases may have been broken by digital pirates. The first torrent ripped from a UHD disc has appeared online in the past week. It’s Sony’s The Smurfs 2 of all things. You can read more here on PC Magazine. The file is a whopping 53GB in size, however, so I’m not sure who would ever want to download such a thing. Still, it’s interesting news nonetheless.

Also today, we’ve learned that Resident Evil: Vendetta, which was recently announced by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 7/18, will be the studio’s first 4K title to feature Dolby Vision HDR. [Read on here…]

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While we’re speaking of 4K, it turns out that Broad Green Pictures’ recently announced 7/4 release of director Terrence Malick’s Song to Song will include a 4K UHD SKU in addition to Blu-ray and DVD. Good news, but frankly we’d rather see the studio release his recent IMAX film Voyage of Time on the format instead. Perhaps that will be forthcoming as well.

Finally today, Tim has a trio of new Blu-ray reviews for you to check out including The Skull from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, Mill Creek Entertainment’s Pulse (1988), and a new version of Fright Night released by Eureka in the UK that’s region free for those of you who may have missed out on Twilight Time’s outstanding recent limited editions. Do give them a look.

That’s all for now. Stay tuned…

- Bill Hunt