R5 Blu-Ray Release Dates (March 2010 – November 2010)

Check the R5 Release Dates page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010 and include DVD dates).

March 2010
Twilight: New Moon – 22nd March 2010
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – 23rd March 2010
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – 23rd March 2010
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – 23rd March 2010
Shutter Island – 25th March 2010
Sherlock Holmes – 30th March 2010

May 2010
Tooth Fairy – 20th May 2010

June 2010
My Name Is Khan – 17th June 2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – 17th June 2010
The Lovely Bones – June 2010
The Wolfman – June 2010

July 2010
Clash of the Titans – July 2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – July 2010
Green Zone – July 2010
Get Him to the Greek – July 2010

August 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 26th August 2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street – August 2010

September 2010
Date Night – 30th September 2010
Marmaduke – 30th September 2010
Robin Hood – September 2010
Sex and the City 2 – September 2010

October 2010
The A-Team – 21st October 2010
Jonah Hex – October 2010
Repo Men – October 2010

November 2010
Predators – 11th November 2010
Iron Man 2 – November 2010
How to Train Your Dragon – November 2010
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore – November 2010
The Last Airbender – November 2010
Shrek Forever After – November 2010

Updated: 16th March 2010

For the rest of the dates go to http://tinyurl.com/r5dates

Note: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.

R5 DVD Release Dates (March 2010 – August 2010)

Check the R5 Release Dates page for the latest release dates. (Dates go up to December 2010 and include Blu-Ray dates).

March 2010
Up in the Air – 9th March 2010
The Slammin’ Salmon – 11th March 2010
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief – 11th March 2010
Triage – 11th March 2010
Twilight: New Moon – 22nd March 2010
Amelia – 25th March 2010
Shutter Island – 25th March 2010
Transylmania – 25th March 2010
Sherlock Holmes – 30th March 2010

April 2010
Frozen – 1st April 2010
Brothers – 8th April 2010
The Descent: Part 2 – 8th April 2010
The Crazies – 15th April 2010
The Book of Eli – 15th April 2010
The Bounty Hunter – 15th April 2010
L’immortel – 29th April 2010
Avatar – April 2010
The Road – April 2010
Costa Rican Summer – April 2010
The Boys Are Back – April 2010
L’arnacoeur – April 2010

May 2010
Kick-Ass – 7th May 2010
Date Night – 13th May 2010
Valentine’s Day – 18th May 2010
The Blind Side – 18th May 2010
Fish Tank – May 2010
Everybody’s Fine – May 2010

June 2010
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps – 3rd June 2010
My Name Is Khan – 10th June 2010
When in Rome – June 15th June 2010
Cop Out – June 2010
The Lovely Bones – June 2010
Invictus – June 2010
The Wolfman – June 2010

July 2010
Marmaduke – 1st July 2010
The A-Team – 8th July 2010
Clash of the Titans – July 2010
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang – July 2010
Green Zone – July 2010
She’s Out of My League – July 2010
An Invisible Sign of My Own – July 2010

August 2010
Knight and Day – 5th August 2010
Predators – 12th August 2010
Unthinkable – 19th August 2010
A Nightmare on Elm Street – August 2010

September 2010
Barbie Fashion Fairytale – September 2010
Young Americans – September 2010
Robin Hood – September 2010
Sex and the City 2 – September 2010
13 – September 2010

October 2010
Leap Year – October 2010
Jonah Hex – October 2010
Repo Men – October 2010
Get Him to the Greek – October 2010
The Killer Inside Me – October 2010

November 2010
Despicable Me – November 2010
Iron Man 2 – November 2010
How to Train Your Dragon – November 2010
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore – November 2010
The Last Airbender – November 2010
Shrek Forever After – November 2010

Updated: 16th March 2010

For the rest of the dates go to http://tinyurl.com/r5dates

Note: not all dates are 100% accurate and are likely to vary, please keep checking back for updated release dates.

App Reviews, Video Reviews, Product Reviews & A Whole Lot More..

So a lot of you will have realised I haven’t been posting for the last month, this isn’t due to me being lazy it’s because I’ve been very busy, as always. But I’ve been coming up with new ways that I can interact with you, the reader; such as app reviews, video reviews and a lot more blog posts.

I endeavour to do 2 blog posts a day if not more, maybe an app review every 2 days and a video review once a week. The product review part might be products I’ve purchased or if someone has sent it in, a company has sent me a product for review and although they sent it a while ago I will be posting the review soon. Also any other companies who wish to send in a product feel free to get in touch.

I will hopefully be sorting out the blog and checking through everything too and might be setting up the blog on my new website too. So there’s a lot of things coming very soon so keep your eyes peeled and apologies once again for the lack of posts recently. Expect a lot more soon!

Lack of Posts

I would just like to take the time to apologise to my readers for not updating my blog since the iPad announcements, it’s not that I’ve stopped writing to my blog but the fact that I’ve been so busy with college work and designing a website for a organisation. I’ve had a week off from college but I’ve had very little time to post to my blog but now that I’ve finished the website and I won’t be getting as much college work I shuld be able to update the blog.

The updates probably won’t be always that frequent as I have to start revising for my May exams soon but I will still be updating the blog. I’m unsure if I should back log the news or not because this will take a long time but then again you will most likely know most of the news by now so there isn’t much point.

I also plan on start doing reviews of apps soon and had a review item sent in by a company which I’ve had for a long time now and just haven’t got round to reviewing it so expect that soon too. Also if your a company who wants me to write a review get in touch by going to the about page.

Thanks for your time and expect updates soon!

Apple Announces iBook App for iPad

Apple today announced the iBook app for the iPad tablet device. It will offer books and content from many big names in publishing and also an interesting note is that it uses the ePub format, which is not proprietary, so is there a possiblity of creating your own books for the device if the content isn’t available on the store?

Apple has 4 big partners with the iPad: Penguin, Macmillion, Simon & Shuster and more. This will give a good start to the release of the iPad and it’s lineup of books.

Apple iPad Specs

iPad
The new Apple iPad specs:

  • 16, 32 and 64GB models.
  • 802.11n WiFi
  • .5 inches thin
  • 1.5 pounds
  • 9.7 inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
  • 1024×768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
  • Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
  • Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR
  • 1GHz Apple Chip
  • Supports OpenGLS
  • Pixel Double to run app’s at double size or original.
  • Accelerometer
  • Compass
  • iBook (Apple’s eBook reader) [uses the ePub format for the iBook app, which means it’s open.]
  • 3G
  • 720p HD Video Playback
  • 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
  • $14.99 for 250MB of data
  • $29.99 for unlimited
  • Free use of AT&T WiFi Hotspots
  • No contract
  • International deals by June
  • iPad 3G models are unlocked
  • WiFi model shipping in 60 days, worldwide.
  • 3G model shipping in 90 days.

Pricing (WiFi)

  • 16GB $499 (£309)
  • 32GB $599 (£370)
  • 64GB $699 (£433)

Pricing (WiFi & 3G)

  • 16GB $629 (£389)
  • 32GB $729 (£451)
  • 64GB $829 (£513)

Note: British prices have not been released by Apple yet and they are only converted from US Dollars to give people an idea of price.

Apple iPad Officially Announced

Steve Jobs has just officially announced the iPad, the tablet device which has been leaked recently is now a reality. And due to popular rumor it is in appearance an oversized iPhone/iPod Touch.

It runs a modified version of the iPhone OS and runs Mobile Safari as shown at the event, but with no Flash.

Apple iPad

The iPad comes as follows:

  • 16, 32 and 64GB models.
  • 802.11n WiFi
  • .5 inches thin
  • 1.5 pounds
  • 9.7 inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology
  • 1024×768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi)
  • Fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating
  • Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR
  • 1GHz Apple Chip
  • Supports OpenGLS
  • Pixel Double to run app’s at double size or original.
  • Accelerometer
  • Compass
  • iBook (Apple’s eBook reader) [uses the ePub format for the iBook app, which means it’s open.]
  • 3G
  • 720p HD Video Playback
  • 3.5-mm stereo headphone jack
  • $14.99 for 250MB of data
  • $29.99 for unlimited
  • Free use of AT&T WiFi Hotspots
  • No contract
  • International deals by June
  • iPad 3G models are unlocked
  • WiFi model shipping in 60 days, worldwide.
  • 3G model shipping in 90 days.

Pricing (WiFi)

  • 16GB $499 (£309)
  • 32GB $599 (£370)
  • 64GB $699 (£433)

Pricing (WiFi & 3G)

  • 16GB $629 (£389)
  • 32GB $729 (£451)
  • 64GB $829 (£513)

Note: British prices have not been released by Apple yet and they are only converted from US Dollars to give people an idea of price.

iPad iWork


Live Coverage Of Apple Event 27/1/2010

All times are at GMT (London).

5:48 PM: Everyone is getting seated and the event will start in 12 minutes.

6:00 PM: The lights have gone down.

6:02 PM: “We want to kick of 2010 by introducing a magical and revolutionary product today… but first I have a few updates.”

6:05 PM: “Next update, the app store. We have over 140,000 apps, and a few weeks ago we announced a user downloaded 3 billion apps.”

6:08 PM: “SO all of us use laptops and smartphones… the question has arisen; is there room for something in the middle. We’ve wondered for years as well — in order to create that category, they have to be far better at doing some key tasks… better than the laptop, better than the smartphone.”

6:10 PM: “We think we’ve got something that is better. And we call it the iPad.”

6:28 PM: “Let’s go back to the hardware.” .5 inches thin, 1.5 pounds — 9.7 inch IPS display

6:28 PM: Full capacitive multitouch

6:29 PM: “It’s powered by our own silicon. The 1GHz Apple A4 chip. It screams.”

6:29 PM: Available in 16GB, 32 and 64GB models.

Apple iPad

6:29 PM: 802.11n WiFi, Speaker, Microphone, 30-pin connector and 10 hours of battery life, up to a month on standby. Bluetooth 2.1+ EDR.

6:54 PM: Apple eBook reader app called iBook.

6:55 PM: Apple uses the ePub format for the iBook app, which means it’s open.

7:13 PM: It syncs just like the iPhone and comes with 3G.

7:14 PM: $14.99 for 250MB of data or $29.99 for unlimited. Free use of AT&T WiFi Hotspots. No contract. International deals by June. iPad 3G models are unlocked.

7:17 PM: “WiFI plus 3G if you want it. So iPad. It’s phenomenal. Email is fantastic, best device for photos, great for music, great for video. It runs almost all of the 140k apps on the app store, as well as a whole new generation of apps.”

iPad Pricing

7:20 PM: “So $499 for 16GB of iPad. That’s our base model. 32GB is $599, 64GB is $799. 3G models cost an extra $130. $629, 729, and 829 with 3G.”

7:20 PM: “We will be shipping these in 60 days. 3G models will ship in 90 days.”

Apple Tablet Pictures Leaked?

Engadget have received some pictures, which they cannot confirm as being real but they do look real, of the upcoming Apple Tablet. It’s only just over an hour now until the event begins so it won’t be long until we find out.

Here’s what Engadget posted:

we just got two very interesting images of what certainly looks like a prototype Apple tablet, or what could be the tablet bolted down to a table. It’s big — really big — and it’s running what clearly looks like an iPhone app, although we’ve never seen an iPhone app with that interface or at that resolution before. We also see a WiFi icon and a cell service indicator, although tragically there’s no carrier listed.

Apple Tablet Prototype w/ iPhone

So the few picture leaked do look a lot like people thought which is a large iPhone but Steve Troughton-Smith had some interesting ideas about the images.

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So from what we have seen we’re guessing the resolution might be around 640×1024, that the picture shows a non-OLED device, however this doesn’t rule one out. And that Apple are still using Google Maps for the device.

The images show an interesting case around the side, this could be for security or just to disguise the device, as some people over at iPhone Alley spotted a device running a modified version of Mac OS X on a device which was thought to be the new tablet.