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The Criterion Collection has announced six titles for Blu-ray release in July. On July 12th, the independent studio will release Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993). A week later, it will release The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958) and Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946)

Announced back at CEDIA, Pioneer's 3D Blu-ray players are shipping now.

A few months back, Pioneer announced its foray into 3D Blu-ray players with the BDP-430 and a pair of Elite models, the BDP-41FD and BDP-43FD. Today those players are ready to ship.

It is a little-known fact that in the early years of Dreamworks Animation, Shrek was the ugly duckling, while other projects like The Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado got all the attention. However, this ogre tale eventually became the studio's major breadwinner, spawning a billion-dollar four-part franchise that is coming out on Blu-ray, under the title Shrek: The Whole Story. B

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has officially announced The Bridge on the River Kwai on a Collector's Edition Blu-ray/DVD set, with a release date of November 2. This WWII classic, winner of seven Academy Awards, has received a 4K restoration from the original negatives, with newly-restored 5.1 audio

Samsung announced that, in order to get customers started with stereoscopic home cinema, the 3D version of the 2009 Dreamworks Animation blockbuster Monsters vs. Aliens will be available exclusively bundled...