DVD Releases October 7, 2008 : New DVD Releases

Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)
Directed by Clyde Geronimi
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Awaken your senses to the majesty of SLEEPING BEAUTY, Walt Disney's classic fairy tale. See more than you've ever seen before through the magic of state-of-the-art technology, and experience this groundbreaking film restored beyond its original brilliance, in the way Walt envisioned it pristine, beautiful, utterly breathtaking. SLEEPING BEAUTY will transform your home into a fantastic world your family will want to experience again and again.

In the original story, Princess Aurora sleeps for 100 years before being awakened by a prince's kiss. In the Disney version, Prince Philip comes to her rescue much sooner.
George Brun's orchestral score, which was nominated for an Academy Award, expertly blended famous themes from Tchaikovsky's ballet.
With a budget that exceeded $6 million in 1959, this was Walt Disney's most lavish and expensive animated feature to date.
Determined to make the characters as realistic as possible, Disney had a live action film shot with actors posing as Sleeping Beauty, the Prince, and Maleficent, for the animators to use.
New York Times critic Bosley Crowther called the fight between Prince Philip and Maleficent the noisiest and scariest go-round he (Disney) has ever put into one of his films.
All-New Digital Restoration With Enhanced Picture And Sound
All-New 5.1 Disney Enhanced Home Theater Surround Sound
All-New Once Upon A Dream Music Video, Performed By HANNAH MONTANA'S Emily Osment
Sleeping Beauty Castle Walkthrough A Fully Immersive Virtual Tour
All-New Enhanced Dance Game With Help From Briar Rose's Forest Friends, You Can Learn How To Dance
Never-Before-Seen Alternate Opening
Deleted Songs
All-New Making Of SLEEPING BEAUTY Featurette
And Much, Much More

Sleeping Beauty (Two-Disc Platinum Edition)

30 Rock: Season 2
From Universal Studios
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Relive the second season of the Primetime Emmy® Award-winning comedy 30 Rock, the show that the guy who writes stuff on DVD boxes calls “my current assignment” and that Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly has named “simply the best TV.” Created by Golden Globe® and SAG Award winner Tina Fey, 30 Rock features Fey (as TV writer Liz Lemon), Golden Globe® and SAG Award winner Alec Baldwin (as corporate executive Jack Donaghy), Tracy Morgan and Jane Krakowski (as Lemon’s unpredictable stars, Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney) and Jack McBrayer (as the naive NBC page Kenneth Parcell). Co-workers and friends, they are all trying to balance work and life, with the inevitable result of failed relationships, disastrous parties, at-work drunkenness, hard-core coffee addiction, world-class sandwich eating and occasional attempts to chop down Christmas trees. Join in the behind-the-scenes fun with lots of exclusive content and all fifteen episodes of the acclaimed second season of 30 Rock from executive producer Lorne Michaels.

30 Rock: Season 2

The Simpsons - The Complete Eleventh Season
From 20th Century Fox
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Simpsons Season 11 includes all 22 episodes from the 11th season and bonus material on all 4 discs.

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Amazon Sales Rank: #9 in DVD
Released on: 2008-10-07
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Formats: DVD-Video, NTSC
Original language: Spanish, English
Number of discs: 4
Running time: 484 minutes

The Simpsons - The Complete Eleventh Season

How I Met Your Mother - Season Three
From 20th Century Fox
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"Friends" minus one. The series is narrated through flashbacks from the future about the 5 friends and their dating misadventures

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Amazon Sales Rank: #24 in DVD
Released on: 2008-10-07
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Formats: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Original language: English
Number of discs: 3
Running time: 429 minutes

How I Met Your Mother - Season Three

The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 4: 1943-1945
From Sony Pictures
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The hilarious slapstick antics of Larry, Moe and Curly are back in digitally re-mastered versions of The Three Stooges shorts originally created from 1943 - 1945. The set includes, in original release order, all 21 complete shorts filmed during these years.

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Amazon Sales Rank: #65 in DVD
Released on: 2008-10-07
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Formats: AC-3, Black & White, Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Original language: English
Subtitled in: English, French
Dubbed in: French
Number of discs: 2

The Three Stooges Collection, Vol. 4: 1943-1945

Midsomer Murders Set 11
From Acorn Media
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What evil lurks beyond the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer…

The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby with Jason Hughes (This Life) as his earnest, efficient protégé, Detective Constable Ben Jones. Guest stars include George Baker, Elizabeth Spriggs, Simon Callow, Joss Ackland, Siân Phillips, Dermot Crowley, and Julia McKenzie.

THE MYSTERIES
The House in the Woods -- According to local legend, Winyard is haunted—and it lives up to its reputation when a young couple dies on the property in a grisly fashion.
Dead Letters -- As Midsomer Barton celebrates Oak Apple Week, the mother of a former festival queen drowns herself. But is it really suicide?
Vixen’s Run -- At a family gathering, thrice-married baronet Freddy Butler keels over dead, leaving an estate worth killing for.
Down Among the Dead Men -- The shotgun slaying of accountant Martin Barrett leads Barnaby and Jones on a trail of blackmail.

DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE Fascinating Facts, The Killings at Badger’s Drift connection, Caroline Graham biography, production notes, and cast filmographies.

Midsomer Murders Set 11

Mission Impossible - The Fifth TV Season
Directed by Reza Badiyi, Barry Crane, Leslie H. Martinson, Max Hodge, Paul Krasny
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Amazon Sales Rank: #139 in DVD
Released on: 2008-10-07
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Formats: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Original language: English
Number of discs: 6
Running time: 1155 minutes