Samsung will no longer make 4K Blu-ray players

Samsung has been the first to introduce Blu-ray player in the industry, but now the company is ready to let go of the segment. It has announced that it would no longer release any new Blu-ray hardware. The last time Samsung released a new Blu-ray player was in 2017. There were reportedly plans to release a new model this year, but that isn't going to happen now.

Source: Tech Spot

Game of Thrones Season 6 Blu-Ray out today with deleted scenes and extra features

The Game of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season is now available and features what many believe to be the best battle episode ever shot on TV (Battle of the Bastards) plus various deleted scenes and special features in glorious Blu-Ray resolution.

Game of Thrones: The Complete Sixth Season continues the show's use of Dolby Atmos (with a Dolby TrueHD 7.1 core) but the default to the also included Dolby Digital 5.1 track. Below is a complete list of the special features on the Blu-Ray.

 
·   In-Episode Guide –
·   Histories and Lore –
·   The Old Way: narrated by Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk)
·   The Kingsmoot: narrated by Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk)
·   The Sunset Sea: narrated by Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbæk)
·   War of the Ninepenny Kings: narrated by Brother Ray (Ian McShane)
·   The Great Tourney at Harrenhal: narrated by Meera Reed (Ellie Kendrick)
·   Robert’s Rebellion: narrated by Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau)
·   Vaes Dothrak: narrated by Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen)
·   The Dothraki: narrated by Jorah Mormont (Iain Glen)
·   Northern Allegiances to House Stark: narrated by Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner)
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·   Brotherhood Without Banners: narrated by Thoros of Myr (Paul Kaye)
·   Oldtown: narrated by Grand Maester Pycelle (Julian Glover) and Qyburn (Anton Lesser)
·   House Dayne: narrated by Young Ned Stark (Robert Aramayo)
·   The Little Birds: narrated by Lord Varys (Conleth Hill)
·   Knights of the Vale: narrated by Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish (Aidan Gillen)
·   House Tarly: narrated by Randyll Tarly (James Faulkner)
·   Riverrun: narrated by Brynden ‘the Blackfish’ Tully (Clive Russell)
·   Great Sept of Baelor: narrated by the High Sparrow (Jonathan Pryce)

Review: HBO's Vinyl Season 1

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Rock and roll, man. Like the first time you heard it. It’s fast, it’s dirty, it smashes you over the head.

                                                                                   - Richie Finestra

Vinyl is one of the most ambitious and heralded projects to make it to HBO. This series, which was recently renewed and then not renewed, brings together the star power of Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, who are co-producers of this gritty, soulful and  often violent look back at the music industry as it was in 1973 when punk, hip-hop and disco were slowly surfacing in New York City.

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There won’t be an extended cut for ‘The Force Awakens’ Blu-ray edition

If you were thinking scoring the Blu-ray version of Star Wars: The Force Awakens will score you extra footage you didn’t see in the cinema, well you thought wrong. The film’s director J.J. Abrams has said there will be extras in the DVD/Blu-ray release but these will come in the form of deleted scenes from the movie. He hasn’t specified though how many scenes or how long these scenes will run.  Abrams said during the recent panel that the first cut of The Force Awakens clocked in at two hours and 50 minutes, which is 35 minutes longer than what we saw at the cinemas. Unfortunately, we don’t know yet when the DVD/Blu-ray editions of the new Star Wars trilogy will come out.

Source: EW + SlashGear