While many industry observers are predicting that the planned December 9 release of The Dark Knight on DVD will become the year’s biggest video hit, a few others suggest that next Tuesday’s release of Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E should not be overlooked. They point out that animated features have a long history of dominance in home-video sales and that Wall-e is one of the few that holds as much appeal for adults as it does for children. Meanwhile, websites that focus on high-definition fare have unanimously endorsed the Blu-ray version of Wall-e as the HD gold standard. On dvdtown.com, James Plath begins his review of the Blu-ray release with the single word “Wow.” He calls the picture detail “remarkable” and says that it often displays a “pleasing” 3-D quality that gives the illusion of depth “without ‘popping’ the figures out at you as if you were watching a film with those funny cardboard glasses.” On bluray.com, Ben Williams calls the video quality “flawless … simply stunning.” He adds: “Wall-e is as perfect and stunning on Blu-ray as anyone could have hoped.” On highdefdigest.com, Peter M. Bracke calls the Wall-e Blu-ray package “a truly ground-breaking achievement.” He goes on to write that it is “guaranteed to rank as a new demo disc of choice. … Pixar has crowed that there is not a pixel out of place, and the hyperbole is justified. Wall-E is a visual masterpiece.”While many industry observers are predicting that the planned December 9 release of The Dark Knight on DVD will become the year’s biggest video hit, a few others suggest that next Tuesday’s release of Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E should not be overlooked. They point out that animated features have a long history of dominance in home-video sales and that Wall-e is one of the few that holds as much appeal for adults as it does for children. Meanwhile, websites that focus on high-definition fare have unanimously endorsed the Blu-ray version of Wall-e as the HD gold standard. On dvdtown.com, James Plath begins his review of the Blu-ray release with the single word “Wow.” He calls the picture detail “remarkable” and says that it often displays a “pleasing” 3-D quality that gives the illusion of depth “without ‘popping’ the figures out at you as if you were watching a film with those funny cardboard glasses.” On bluray.com, Ben Williams calls the video quality “flawless … simply stunning.” He adds: “Wall-e is as perfect and stunning on Blu-ray as anyone could have hoped.” On highdefdigest.com, Peter M. Bracke calls the Wall-e Blu-ray package “a truly ground-breaking achievement.” He goes on to write that it is “guaranteed to rank as a new demo disc of choice. … Pixar has crowed that there is not a pixel out of place, and the hyperbole is justified. Wall-E is a visual masterpiece.”

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