Quite a lot of announcements from Paramount today, via DVD Times.

Firstly in July we will see a new wave of Paramount titles. There will be four titles arriving on 29th July 2008 - Beowulf Director’s Cut, Patriot Games, The Sum of All Fears and Top Gun. I am a little surprised that they didn’t do the Jack Ryan Box, but this is a good start none the less. Beowulf will feature Dolby True HD 5.1 Surround though it seems to have been dropped from Top Gun, which perhaps is an error since, if I recall correctly, the original release information in 2007 had lossless audio for Top Gun and for the most part Paramount does not seem to have re-authored these titles.

Moving on to September 2nd, we of course have Transformers coming out. There are a lot of new details though not all of the features are fixed yet. Interesting to see LPCM and Dolby TrueHD on this one. Making up for the lack of lossless audio on the HD DVD perhaps! It also appears that all of the extras are high definition video - something I hope to see more of moving forward.

Later in September we have more titles from DreamWorks Animation. One catch up title in the form of Shrek 3 and also Madagascar on September 16th. To be honest I thought Shrek 3 was pretty bad, though I imagine it will look nice. Madagascar on the other hand was quite fun and would stand up better to repeat watching in my opinion, partly due to an excellent performance from Sacha Baron Cohen, also known as Ali G or Borat.

While there is little information on the specs, I am sure that DreamWorks animation will do their best to have pristine looking and sounding releases. Now, bring on the original Shrek!

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