There wasn’t much change in the Blu-ray Disc market share or revenue for the week ending November 9th, according to Home Media Magazine.

The market share versus the top 20 DVDs remained at 8% for the week. While revenue slipped roughly 10%, it remained in the double figures, at just under $11M.

Get Smart was the top title for the week, followed by Journey to the Center of the Earth.

The ever popular The Incredible Hulk and Iron Man were followed by Kung Fu Panda, which was in 5th place despite having only one day of sales counting for the week.

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I am pretty excited about the release of WALL-E on Blu-ray.

While I hve enjoyed all the Pixar releases, this was one where I went into the cinema with pretty high expectations and they were certainly met.

To celebrate the release of the Blu-ray Disc version, I have decided to have my first give away - the prize will be the 3 Disc Edition of WALL-E on Blu-ray Disc, complete untold features and a Digital Copy of the movie.

Contest is open to US residents (sorry international folks) and a valid email address must be used so that I can contact you if you win. Your email address will be kept private of course.

While there is a ’skill question’, the contest will be decided by a random number chosen from Random.org, not judged on the quality of your response.

Ok - so here is the ’skill question’:

Aside from movie title, what is the most important feature to you on Blu-ray Disc, that helps you to choose which disc(s) to buy with your movie budget?

Answer in the comments with a valid email address to enter the contest.

Feel free to make additional comments, as long as the question is answered.

The contest closes midnight PST on Monday November 17th.

If this turns out to be a success, it could be the first of many!

Update: Comments are moderated so don’t fret if it takes a while for you comment to post.

Amazon’s Deal of the Day today is all about the Bond movies.

For the Blu-ray collecter, you can save 64% on James Bond Blu-ray Collection Six-Pack (which is a bundle of the two three packs that were released recently).

At a price of $64.95 for the bundle, that is just over $10 per movie! Great price if you decided to wait.

Titles in the 6 Pack are Dr. No, Die Another Day, Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love and Thunderball.

If you still watch DVDs, at the same link you will find the James Bond Ultimate Collector’s Set DVDs for only $89.95, a saving of 69% off retail.

Remember, this is one day only!

Another movie I enjoyed a great deal at the cinema this year was Ben Stiller’s latest comedy Tropic Thunder.

Ben has come a long way since directing Cable Guy.

Tropic Thunder has solid characters and performances, and I bet the writing contribution from Ethan Coen didn’t hurt either.

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Once again demonstrating how the BD Live enabled Blu-ray player is essentially an internet appliance connected to you home theater, Twice is reporting that Nortel and RCDb are demonstrating a new feature incorporating cell phones and BD Live Blu-ray Players.

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I made a few changes to the Home Page today to highlight the featured articles in the New Log and to add direct links to some of the more common searches people seem to perform.

I don’t know how many times I have seen forum posts here and there that ask for all the titles with 7.1 audio or which titles have Digital Copy.

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Ok, this was a long time coming I know, but hopefully it will be a good read none the less.

Not too long ago I was fortunate enough to attend a presentation at Pixar Animation Studios for the Producers Guild of America where the topic was BD Live.

I have written a featured article that you can check out here.

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A second Amazon promotion today features selected Sony titles at 45 - 54% off retail.

The sale tiles are all normally higher priced ‘Day and Date’ titles, which carry a retail of $38.95 - the promotion price is $17.95 or $21.49, depending on the title.

Titles include Reign Over Me, Rocky Balboa, The Pursuit of Happyness, 21, Gridiron Gang, The Holiday and The Covenant.

Universal Home Video has announced the Blu-ray Disc release of Serenity        for December 30th, 2008.

To be honest I am surprised that they waited this long - Firefly comes out tomorrow and that would have been an ideal tie in.

Retail will be $29.98, the Amazon price - only $21.95.

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The top 20 Blu-ray market share versus DVD dipped below 10% for the first time in a month for the week ending November 2nd, according to Home Media Magazine.

For the week that Tinker Bell was released, the market share for Blu-ray was 8%, while the revenue was down but still quite strong at $12.22M for the week.

The relatively low market share can pretty much be attributed to Tinker Bell, which was the top DVD seller but only third in the Bluray chart, beaten by Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Incredible Hulk on the High Definition format.

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