HD DVD and Blu-ray releases on December 23rd and 26th, 2007

The holidays always get us out of whack, not only are movies released on two different days, but the post is in the middle of the week. Either way, there aren't that many titles, but all those with a new HD DVD player for Christmas yesterday will be happy to enjoy the biggest title this week; The Kingdom. Meanwhile, new Blu-ray fans can laugh in HD at the latest installment of Rush Hour -- while red has to wait to see it, presumably due to the lack of region coding on HD DVD. This competes the list for HD DVD going into CES, but blu has a few more next week, as they push the first profile 1.1 title to just before the big show.

HD DVD 370 vs Blu-ray 398*

Blu-ray

• Rush Hour 3 (New Line)
• Pan's Labyrinth (New Line)

HD DVD

• Cat People (1982) (Universal)
• Eastern Promises (Universal)
• The Kingdom (2007) (Universal)
• Timecop (Universal)
• The Heartbreak Kid (DreamWorks)
• Pan's Labyrinth (New Line)

* Blu-ray total does not reflect 32 Paramount titles that were previously available.

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