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PlayStation 5 has been available for several years now, and it’s easier than ever to find it in stock at retailers. The new-gen hardware makes big upgrades over its predecessor, letting gamers enjoy better graphics, shorter loading times, and support for the fancy DualSense controller. It’s also much more expensive than PS4, so while PS5 is better than PS4 in most regards, it might not be ideal for frugal shoppers. But is PS4 or PS5 the better choice in 2024? Does the aging PS4 really make sense to purchase right…

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Trailer #1 | Movieclips Classic TrailersThere’s already a 4K version of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock but a new version is coming soon. That’s because this year is the 40th anniversary of the seminal Trek movie’s release. The Digital Bits reports that Paramount plans to re-release Spock on May 28th; the outlet notes that it will “likely be the same remastered disc released recently, just in new packaging.” In other words: If you already have this disc, you can definitely…

Screenshot: Eureka Entertainment/XPhysical media is the best. Maybe it’s the fact that the internet has taken over our lives and is now swiftly being enshittified. Maybe it’s the nostalgia factor. Maybe it’s the fact that streaming offers reduced quality and no actual ownership. Maybe it’s the fun and the community that comes with collecting. Or, maybe it’s just nice to have a beautifully packaged product sitting on your shelf. Whatever it is, one thing’s for sure: Whether you’re into Blu-rays, vinyl records, VHS…

Image: NetflixNetflix physical releases are rare, for obvious reasons—why give fans a Blu-ray when they can just stream whatever they’re dying to re-watch? But the service will do it when demand is high enough (see: Stranger Things, The Witcher), and mega-hit Wednesday is now joining that rare club.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksWednesday season one will be getting a physical media release on Blu-ray and DVD March 26 (pre-order here), welcome news for all those collectors…

Image: Warner Bros.It’s been a pretty good anniversary year for Babylon 5 already even if we were only getting the brand new animated movie this summer. But there’s icing on the cake: for the first time ever, the legendary sci-fi series will be making its way to Blu-ray in its entirety.You Should Really Watch The Last of UsWarner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that all 110 episodes of the series will be available as part of a complete series collection releasing this December. Including the full five seasons of…

Nostalgia is a powerful motivator. And nothing quite drives nostalgia more than ripping open a storage bin to find a pile of VHS camcorder tapes that pretty much document your life — from weddings to graduations, to family vacations, to that indie film you made when you thought you were going to be the next Scorcese. But when you’re done tripping down memory lane (assuming you have a VCR to play them on), you might be thinking about converting that VHS gold to a digital format because, whether you know it or…

Photo: Liane Hentscher/HBOWhat’s the point of buying a Blu-ray for a streaming series? Two big reasons: even for a hit HBO show like The Last of Us, there’s no guarantee it’ll always be easily accessible (see: Westworld). And once you get a load of all the extras included in the home release, you’ll have a lot of trouble resisting the purchase.Quoting the official press release—perfectly timed, as emotions among fans are still running high after Sunday night’s devastating season one finale—Comics Beat and other sites…

Photo: Ian Watson/HBO MaxIn this era of “sure, it’s still streaming on HBO Max... but for how long?”, it’s smart to turn to physical media to make sure you can always access your favorite shows and movies. With that in mind, good news for fans of HBO Max’s Station Eleven—of which there were many, even if the show didn’t quite become a pop-culture sensation on the level of the Emily St. John Mandel book that inspired it. Perhaps a home release will help change that, especially since HBO Max has yet to announce anything…

Screenshot: Universal Pictures Home EntertainmentYou may have just finished packing away all your holiday decorations, but here’s a good reason to inject a little bonus Christmas spirit into your January: Violent Night—David Harbour’s excellent Santa-goes-Die Hard tale—is arriving soon on digital, Blu-ray, and DVD. io9 has an exclusive deleted scene from the ho-ho-home release to share today!The clip is titled “Bad Dad” and, well, it’s a fantastic demonstration of why you should endeavor to stay off the naughty list.…

Optical microscopes typically max out at anywhere between 500x to 1,500x magnification, at which point you need to switch to a scanning microscope to zoom any closer. They come with some functional compromises, and they’re not cheap, often costing tens of thousands of dollars, unless you’re clever enough to repurpose the optics in an old Blu-Ray drive into a surprisingly effective laser microscope.In a way, CD-ROM and Blu-Ray drives already function like microscopes, using lasers to read the microscopic dots on the…