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The aftermath of the high-definition DVD format wars, which left the Blu-ray disc as the surviving format, has not seen too much ramping up of Blu-ray production, although this month's batch of discs does hint at some emerging trends that we find encouraging, to wit, two of the Blu-ray discs here are of films that are over 20 years old, and one is of an eccentric picture that's in its late teens. Fans of the classics that we are, we welcome that sort of thing.

We were, of course, disappointed to find that Paramount, which was wed to the now-dead HD-disc format until said format, well, died, did not shift to Blu-ray in time to bring us a high-definition disc of Paul Thomas Anderson's great, and great-looking, There Will Be Blood. The fact that the film's standard definition disc looks so great is a mixed consolation — as the Blu-ray disc of the Coens' No Country For Old Men proved (see our last Consumer Guide installment), great in standard-def can mean so-much-way-greater in high-def. A German Touchstone release of a Blu-ray version of Blood is scheduled for June; so far many foreign Blu-ray discs have had no trouble playing on American players, but we can't verify at the moment that this one will. Also, it costs 40 Euros, and with the current rate of exchange... oy.

But let's not get overly bent out of shape over what might be, when there are more than a few top-notch discs in the batch we've assembled for this month. Beginning with the movie that's in its teens...

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