DVD/Blu-ray showdown: WALL•E vs. Batman - which will be the year's top seller? (IMDB)

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Today, on Amazon's IMDB.com website (The Internet Movie Database), there is a "Studio Briefing" column from the IMDB Blu Room discussing the sales potential this holiday season between the DVD and Blu-ray editions of Disney/Pixar's WALL•E vs Warner's THE DARK KNIGHT (Batman), and which title will end up being the top seller.

Of particular note to us here is that DVDTOWN's Managing Editor James Plath's Blu-ray review of WALL•E has been quoted in the column...

While many industry observers are predicting that the planned December 9 release of The Dark Knight on DVD will become the year's biggest video hit, a few others suggest that next Tuesday's release of Disney/Pixar's WALL•E should not be overlooked. They point out that animated features have a long history of dominance in home-video sales and that Wall-E is one of the few that holds as much appeal for adults as it does for children. Meanwhile, websites that focus on high-definition fare have unanimously endorsed the Blu-ray version of WALL•E as the HD gold standard. On dvdtown.com, James Plath begins his review of the Blu-ray release with the single word "Wow." He calls the picture detail "remarkable" and says that it often displays a "pleasing" 3-D quality that gives the illusion of depth "without 'popping' the figures out at you as if you were watching a film with those funny cardboard glasses." On bluray.com, Ben Williams calls the video quality "flawless ...simply stunning." He adds: "WALL•E is as perfect and stunning on Blu-ray as anyone could have hoped." On highdefdigest.com, Peter M. Bracke calls the WALL•E Blu-ray package "a truly ground-breaking achievement." He goes on to write that it is "guaranteed to rank as a new demo disc of choice. ...Pixar has crowed that there is not a pixel out of place, and the hyperbole is justified. WALL•E is a visual masterpiece."
[source: IMDB.com]

Congratulations to editor James Plath. DVDTOWN welcomes and appreciates the publicity of his work, and the many other excellent reviews here among our staff.

(Originally reported by DVDTOWN's Eddie Feng).

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