Warner Bros. opens library for HD VOD

Posted by Jeffrey Nukom on Aug 17th, 2008

. Digital Distribution is celebrating . Entertainment’s 85th anniversary by releasing 85 of its classic films in HD (High-Definition Video-On-Demand). Movies from the library already available on-demand include “Superman: The Movie,” “Casablanca” and “Full Metal Jacket”. Some of the titles are being offered for the first time in high-definition.

The . movies are available from cable television providers Time Warner Cable, Comcast, Cox Cable, Charter Communications and Rogers Cable (Canada), as well as from satellite television providers DirecTV and DISH Network.

You may not find all these titles available though, as the list may vary from provider to provider. There was no mention of fiber-optic providers Verizon or AT&T in the announcement from Warner. Below is the list of released titles:

Absolute Power
All the President's Men
An American in Paris
Analyze This
Any Given Sunday
Arthur
Beetlejuice
Ben Hur
Blade Runner
Blazing Saddles
Blood Work
Bonnie and Clyde
Casablanca
Chariots of Fire
A Clockwork Orange
Collateral Damage
Constantine
Cool Hand Luke
Deliverance
Devil's Advocate
Dial M for Murder
Dirty Harry
Doctor Zhivago
Dog Day Afternoon
Enter the Dragon
Eraser (not HD)
The Exorcist
Fear dot com
The Fugitive
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
Green Mile
Grumpy Old Men (not HD)
Horror of Dracula (not HD)
I Confess
Interview with the Vampire
The Killing Fields
Last Samurai
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 3
Lethal Weapon 4
Little Shop of Horrors
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
Maltese Falcon
Mars Attacks!
Matrix Reloaded
Matrix Revisited (not theatrically released)
Matrix Revolutions
Million Dollar Baby
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Natural Born Killers
Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Ocean's Twelve
Once Upon a Time in America
Pale Rider
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
The Philadelphia Story
Presumed Innocent
The Road Warrior
Rebel without a Cause
The Right Stuff
Risky Business
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Singin' in the Rain
Space Jam
Spies Like Us
Stage Fright
Strangers on a Train
Streetcar Named Desire
Superman II
Superman III
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (not HD)
Superman: The Movie
Suspicion
Three Kings
Training Day
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Troy
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Under Siege
Unforgiven
The Wrong Man

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One Response

  1. Meri Says:

    Does anyone know if Verizon will be playing these movies? I noticed Beyond Thunderdome was on HDNet the other night but was that part of the MGM deal?

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