Universal Announces It's First Wave of HD-DVD Titles

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Source: The Digital Bits

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

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Universal has officially announced the first three HD-DVD titles they are going to be releasing.

In a story from The Digital Bits, it seems the first three titles are going to be Serenity, Apollo 13 and Doom: Unrated Extended Edition.

It appears that the movies are going to be in the "HD-30 (single-sided) format, and will include English, French and Spanish audio in English Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 Surround, with English SDH and French and Spanish subtitles."

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