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For a Limited Time -- Disney Offers Families Even Greater Value on Hits in Hi-Def Including Wall-E Prince Caspian Tinker Bell Sleeping Beauty The Nightmare Before Christmas and Many More!


Family Movie-Time Is Back! Blu-ray[TM] Players Top The Gift List This Holiday Season!*

Exciting Disney Blu-ray Promotion Runs From December 26, 2008 Until January 10, 2009

BURBANK, Calif. -- With Blu-ray high-definition players at the top of more Holiday wish lists than any other consumer electronic product* and the top-selling consumer product during the recent "Black Friday Black Friday, Sept. 24, 1869, in U.S. history, day of financial panic. In 1869 a small group of American financial speculators, including Jay Gould and James Fisk, sought the support of federal officials of the Grant administration in a drive to corner the gold " online shopping day**, Walt Disney Studios The name Walt Disney Studios may refer to:
  • The Walt Disney Company, especially its Studio Entertainment unit, which includes Disney's motion picture studios, music labels, theatrical production company, and distribution companies.
 Home Entertainment today announces an expansive hit-filled money-saving promotion giving the rapidly-growing number of Blu-ray families even greater value on many of the studio's top releases. The one-of-a-kind promotion from Disney allows movie fans, including millions who will have just received holiday gift cards, fantastic extra value on box-office mega hits and family favorites including Wall-E, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Tinker Bell Tinker Bell

fairy friend of Peter Pan. [Br. Lit.: J. M. Barrie Peter Pan]

See : Fairy


Tinker Bell

fairy saved by the faith of the audience after she drinks a lethal potion. [Br. Drama: J. M.
, Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty

sleeps for 100 years. [Fr. Fairy Tale, The Sleeping Beauty]

See : Enchantment


Sleeping Beauty

enchanted heroine awakened from century of slumber by prince’s kiss.
, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, National Treasure: Book of Secrets and many more, when they purchase from December 26, 2008 until January 10, 2009.*** The exciting price reduction will be reflected at participating retailers across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. .

Disney Blu-ray's innovative technology is bringing families back together, uniting them from separate activities, to allow interactivity in conjunction with movie-watching. The Disney BD-Live Network is an on-line community that brings viewers from across the country together into the same virtual living room. It joins family and friend in the ultimate interactive entertainment experience, where they don't just watch - they participate! BD-live cutting-edge features include Movie Chat, Movie Mail, Movie Challenge and more. An ongoing promotional campaign directs viewers to www.DisneyBluray.com where they can learn more about the exciting possibilities of these innovative interactive features for the whole family and also explains more about high-definition and the un-paralleled picture and sound offered only by Blu-ray disc A Blu-ray Disc (also called BD) is a high-density optical disc format for the storage of digital information, including high-definition video. Overview
The name Blu-ray Disc is derived from the blue-violet laser used to read and write this type of disc.
.

*Data from Greenfield Online, Inc

** Online shopping statistics from PriceGrabber.com via The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG)

***The Promotion runs from January 2 until January 16, 2009 in Canada

Titles Participating in the Disney Price Reduction Program

Disney Live-Action

* Narnia: Lion, Witch and Wardrobe

* Narnia: Price Caspian 2-Disc and Narnia: Prince Caspian 3-Disc Disneyfile

* National Treasure Collector's Edition

* National Treasure 2: Book Of Secrets

* Pirates This is a list of known pirates, buccaneers, corsairs, privateers, and others involved in piracy. This list includes both captains and prominent crew members.

See also: pirates, wokou, buccaneers, corsairs, and privateers Ancient World
 1: Curse of The Black Pearl The Black Pearl, originally HEIC Wicked Wench, is a fictional ship in , , and . The Black Pearl is easily recognised by her distinctive black hull and sails. This turns out to be an advantage in more than one way.  

* Pirates 2: Dead Man's Chest

* Pirates 3: At World's End

* Pirates Trilogy

* The Santa Clause 3

* Underdog

* Bridge To Terabithia

* Eight Below

* Enchanted en·chant  
tr.v. en·chant·ed, en·chant·ing, en·chants
1. To cast a spell over; bewitch.

2. To attract and delight; entrance. See Synonyms at charm.
 

* The Game Plan

* Glory Road

* Sky High

* Invincible

* College Road Trip

* High School Musical 2

* High School Musical: Concert

* Camp Rock

Disney Animated

* Cars

* Chicken Little

* Dinosaur

* Meet The Robinsons

* The Nightmare Before Christmas 1-Disc Disneyfile

* Pixar Short Film Collection V.1

* Ratatouille ra·ta·tou·ille  
n.
A vegetable stew, usually made with eggplant, tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, and onions, seasoned with herbs and garlic.



[French, from alteration of toillier, touiller,
 

* Sleeping Beauty Platinum Edition

* Tinker Bell

* The Wild

* Wall-E 2-Disc and Wall-E 3-Disc Disneyfile

ABOUT BD-LIVE

Disney BD-Live Network

The Disney BD-Live network is a safe, friendly network where guests can interact with their friends through a variety of activities related to their films. Launching with Movie Chat, Movie Challenge, Movie Mail, and Disney Movie Rewards Live!, the Disney BD-Live network thrives on interaction and viral participation. A suite of unique Disney touches (such as viral avatars, trusted, friends, and quality parental controls This article is about computer options. For the television show, see Parental Control (TV series).

Parental controls are options, typically included in digital television services, computer and video games, or computer software used to access the Internet, that
) makes the Disney BD-Live Network an attractive experience for families to interact online through their films.

Movie Chat

Movie Chat allows trusted friends to communicate with each other while experiencing a movie together. Hosts will also be able to control the playback of their friends Blu-ray player, creating a unique synchronized syn·chro·nize  
v. syn·chro·nized, syn·chro·niz·ing, syn·chro·niz·es

v.intr.
1. To occur at the same time; be simultaneous.

2. To operate in unison.

v.tr.
1.
 remote event. Communication can be with your player's remote control or an external connected device, like a cell phone or laptop.

Movie Challenge

Launching with a host of Trivia challenges, Movie Challenge is a collection of multi-player games that Disney fans can play against each other. Challenges can be played between a set of trusted friends, buddies that you've met online, or through a Global Challenge (a constantly running competition) with players from across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. .

Movie Mail

Movie Mail allows trusted friends to send Video messages to their friends synced up to a specific time in the movie, and played back over the film. Friends will be able to comment on a scene of the film, or send special notes to the ones they love by uploading video or capturing webcam footage through the Disney BD-Live Network.

Disney Movie Rewards Live!

Disney Movie Rewards Live! connects the Disney Movie Rewards experience directly to the film watching/living room experience. Guests will be able to browse a special BD-Live(tm) category in Disney Movie Rewards and redeem their existing reward points for new items exclusive to the Disney BD-Live network, like updated bonus features and new live events. Guests will also be able to earn reward points by completing special activities within the Disney BD-Live network via their internet-connected Blu-ray player.

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, a recognized leader in the home entertainment industry, is the marketing, sales and distribution company for Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)
Disney, Walter Elias Disney
, Touchstone touchstone

Black, silica-containing stone used in assaying to determine the purity of gold and silver. The metal to be assayed is rubbed on the touchstone, and then a sample of metal of known purity is rubbed on the stone right next to it.
, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax and Buena Vista product, which includes DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
, Blu-ray Disc([TM]) and electronic distribution. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment is a division of The Walt Disney Studios.

These press materials are available in electronic form at www.WDSHEpublicity.com

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