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		'Monsters vs. Aliens' is the ultimate; a 3-D 'first' Monsters vs. Aliens is a throwback to those B-movie glory days of the '50s when Martians invaded our backyards and rubber monsters stalked the Earth. But the DreamsWorks sci-fi spoof, landing March 27, 2009, also transforms a once-tacky Ike-era gimmick into an eye-popping 21st-century experience as the first computer-animated feature to be shot in 3-D. Studios such as Disney have dimensionalized CGI films, but only after a non-3-D version was made.

A Battle in th HomeTheater: HighDefinition DVD Formats In February 2008, Blu-ray emerged as the winner in the high-definition DVD format war, when rival Toshiba gave up on its HD DVD format. This article offers previous coverage on the beginnings of the format war. What's really exciting in the DVD world is the development of a couple of new DVD formats that will allow true high-definition (HD) programming to be available on optical discs. A number of companies have banded together into two groups with competing standards for these next-generation, high-definition disc formats.