20th Century Fox is set to become your favorite studio. Why? Because they have decided to work together with WD – a storage company owned by Western Digital - to make their biggest films easier to watch in High Definition in the comfort of your own home. Once again we’re losing reasons to go through the rigmarole of putting on your pants and going outside just to watch a movie.
The Hollywood Reporter has published a preview piece about WD’s upcoming product, the 4k Ultra HD movie drive, will make it much easier to view 4K Ultra HD films in your abode. This will only be available in Samsung SUHD TVs and Vidity-enabled TVs and devices, though.
The drives actual name is My Passport Cinema, and it will be available to purchase for the sum of $89.99. But what do you get for this price? Well, you’re able to store, organize, and access movie and TV series in HD or in the 4K Ultra HD format.
Now, some of you cynics out there might be wondering what the difference actually is between HD and 4K Ultra HD format? Well – the latter has four times the resolution of HD, and on the aforementioned devices it will basically look so crystal clear that you’ll believe that brand new eyeballs have been placed inside your skull.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have decided that they want to have a piece of this deal, as they’ve not gone above and beyond to provide a vast amount of their movies and television series in the format. This will include, but is in no way limited to, X-Men: Days Of Future Past and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes. Just imagine: you’ll now be able to look at the beauty and majesty of the below apes with your eyes just a millimeter away from your TV screen.
Want more? Well, apparently the likes of The Maze Runner, Exodus: Gods And Kings, The Wolverine, Let’s Be Cops, and The Fault In Our Stars will be available on the new system as well. And all you’ll need to do to gain access to these pristine versions of these films that have already been preloaded onto your My Passport Cinema is spend less than $100.
In an official statement about the deal, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Danny Kaye waxed lyrical about the innovations that the studio’s pairing up with WD and My Passport Cinema will introduce, and even insisted that this is the merging of "unprecedented quality with the convenience of digital." Basically, this means that this product is going to stop people going to the cinemas, and instead they’ll wait for their favorite Fox films to be available at home - which more than being "unprecedented" actually sounds rather sad.
