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Netflix adds South Park, Dora & more to Watch Instantly

by Richard Lawler posted Apr 6th 2009 at 7:22PM

For all Netflix Watch Instantly queues found lacking (possibly due to excessive swiping?), the company announced the addition of several MTV Networks properties including South Park (but not in HD), Dora the Explorer, True Jackson, VP and Spongebob Squarepants. Keen watchers of the recently added RSS feed have probably seen this content trickling onto the service recently, but that's no reason not to queue up a few seasons of each and kick back.

Engadget HD Giveaway: South Park Season 12 Blu-ray / DVD packs!

by Darren Murph posted Mar 9th 2009 at 12:30PM


We've been anticipating South Park's Blu-ray debut for months, and now that the moment has finally arrived, we're delighted to be able to give away a couple of those very sets that have pranced around in your mind all winter. We've got two Complete Twelfth Season Blu-ray sets as well as two DVD sets (with Digital Copy), and the editions will be given away at random (though feel free to shout out your format of preference when commenting). Be sure and look past the break for the full release copy, complete with details on bonus features and the like. Oh, and be certain to tune into Comedy Central HD on March 11th to catch the premier of Season 13 in glorious high-definition. All's that required to enter this here contest is a comment below, but be sure to read very, very carefully the fine print below before you do so. Cool? Cool.

Special thanks to Comedy Central Home Entertainment for the discs!

The rules:
  • Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, though we'd prefer to hear who you think killed Kenny.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 48 continental US States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
  • Winner will be chosen randomly. Four (4) winners will receive one (1) South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season in either Blu-ray or DVD form (selection is at random). Approximate MSRP value is $49.99 (DVD) / $69.99 (Blu-ray).
  • Entries can be submitted until Thursday, March 12th, 11:59AM ET. Good luck!
  • Full rules can be found here.

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South Park finally goes HD in season 13

by Darren Murph posted Jan 20th 2009 at 8:51PM


Hold on to your hats, kids -- South Park is making its long awaited high-def debut in just under two months. Starting on March 11th with the season 13 premier, every successive episode of the famed cartoon will be in glorious high-definition. Furthermore, the crew has been toiling around the clock in order to re-render previous episodes in native HD (presumably for Blu-ray releases), so don't be shocked to see episodes from years past show up on Comedy Central HD a bit clearer than you remember. And here you were thinking the show was teetering on the edge of irrelevance.

[Thanks, Michael]

Comedy Central HD launches today on Cablevision

by Richard Lawler posted Jan 13th 2009 at 2:34PM Breaking News

Comedy Central HD launches today, and Cablevision iO TV subscribers will be the first to see it. According to Multichannel News we can expect 200 hours or so of native HD programming to start, including about 30 episodes of South Park, The Sarah Silverman Program, plus loads of archived stand up and films. Coming up fresh and new for your HDTV is season 13 of South Park, Reno 911, The Flaming Sward of Fire and Krod Mandoon, while The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,and The Colbert Report will get an HD upgrade at a later date. Besides nabbing the exclusive, Cablevision's trumpeting its numbers showing HD penetration is up to nearly 50 percent of iO TV subs, with 69 HD channels available. Otherwise, DirecTV and Cox will be adding later this month with more launches due later in the year -- hopefully Time Warner worked that into the latest deal with Viacom.

[Via Multichannel News]

South Park making long-awaited Blu-ray debut in March

by Darren Murph posted Dec 22nd 2008 at 9:54AM


South Park was already a winner in HD, and now it's finally making the expected leap to BD. For the first time ever, the calloused crew will be seen on Blu-ray format when the Complete Twelfth Season BD launches day-and-date with the DVD set in March 2009. All 14 uncensored episodes will be presented on a three-disc set, with each in 1080p and boasting Dolby TrueHD 5.1 surround sound. Sadly, we're still waiting to hear an MSRP and whether any of the prior seasons will follow suit on BD, but there's a good chance that studio execs are waiting on sales numbers from this one to determine the latter.

HD premiere of South Park's Imaginationland airing on DirecTV's The 101

by Darren Murph posted May 30th 2008 at 4:35PM


Believe it. Your wildest (okay, maybe one of your wildest) dreams is about to come true. Tonight at midnight (local time, we presume), South Park will air for the first time ever in high-definition (on TV) when "Imaginationland" takes center stage on DirecTV's The 101. Viewers can delight in the feature-length, director's cut from May 30th to May 31st, and if that wasn't enough, the season eight premiere -- "Good Times With Weapons" -- will also be broadcast in HD on the same station. We can't say for sure that this is a sign of things to come, but we doubt we're alone in hoping so.

[Image courtesy of Scott Tenorman / Comedy Central]

Xbox Live queues up more HD movies & TV for March

by Richard Lawler posted Feb 29th 2008 at 1:52PM

Xbox Live Marketplace has been busy adding videos all year and it looks like March will be the same way, with Afro Samurai hitting the service in HD only next month. More South Park is coming too, starting March 10, along with a free episode of Lewis Black's new show and Robot: Chicken: Star Wars. No word on if the latter two are available in HD, but check after the break for some of the movies showing up for rent next month.

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South Park's first HD episode hits Xbox Live tomorrow

by Richard Lawler posted Mar 5th 2007 at 9:53AM

The Xbox Live Video Marketplace is getting some of the truly compelling content we've been waiting for, as Wired is reporting that the first high definition episode of South Park will be available for download tomorrow. At the incredibly great price of free -- for the first two weeks -- all Xbox Live members can download the "Good times with Weapons" episode. If you for some reason don't have a 360, or don't have the internet and are reading this via teletype, Best Buy will also be making the episode available on HD DVD discs free with the purchase of an Xbox 360 or the HD DVD add-on between March 20th and April 3rd. Animated TV shows have been missing in HD for too long, hopefully we'll see more of those and more HD content on XBLM -- like HD Battlestar Galactica episodes we don't have to wait 6 months to see, as suggested by our friends at Joystiq.

[Via Joystiq]

What would Brian Boitano do? Skate in high definition.

by Richard Lawler posted Jan 13th 2006 at 3:42PM


Because skaters and gymnasts are what high definition has been missing of course. Well, actually they kind of are, the Hilton Skating & Gymnastics Spectacular will be the first broadcast of a gymnastics or skating event (I'm assuming they are excluding the Olympics).

Boitano, Elvis Stojko, gymnasts Paul Hamm and Carly Patterson and others will be featured in the two hour special to air on NBC Sunday.




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