To update our recent feed regarding the world-cinema distributor Tartan, it seems the company’s woes have spread across the pond. Indeed, 22 members of Tartan’s workforce have been made redundant amid administrative procedures. With the US sector selling off its 100-strong film library and now this, the future of Tartan movies on Blu-ray is still unknown – hopefully these latest events won’t affect the distributor’s current slate of upcoming releases.

 Warner is reportedly planning to bring Zack Snyder’s 300 back to Blu-ray in a special-edition release. Known for its solid transfers, Warner’s original Blu-ray and HD DVD releases came out towards the end of last year, and an interview with Mark Canton (the film’s producer) confirmed that a new edition is in the works. The HD DVD contained Picture-in-Picture material missing from the Blu-ray version and, according to website The Digital Bits, an “elaborate Blu-ray Disc version is currently in production for release in 2009, complete with new BD-Live and BonusView content”, following a DVD-only limited collector’s edition later this year.

“Sometime next year” is a statement that isn’t exactly music to the HD fan’s ears but, nevertheless, it is a reality we all must face with the number of tantalising Blu-rays appearing on studios’ slates increasing by the day. However, when John Landis proclaims this in conjunction with his comedic mauler An American Werewolf In London ripping on to BD, you can’t help but howl at the moon in fevered excitement.Already roaming the net and many a bargain shelf on HD DVD, Landis’s horror classic is set to transform onto Blu-ray with all supplementary material ported over but also with some added bite. Up to date and spanning some 90 minutes in length, ‘Beware The Moon: The Making Of An American Werewolf In London’ is a retrospective doc that, along with what is bound to be a top-end disc, is set to get HD lovers drooling by the dozen.

We went to the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association (aka CEDIA) Expo at London’s Docklands on Wednesday, and saw some pretty cool gear. Not only covering home entertainment installations, the Expo also features companies and products that enable you to control your building – from lighting systems to automatically running a bath.Of course, there were also loads of projectors, screens, speaker systems, plasmas (including Panasonic’s 103-inch monster), all-in-one controllers and weatherproof screens, as well as a car decked out with its own media suite. However, the ultimate experience was a custom-made viewing pod for one. Look out for our special report in issue nine of HD Review.

 Garnering some exciting early reviews – with the majority singling out Russian helmer Timur Bekmambetov for creating some genuinely exhilarating action sequences – Wanted has now been touted as the next big breakthrough on Blu-ray. Speaking at the LA Film Festival during a lavish after-party thrown for the picture, Craig Kornblau of Universal Home Entertainment proclaimed, “What The Matrix did for DVD, this could do for Blu-ray.”A bold statement, but with Bekmambetov using his Night Watch and Day Watch credentials to break the Hollywood mould with some of this year’s action highpoints, and the pairing of Angelina Jolie and James McAvoy already a winner just from the trailer, this could be the comic adaptation that really makes a bang come its undisclosed BD date.