With The Dark Knight currently smashing box-office records left, right and centre it’ll be a while before the film appears on Blu-ray, but director Christopher Nolan has suggested that the film could appear on the format utilising more than one aspect ratio. With the majority of the film shot at 2.35:1, according to the director the specifically shot IMAX sequences include so much extra detail that they could be included at a 16:9 full-screen ratio on Blu-ray: “For home video, certainly, the Blu-ray version will [involve] actually changing the format size and actually using the IMAX footage,” Nolan said. “You can see the difference on that high resolution.”

This year’s Comic-Con is unleashing a few HD teasers on us with the Sony Booth pitched up at the event and emblazoned with the slogan ‘Get Slimed In High-Def’. That’s right, the oft-rumoured Ghostbusters Blu-ray has now been zapped to the forefront of Sony’s BD register with the promise of both outings set to hit shelves 21 October. With just a release date to go by and no official specs to get excited about as of yet, an already impressive standard-def outing for the movies can only be bettered by this release. With a new Ghostbusters title set to tantalise gamers, we suspect this could be a sneaky tie-in… but hey, we aren’t complaining about the prospect of seeing Peter, Slimer, Stay Puft and the whole gang rolling out in pristine HD.

Following on from Warner Home Video Japan’s announcement of a seven-disc Blu-ray boxset of the complete adventures of Neo and chums, the ‘Ultimate Matrix Collection’ has now been confirmed for a US bow on 14 October with an SRP of $129.95. Specs haven’t all been confirmed yet, but initial details suggest the Japanese box’s specs will be mirrored.

Sneakily listed on various websites, it seems Jerry Anderson’s puppetry magic is skipping onto Blu-ray with the complete Thunderbirds TV catalogue arriving in a BD boxset courtesy of ITV DVD. Retailing at around £90, the package currently has a release date of 15 September – we’ll keep you posted on future developments.

With a special-edition standard-def DVD in the works and readying for release, the Blu-ray of Oliver Stone’s ultra-persuasive JFK on the format comes as no cover-up. In-depth and furrowing out truths from every fascinating scene, Stone’s lengthy feature centres around the Kennedy assassination and the player(s) involved in that shocking moment in history. The standard-def release’s spec is set to include a commentary from Stone, a truth-plumbing doc titled ‘Beyond JFK: The Question Of Conspiracy’, two essays – ‘Assassination Update’ and ‘Meet Mr. X’, as well as a clutch of deleted scenes, all (we hope!) to also feature on the November-scheduled Blu-ray Disc.