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The Criterion Collection is a video distribution company which specializes in licensing and selling "important classic and contemporary films" in "editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Criterion Collection )〕 Janus Films and the Voyager Company established The Criterion Collection in 1984 as a privately held company concentrating exclusively upon the North American home video market. Between 1984 and 1998, Criterion published home video releases in LaserDisc format, pioneering now-standard home video features such as letterboxing, audio commentary tracks, and other supplemental content. In 1998, Criterion shifted from Laserdiscs into the then-fledgling DVD market. All of Criterion's Laserdisc releases have since gone out of print. Criterion was slow to expand into high-definition releases, partly due to the HD format wars between Blu-ray and HD DVD. Once Blu-ray had emerged as the industry-standard high-definition home video format, Criterion expanded into releasing Blu-ray editions of select films from its collection, beginning with the Blu-ray release of Wong Kar-wai's ''Chungking Express'' (1994) on December 16, 2008. The company has also expanded into online distribution, through online video on demand rental services, first in partnership with MUBI (formerly known as The Auteurs),〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Auteurs )〕 and recently with Hulu. Criterion offers unreleased (on DVD/Blu-ray) on their Hulu Plus subscription channel. In late 2013, Criterion announced that with the November release of the ''Zatoichi'' boxset (spine #679), all their releases would be in dual format (DVD and Blu-ray packaged together) rather than individual releases.〔http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2873-why-dual-format〕 This decision also applied to most upgrade re-releases introduced after November, 2013. After customer feedback revealed some reluctance to this approach, ''All That Jazz'' (#724) became the last chronological spine number released as a dual format edition, and the decision was reversed back to separate releases for titles released in and after September.〔http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3195-re-format〕 Despite the emergence of Blu-ray as the industry-standard high-definition format, Janus/Criterion remain committed to supporting the DVD format. Not only are all their new Blu-ray releases accompanied by a standard-definition DVD version, but revised and upgraded releases are also released on both formats (bar a brief foray into dual-format releases). Moreover, the company's stand-alone line of Eclipse releases are currently only made available in the standard DVD format. Aside from the core Criterion Collection catalog, the company has also released films through its Essential Art House, Eclipse, and Merchant Ivory Collection lines, as well as a few releases outside of any product line. Many of these releases have also been collected and sold in various box sets. ==The Criterion Collection== : I ''Floating Weeds'' has been released on Laserdisc and the Essential Art House series, but ''A Story of Floating Weeds'' has not.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Criterion Collection )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Criterion Collection )〕 II Akira Kurosawa's 1957 adaptation of ''The Lower Depths'' is included in the ''25 Films by Akira Kurosawa'' box set, but Jean Renoir's 1936 adaptation is not.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Criterion Collection )〕 III Included as extra on ''The Seventh Seal'' Blu-ray and 2-DVD release.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Criterion Collection )〕 IV The ''By Brakhage: An Anthology Volumes One and Two'' box set has only been released on Blu-ray.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Criterion Collection )〕 V The ''Pina'' Blu-ray release features both 2D and 3D versions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = The Criterion Collection )〕 VI Included as extra on the ''Grey Gardens'' Blu-ray release.〔http://www.criterion.com/films/664-grey-gardens〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray releases」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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