After months of delays, Buena Vista Home Entertainment has announced a new street date and full specs for the eagerly-awaited Ed Wood. This Tim Burton biopic and instant cult favorite will now be released on February 3rd, complete with a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track, audio commentary with Burton, Oscar winner Martin Landau, screenwriters Scott Alexander & Larry Karazewski, costume designer Colleen Atwood, and cinematographer Stefan Czapsky, deleted scenes, the "Let's Shoot This F#*%@r!" documentary, additional "The Theremin," "Making Bela," "Pie Plates Over Hollywood" and "When Carol Met Larry" featurettes, an original music video and the original theatrical trailer. Retail for this two-disc set will be $29.95.

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Just in from MGM Home Entertainment are the full specs for the new Rain Man special edition, streeting on February 10th. Newly remastered, this multiple Oscar winner sports a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track, three audio commentaries by director Barry Levinson and screenwriters Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow, a featurette, deleted scene, still gallery and theatrical trailer. Retail is set at a mere $19.95.

MGM has also announced the full specs for their lineup of great 80's B-movie gems, also due on the 10th. The late Charles Bronson returns as the perpetually pissed-off Paul Kersey in Death Wish 2, Death Wish 3 and Death Wish 4: The Crackdown, along with the action-fest Roadhouse 66. Alas, all are receiving the full frame-only treatment sans extras aside from trailers. Better are the cheesy Robert Chamberlain Indiana Jones rip-offs King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold and the 1962 thriller X-15, which will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen and Dolby 2.0 surround. Extras include trailers only. And finally getting the special edition treatment is Paul Verhoeven's controversial Flesh + Blood, which will be newly remastered in anamorphic widescreen and Dolby Digital 5.1, and include a new audio commentary with Verhoeven, the "Composing Flesh + Blood" featurette and trailers. Retail will be $14.95 a pop.

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Rounding out today's news are more TV on DVD announcements from Warner Home Video, HBO Home Video and BBC Video. Streeting on February 3rd are Red Dwarf: Series 3 and Red Dwarf: Series 4, each a two-disc set that feature 4:3 full screen transfers, cast audio commentaries on each episode, the "All Change" and "Built to Last" documentaries, additional "Food, Hattie's DJ Diary," "A Tribute to Designer Mel Bibby," "Audio Book Chapters," "Lurve," "Can't Smeg Won't Smeg Special" and "Ace Rimmer - A Life in Lame" featurettes, deleted scenes, outtakes, two photo galleries, raw FX footage, isolated music cues and trailers. Retail is $34.98, and the first 30,000 pressed copies of each will feature a limited edition trading card set. Get 'em while they last.

More BBC fare includes Robbie Coltrane in the PBS Mystery fave Cracker: Series 2. This three-disc set includes the episodes "To Be a Somebody," "The Big Crunch," and "Men Should Weep" in 4:3 full screen and Dolby 2.0 stereo, and there are no extras. Also lacking supplements are Prime Suspect 2 and Prime Suspect 3, starring Helen Mirren, which include the same specs. Retail is $29.95 a pop.
 
Last but not least from HBO Home Video is Oz: The Complete Third Season, which hits stores on February 24th. This three-disc set features the short 8-epiosde season in 4:3 full screen and Dolby Digital 5.1, plus extras: audio commentary with creator Tom Fontana and director Chazz Palminteri on the episode "Unnatural Disasters," over 20 minutes of deleted scenes, plus episode previews and recaps. Retail will set you back $64.95.