Spring is in the air, and so are love and an increased pollen content. After you finish wiping your runny eyes and plugging up those dripping nostrils, check out this week’s edition of The Digital Wire. Now if you’ll excuse me, I just sneezed all over my laptop screen. Gross.

Below you’ll find info on several future DVD and Blu-ray releases complete with technical specs, release dates, and links to pre-order at Amazon, as well as a list of titles coming out this week.

This week’s edition of The Digital Wire Blu-ray Releases is pretty like every week’s edition – a hearty roundup of home video release announcements for titles both vintage and recent. From outer space to the streets of Baltimore, from Miyazaki to Mann, there’s bound to be something of interest to you. So dig in and don’t forget to wear a bib.

Below you’ll find info on several future home video releases complete with technical specs, release dates, and links to pre-order at Amazon, as well as a list of titles coming out this week.

Ron Howard, who is one of the few true artistes of a higher caliber in Hollywood and who has excelled as a virtual Renaissance man in that industry as an actor, director, and producer, celebrates his 60th birthday today.

It almost seems that for the entire world, there has never been a time that Ron Howard hasn’t been in our consciousness in one way or another. From his earliest starts as a pint-sized cute redhead who follows Robert Preston around in The Music Man, to being the son of the conscientious TV star Andy Griffith on CBS’s The Andy Griffith Show as Opie Taylor, to seemingly sprouting up overnight and becoming a tall teenager with multitudes of growing pains as one Richie Cunningham on the smash sitcom Happy Days (which just unbelievably celebrated its 40th anniversary earlier this year), Ron Howard seemed to tackle all of those aforementioned roles with a grace and an aw-shucks charm that never turned him off to audiences because of it — it was quite the contrary actually.