The new date for the Torchwood: Children of Earth' Blu-Ray has been bumped up to a July 28th release date, day-and-date with the DVD release

I think you maybe reading a press release that relates to the USA. July 28th is a tuesday, and blurays/dvds come out on mondays here.

(Having said that, the bbfc passed a bluray menu for Torchwood Children of Earth yesterday, and I'd imagine the UK release will be around the same time.)

Looks like it's going to get released the week following its broadcast then.

well that's going to be fun in the piracy world, considering they pushed the broadcast date. Bravo, BBC for shooting yourselves in the foot.

Now up on Amazon UK, the release date is July 27th.

Quite bizarrely, now (3.28am, 4th June) Amazon have priced the bluray @ £17.59 and the dvd @ £19.09.

dvd: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Torchwood-Ch...082182&sr=1-23
blu ray: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Torchwood-Ch...082182&sr=1-22

Thanks for that, I have just placed my order for the Blu-ray version.

How come? It looks like the TV broadcasts will be w/c July 20th, with the dvd/blu-ray releases the following Monday/Tuesday.

Wait - I'm confused. is it June or July?

TV: 20th-24th of July.
DVD/BR: 27th July.

Yes, it was slated as June, but now confirmed as July.

Which means they'll already have been pressed and in the distributors' warehouses before transmission in order to be in stores the next week. It's common for DVDs and Blu-rays to be available online (pirated) a fortnight or so before they go on sale, and this year's finale of '24' was online about 13 hours before its actual transmission because of the DVD.