Jonathan Takiff: Bring blazing images home

 THE GIZMO: Two "show pieces" for your high-res TV screen and home theater sound system earn our roaring approval.

BRING IT ALL HOME: If you were a Bill Gates, you might buy the great Corbis Collection of art and photo images (as Mr. Microsoft actually did), in part to display the works on your big-screen sets. If you were a Warren Buffett, you could commission great musicians to perform for parties in your living room.

But for the rest of us, fine-art images and a state-of-the-art concert performance that grandly show off a high-resolution TV screen and surround-sound system are now just a Blu-ray disc away, thanks to Screen Dreams' collection "MoMA: 50 Masterworks From the Collection" and the coolest 3-D video concert ever captured, Peter Gabriel's "New Blood Live in London," just out from Eagle Rock.

ART FOR ART'S SAKE: Philadelphia-based and steered by second-generation entertainment entrepreneur Stephen Spivak, Screen Dreams has been leading the "fine arts images for everyone" revolution for several years.

Spivak's first foray was a free streaming "app" for Internet-connected Sharp and Philips televisions, serving up great paintings and landscape photography, plus kinetic views of blazing fireplaces and fish swimming around your flat-panel aquarium.

Recently, Screen Dreams launched a paid ($2.99) variation for Yahoo-widget-streaming TVs, appearing on Toshiba sets first. Now Vizio, Sony and Samsung products are warming up in the wings.

But to my mind, those apps pale next to the offering Spivak has swung with New York's Museum of Modern Art, earning the right to share 50 of the institution's greatest masterworks (think Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gaughin and more) via an interactive videodisc.

With images automatically flipping every 30 seconds or so, as tasteful, new-age jazz tinkles on the soundtrack, this art exhibit shows off your HDTV to advantage, lends a touch of culture and offers an interesting alternative when friends come by.

Plus, this kinetic museum is yours to own and enjoy forever for just $16.95 in high-def Blue-ray form, $14.95 in standard DVD. Both are available at amazon.com and screendreamsdvd.com.

BEST OF THE BUNCH: MoMA curators selected the art "based on their knowledge of the images that sell best in other products, through posters, calenders and postcards," said Spivak. The museum team also supplied the digitized images and suggested how the art should be cropped for a 16:9 widescreen.