Apple Corps Ltd. and EMI Music are releasing the original Beatles catalog, which has been digitally re-mastered for the first time, on September 9. It's the same date as the release of the widely anticipated "The Beatles: Rock Band" video game. Each of the CDs is packaged with the original UK album art, including expanded booklets containing original and newly written liner notes and rare photos. For a limited period, each CD will also be embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. On the same date, two new Beatles boxed CD collections will also be released.

The albums were re-mastered by a team of engineers at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London over a four year period combining state-of-the-art recording technology alongside vintage studio equipment. Their goal was to carefully maintain the authenticity and integrity of the original analogue recordings. Apple says the result is the highest fidelity the catalog has seen since its original release.

The collection includes all 12 Beatles albums in stereo, with track listings and artwork as originally released in the UK, and 'Magical Mystery Tour,' which became part of The Beatles' core catalogue when the CDs were first released in 1987. In addition, the collections 'Past Masters Vol. I and II' are now combined as one title. This will mark the first time that the first four Beatles albums will be available in stereo on CD. These 14 albums, along with a DVD collection of the documentaries, will also be available for purchase together in a stereo boxed set.