(CNN) -- On Tuesday, Bruce Springsteen's 1975 classic "Born to Run" comes out in a newly remastered edition.About time.Despite the endless re-releases, re-re-releases and re-packaging of other artists' work over the years (how many Who greatest hits collections do we need, anyway?), Springsteen has remained untouched. Pre-"Lucky Town" Springsteen CDs were never updated after they were first issued, just as CDs first became dominant in the mid-1980s. They even still have the official "compact disc" logo on the cover, long since dropped on other artists' releases, and the sound quality is dismal. Technology has now gotten to the point where CD remasterings can strengthen and brighten the sound without ruining artists' intentions (as, sadly, some early CDs -- such as the muddy mess of Derek and the Dominos' "Layla" -- did), and Springsteen, a studio perfectionist, has been long overdue for the treatment.The downside of all these remasterings and reissues is that consumers sometimes have to buy the same album more than once. In some cases, such as Motown, it's worth it: That label butchered many of its '60s classics when it first transferred them to CD, and it wasn't until the past few years that the wrongs have been righted (even though, to my regret, some recent singles collections only feature songs in mono -- even the post-1966 material that sounds better in stereo). On the other hand, Elvis Costello's Columbia recordings have now come out on CD three times -- first on Columbia (with mediocre quality), then on Ryko (much better) and now Rhino (wonderful, but overkill). Classic albums also now are being released on DVD, thus allowing consumers to purchase yet another copy of something they may already own in several other formats. With "Born to Run," though, Columbia/Sony is doing things right. The remastered album presumably meets Springsteen's strict standards (and this is a guy known to do dozens of mixes before he's happy with a track) and includes a documentary about the making of the album and a DVD of a London concert from Springsteen's now-legendary 1975 tour.(An update: A reader e-mails to say that Columbia did release a "gold disc" CD of "Born to Run" in the mid-'90s, but that "It might have sounded a little better, but nothing earth-shaking." Which makes this new "Born to Run" still the one to have ... for now, anyway.)Eye on Entertainment lets the screen door slam.Eye-openerWhen "Born to Run" was released on August 25, 1975, it was an event.Rumors had floated for months about Springsteen's project, one that would consolidate the audience he'd earned with "Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J." (1973) and "The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle" (also 1973) and his marathon live shows, as well as make concrete the full-blown Wall of Sound he had in his mind.The album succeeded, perhaps too well. Both Time and Newsweek famously put Springsteen on their covers the same week, and Springsteen was hailed as rock 'n' roll's savior. That's a big responsibility for anybody, and it's one that changes with the whims of a fickle press and public. Whether "savior" or not, Springsteen has lived up to "Born to Run's" promise in the years since -- whether with "Darkness on the Edge of Town" (1978), featuring his angriest, most scathing guitar solos; the panoramic "The River" (1980); the brooding "Nebraska" (1982); the arena-filling "Born in the U.S.A." (1984); the introspective "Tunnel of Love" (1987); and on to the present day with "The Rising" (2002) and this year's "Devils and Dust."Looking back at "Born to Run," it was obvious that it was all there. Gone was the excessively wordy verse of "Asbury Park" or the drift of "E Street"; in their places were tight word-pictures and tighter playing:"The screen door slams / Mary's dress waves / Like a vision she dances across the porch / As the radio plays" ("Thunder Road")or: "One soft infested summer me and Terry became friends / Trying in vain to breathe the fire we was born in" ("Backstreets")and, of course:"The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive / Everybody's out on the run tonight but there's no place left to hide" ("Born to Run").The remastered, three-disc "Born to Run" comes out Tuesday.On screen50 Cent stars in a movie based on his life, "Get Rich or Die Tryin'." It's directed by Jim Sheridan, who directed the very different "My Left Foot" and "In America." Opened Wednesday.Clive Owen is a married man, and Jennifer Aniston is his mistress. And then someone finds out about their affair. The result? "Derailed," a thriller that opens Friday."Zathura" is the follow-up to "Jumanji." This time, two brothers playing a board game find themselves in outer space. The film, which includes Tim Robbins among the cast members, was directed by Jon Favreau ("Elf"). Opens Friday.On the tube"The Comedians of Comedy" is the name of a new show starring Brian Posehn, Maria Bamford, Patton Oswalt and Zach Galifianakis. It's as much about comedy construction as it is about laughs. 11 p.m. ET Friday, Comedy Central.On Saturday, "Mean Girls" debuts on Showtime (8 p.m. ET), and "Old School" comes to ABC (9 p.m. ET). There's a lesson in that somewhere."Masterpiece Theatre" presents the story of Elizabeth I, "The Virgin Queen." Not to be confused with "Elizabeth R." 9 p.m. ET Sunday, PBS.Sound wavesFor better or for worse, Madonna hasn't given up her musical career. Her new album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor" (Warner Bros.), comes out Tuesday.For better or for worse, Carrie Underwood is starting her musical career. The "American Idol" winner's first album, "Some Hearts" (Arista), comes out Tuesday.A Wilco live album, "Kicking Television: Live in Chicago" (Nonesuch), comes out Tuesday.As a friend of mine once said about Elvis Costello, a best-of for Bob Dylan should be at least 10 albums long. Yet Columbia has narrowed it down to 16 songs with "The Best of Bob Dylan," not to be confused with "Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits," "The Very Best of Bob Dylan" or "Biograph." Or anything by Springsteen, for that matter. It comes out Tuesday.Paging readersFrank McCourt finishes (I think) his memoirs with "Teacher Man" (Scribner), the follow-up to "Angela's Ashes" and " 'Tis." It comes out Tuesday.For trivia buffs such as me, this is one of the big releases of the year: The 2006 World Almanac and Book of Facts (World Almanac) comes out Tuesday.Video center"Madagascar" comes out on video Tuesday. (Watch an exclusive clip from the DVD -- 0:28)Just last week there was the big "Sex and the City" box. Now comes the "Friends" DVD box -- all 10 seasons, together for the first time. For some people, this will keep them occupied until January. It comes out Tuesday.