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Coca-Cola on 05 January 2008

I hope Paramount continues with HDDVD. Paramount had the best year in 2007 and their movies will come out on HDDVD and I will definitely buy them.

If people continue to buy HDDVD, maybe other studios will make their movies available for us. If not, I'll buy movies on DVD.

DVD will be around for at least 5 more years



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ssj12 on 05 January 2008
Coca-Cola said:
I hope Paramount continues with HDDVD. Paramount had the best year in 2007 and their movies will come out on HDDVD and I will definitely buy them.

If people continue to buy HDDVD, maybe other studios will make their movies available for us. If not, I'll buy movies on DVD.

DVD will be around for at least 5 more years

 Paramount isonly with HD-DVD due to Microsoft's 120 million and the contract making it so that they have to release movies till the end of 2008 or HD-DVD folds.



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ssj12 on 05 January 2008
Yojimbo said:
Wow is Michealbay always this bitchy?

 he isnt bitching he is telling his opinion openly. He doesnt like his movies on HD-DVD. He supports Blu-ray. 

I think he needs to setup a contract like Spielburg in which all his movies are only released on Blu-ray. 



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Teragen on 05 January 2008
Machina-AX said:
What films has 'The Weinsten Company' made? I've never heard of them.

 Wikipedia is your friend...

 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weinstein_Company



Coca-Cola on 05 January 2008

Yay, Rambo is made by Weinsten!
Rambo on steroids killing bad guys on HDDVD! Awesome



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hunter_alien on 05 January 2008
IllegalPaladin said:
crumas2 said:
hunter_alien said:

Yep , it seams that HD-DVD owners will never see high-def orcs or goblins ... why , because New Line had decided to go Blu-ray exclusive , just like its owner , Warner . This wasnt unexpected , but still , its a great news . It seams that the HD war could be over in matter of months .

 

http://www.themanroom.com/news/news/New_Line_Confirms_Going_Blu-ray_Exclusive/1889

 

Oh, no! Please say it isn't true??? HD-DVD owners will never be allowed to buy a Blu-ray player??


Maybe I'm missing something, but how does New Line releasing Blu-Ray titles mean HD-DVD owners will never be allowed to buy a blu-ray player?


He cant read the bolded part ... thats all ...



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makingmusic476 on 05 January 2008
madskillz said:
Sweet - goodbye region free movies, hello region locking!!!!!! I am too excited!

Only new releases (less than a year old) are required to be region locked on Blu-Ray, and this is purely to solve international release issues. For example, Hairspray has been released on both Blu-Ray and DVD in the US, but New Line was forced to hold of on the HD DVD release because it would infringe on the theatrical runs of the film in Europe, where it is still being played.

Most older films (1+ years old) are not region encoded on Blu-Ray.

How is region encoding a bad thing in this situation?

 



makingmusic476 on 05 January 2008
crumas2 said:
Coca-Cola said:
It sucks that the studios will not allow us consumers to decide.

I chose HDDVD because it was cheaper - I don't really care of the specs. Movies are awesome on HDDVD.

I would have bought movies made by Disney and others if they will release them on HDDVD.

Looks like the war is coming to an end - and I will choose DVD. Was thinking about BR, but not gonna happen for a long time.

 

I, too, hate to see this. HD-DVD was definitely a better format (particularly considering the feature set with overlays, etc., doing with finess what Blu-ray had to do via brute force with more raw storage), but I can't really say the studios are at fault. They have to make money, and supporting two failing HD formats is very expensive. Had the HD camps taken over the DVD market, it might have gone on for a lot longer. As it is now, Blu-ray will have a somewhat better chance of surviving... depends on the adoption rate vs DVD now.


The price argument is weak. The price difference was only 50-100$ in the few weeks before Christmas, so Blu-Ray wasn't all that much more expensive.  In addition to this, combo discs on the HD DVD side were usually priced HIGHER than the same title on Blu-Ray.  Blu-Ray is more expensive, really.  :|

Both formats would've hit DVD pricing eventually anyway.

As for your storage feature set complaints, the only thing Blu-Ray was missing was a second video decoder, which is now mandatory via BD profile 1.1.

All your complaints only matter to early adopters, and the end result would be the same for everybody else for either format.  Cheap players, PiP, etc.  However, storage size and bitrates could not be changed.  Blu-Ray would always have the advantage.



ferret1094 on 05 January 2008
madskillz said:
Sweet - goodbye region free movies, hello region locking!!!!!! I am too excited!

I bought a multi-region DVD player for £20. The same thing'll happen with Blu Ray. Regions are just a temporary inconvenience fortunately, I wish the same could be said with regions on console games.



makingmusic476 on 05 January 2008
ferret1603 said:
madskillz said:
Sweet - goodbye region free movies, hello region locking!!!!!! I am too excited!

I bought a multi-region DVD player for £20. The same thing'll happen with Blu Ray. Regions are just a temporary inconvenience fortunately, I wish the same could be said with regions on console games.


 PS3 games are region free. :)