I expect to see much better sales for Indiana Jones or the Dark Knight.

Iron Man success actually caught the studios off guard as Blue Ray were sold out at a lot of retail locations in my area and I had a hard time finding one.
I'm expecting future blockbusters releases adapt to this new sale pattern.


I woudn't expect Matrix to bread records.
It's one thing to get a new movie you don't own in Blue Ray, it's another to expect people to buy a Blue Ray when they already own the DVD...( only exception would be LOTR, I know there are a lot of crazy fans like me that will buy the Blue Ray the day they come but well I already have 3 dvd copies of each LOTR movies lol...)

Ahh...

Good job Iron Man.

Shush the Blu-ray haterz out there.

Dark Knight will be Blu Ray's Matrix.

if only HDDVD was chosen instead we wouldn't be having this conversation

Sure we would.

You think the price difference is due to cost difference to make the discs ?

Think again, writable Blue Rays sells for less than 4$ to the public in Japan, it has to cost even less to the Blue Ray makers.

There are 2 factors :

- DVD price is going down
- Unwillingness of producers to drop the price of new format to the low level DVDs are now ( which are starting to be not sustainable for movie makers I would believe).

I would be surprised at this point if the cost difference to make a DVD or  Blue Ray was more than 3$ or so...........

Last I remember HD-DVD weren't much cheaper than Blue Ray when the war was still going on... HD-DVD prices only went down when the fire sale started after HD-DVD lost

That's what up...it certainly is worth every dime and penny for it to be on Blu-ray. It was the best summer movie until Dark Knight released that is....hehe

I'm confused.  You think that if HD-DVD won, out of the goodness of their hearts, movie studios would start releasing HD-DVD movies for dirt cheap?  Where was all this "generosity" when they (Toshiba and HD-DVD backers) needed it (the format war)?

Ah, but how well will it sell in Australia?

Really? I think Animated films benefit greatly and look splendid on Blu-Ray, Ratatouille was the shiz

i own iron man on dvd and bluray, not gonna get the dark knight. because i thought it was very weak in story and i liked the 2 batman movies that tim burton directed better, just my opinon. i am getting transformers and the matrix movies on bluray next.