HD-DVD

JUMPURS said:
tbh in my local one of those shops they have about 6 blu-Ray films and 1 HD-DVD. I wished they would get more in.
TBH i personally have been looking a lot at both formats on a usa.com web sites, looking for Blu-Ray movies but also looking at the HD-DVD's and to be fair, neither format has any movies that jump 'BUY ME' to me, besides Bullitt and Casino Royale. I bought CR, and will get Bullitt eventually, just don't see how that movie (My fav of all time btw) will benefit in HD.
But there are some big hitters still to come for BluRay exclusives. I mean the Spider-Man movies will be huge on BD. Also pirates is an exlcusive to BluRay, and that will be a Mega Trilogy too. Now if only Sony could get more game exclusives lol
If HD-DVD had more backing etc i would probably buy a stand alone HD-DVD player, but for me, it just doesn't have the movies. and i wouldn't be surprised if Universal go dual format before the year is up.
I personally can't see Dual format being the way to go, and personally would rather one format became the norm, and the sooner the better imo.
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Blu-Ray actually has more released titles than HD-DVD (FACT). I don't think we can count the 10 million 360's as potential HD-DVD drives as Microsoft do not actually have the capability to build that many (hence the shortages).


HD-DVD producing studios:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
New Line Cinema
Paramount Pictures
The Walt Disney Company
Universal Studios
Warner Bros.

Blu-Ray producing studios:
20th Century Fox
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MGM Studios
Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
The Walt Disney Company
Warner Bros.


I don't know how anyone can look at the list and assume one format has better films. The types of films will vary greatly.

Of the top of my head, Matrix Trilogy will be out in HD-DVD in next couple of months whereas Blu-ray doesn't have a release date (it will get it but no-one know when).

Blu-ray has Bond films and the Pirates films (I think). I believe the last 2 pirates films were the fastest selling DVDs or something at time of release. Same goes for Spiderman franchise. managing to get a Blu-ray release in amazon's top 10 sellers is the first sign I think of Blu-ray winning.

There are more exclusives, but I can't think of any big hitters for now.

Microsoft and Intel are not on the consortium for HD-DVD or Blu-ray but they both very publicly stated they were 100% behind HD-DVD. If they had picked Blu-ray this all would have been over by now. The fact they picked HD-DVD just prolonged things.

Ultimately, I think the biggest issues will be the ICT flag and region coding. the winner of the format war will not be a format that does not enforce region coding (The studios are not ready to give this up yet). the day the ICT flag is enabled people without HDMI will be stuffed, this includes the 200,00 HD-DVD owners who have 360s.

Just my thoughts on the subject.

That is all.


rp2000
 
Bobbler said:
Dunno, personally I think neither HD or Blueray will win the format war...it will be IP based movie services which will negate the need for either IMO.
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You're wrong - think again.

How many poeple have PC's or HD PVRs connected to their TVs ? - very few - how many people have broadband connections capable of supporting a stable HD stream ? - again very few.

People like to give and receive DVDs for presents - this will be the same for HD / blu-ray films. MP3 downloads did not kill the CD either.
 
Bobbler said:
Dunno, personally I think neither HD or Blueray will win the format war...it will be IP based movie services which will negate the need for either IMO.
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Id rather have my movies on discs as would a lot of other people i presume. Its about actually owning something for your money. Beside it's hassle if your hard drive goes and you have to download all your movies again. I really doubt it will be this generation they will move to that.
 
rp2000 said:

HD-DVD producing studios:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
New Line Cinema
Paramount Pictures
The Walt Disney Company
Uniserval Sutdios (Inc Rogue pictures and Focus features)
The Weinstein Company/Genius Products (Inc Dimension Films)
DreamWorks
Warner bros. Pictures
HBO
Studio Canal
Image entertainment (Inc discovery channel)
Magnolia Pictures
Brentwood Home Video

Blu-Ray producing studios:
20th Century Fox
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MGM Studios
Paramount Pictures
Sony Pictures Entertainment
The Walt Disney Company
Warner Bros
Lionsgate
Dreamworks
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Fixed.
 
Mr_White said:
Fixed.
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Walt disney & Buena Vista??? seriously where do you get your info. These are Bluray exclusives.

How about MAJOR studios.

BLURAY

20th Century Fox
Disney/Buena Vista
Lionsgate
MGM/UA
Sony Pictures

HDDVD

Universal
 
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johnnyfive said:
Walt disney & Buena Vista??? seriously where do you get your info.

These are Bluray exclusives.
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If you used your eyes you would see I didn't add them, although you don't even have a source for your information.
 
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johnnyfive said:
UMD was hardly a serious movie format was it. And 20million psps sold doesn't sound like failure.
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UMD was a failure and PSP is behind Nintendo DS in format sales. As there are only 2 formats only one can be a sales winner and as a result, the PSP is the sales loser. 20million sales or not.[/QUOTE]
 
Mr_White said:
If you used your eyes you would see I didn't add them, although you don't even have a source for your information.
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FIXED << you didn't do a good job.

I Really don't need a source for Disney Buena Vista. Its common knowlege.
 
Mr_White said:
Fixed.
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I got my stuff from wikipedia or some webpage so it could be some of it is out of date. Can I ask where you got your updated lists from, for reference?


rp2000
 
johnnyfive said:
FIXED << you didn't do a good job.

I Really don't need a source for Disney Buena Vista. Its common knowlege.
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Well yes, you do.

It's common knowledge they're supporting BluRay.

Where did they say they're supporting it exclusively.

As far as I know they're still open to releasing films on HD-DVD.
 
Mr_White said:
Fixed.
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Not really for a Start, HBO and New Line are both with BlouRay also, witht he sopranos coming to BluRay and HD-DVD at the same time ;)

Also Discovery channel is also releasing stuff on Blu-Ray too

So you added studios to HD-DVD and didn't add them to Blu-Ray what you should have said was 'Made biased'

Can't believe this arguement is going on tbh.
 
Mr_White said:
Well yes, you do.

It's common knowledge they're supporting BluRay.

Where did they say they're supporting it exclusively.

As far as I know they're still open to releasing films on HD-DVD.
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Agreed,

I think the only exclusives are all Sony studios going with Blu-Ray and Universal going with HD-DVD. Of the other "big" studios" they are all supporting both formats "officially".

I didn't list some of the smaller studios that supported HD-DVD in my list, hence your correction, I assume.


rp2000
 
JUMPURS said:
Not really for a Start, HBO and New Line are both with BlouRay also, witht he sopranos coming to BluRay and HD-DVD at the same time ;)

Also Discovery channel is also releasing stuff on Blu-Ray too

So you added studios to HD-DVD and didn't add them to Blu-Ray what you should have said was 'Made biased'

Can't believe this arguement is going on tbh.
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I never said they were all exclusive now did I.

I was merely adding the studios I knew supported HD-DVD.
 
Mr_White said:
Well yes, you do.

It's common knowledge they're supporting BluRay.

Where did they say they're supporting it exclusively.

As far as I know they're still open to releasing films on HD-DVD.
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By the fact they are supporting it exclusively i thought ;)

If you can find a Disney movie on HD-DVD or a pre order for one, please let me know.
 
Mr_White said:
I never said they were all exclusive now did I.

I was merely adding the studios I knew supported HD-DVD.
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But you said you fixed the list, when you didn't though :confused:

You one sided the list
 
JUMPURS said:
By the fact they are supporting it exclusively i thought ;)

If you can find a Disney movie on HD-DVD or a pre order for one, please let me know.
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Well where's your source then?

You basically just quoted my post and ignored everything that was in it.

They're supporting BluRay, they never said exclusively, and they said they're open to releasing films on HD-DVD.
 
JUMPURS said:
But you said you fixed the list, when you didn't though :confused:

You one sided the list
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I added the studios I knew for HD-DVD and the ones I knew for BluRay, which is more than anyone else is doing.

If you thought you could have done a better job why didn't you?

All I see is you repeating everything johnnyfive says like his puppet.
 
Mr_White said:
All I see is you repeating everything johnnyfive says like his puppet.
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Don't be so mean, this is supposed to be a friendly place !! (I know this is aimed at JUMPURS and not me, but, still!)

Does this help clarify?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...tical_disc_formats#Major_movie_studio_support Note: It says MAJOR studio support. that brentwoodvideo you listed, I looked them up and I have never heard of any film they have released in the last 20 years!!! Dunno if that would be a coup for either format!!


rp2000
 
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