Future Blu-Ray and HD DVD disc release schedules

[Deleted member 7537]

Release dates:

January 23rd 2007
Blu-Ray Releases

Alien vs. Predator
Black Rain
Casanova
Chicago
Courage Under Fire
The Guardian
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Manchurian Candidate
Men of Honor
Saw II
Saw III
We Were Soldiers


HD-DVD Releases

Black Rain
Brokeback Mountain

January 30th 2007

Blu-Ray Releases

Beerfest
Flyboys
Hart's War
Open Season
The Wicker Man (2006)


HD-DVD Releases

Beerfest
Half Baked
The Wicker Man (2006)

February 6th 2007

Blu-Ray Releases

American Psycho
Failure to Launch
Rambo: First Blood
Reservoir Dogs
Running with Scissors
The Tailor of Panama


HD-DVD Releases

Failure to Launch
Hollywoodland

February 13th 2007

Blu-Ray Releases

Broken Arrow
Chain Reaction
The Departed
Entrapment
Ladder 49
Marie Antoinette
The Marine
Phone Booth
Planet of the Apes
Reign of Fire
The Sentinel
The Usual Suspects


HD-DVD Releases

The Departed

February 20th 2007

Blu-Ray Releases

Babel
The Prestige
Vertical Limit


HD-DVD Releases

Babel

February 27th 2007

Blu-Ray Releases

Bullitt
The Getaway (1972)
Stranger than Fiction


HD-DVD Releases

Bullitt
The Getaway (1972)

March 13th 2007

Blu-Ray Releases

Casino Royale
Commando
Dances with Wolves
Dodgeball
Hoosiers
Ice Age
Layer Cake
Mr. & Mrs. Smith
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)


HD-DVD Releases

Releases To Be Announced

March 20th 2007

Blu-Ray Releases

Big Fish
Chicken Little
Finding Neverland


HD-DVD Releases

Releases To Be Announced

March 27th 2007

Blu-Ray Releases

Happy Feet


HD-DVD Releases

Happy Feet

April 3rd 2007

Blu-Ray Releases

Dude, Where's My Car?
The Fly (1986)
G.I. Janes
Hannibal
King Arthur: Director's Cut
Me, Myself & Irene
The Silence of the Lambs
Tristan & Isolde

HD-DVD Releases

Releases To Be Announced

April 10th 2007 & Beyond

Blu-Ray Releases
Con Air
Crimson Tide
Payback: Director's Cut
The Rock
Turistas


HD-DVD Releases

Payback: Director's Cut
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[Rangers]

Blu-Ray got it's predictable PS3 bump..very slim really though, I work distribution and I still see next to no Blu-Ray (or HDDVD) disks come through (about the same of each).

I think HDDVD just needs to wedge in an hardware base over the next year or two. They just need to tie. The lower priced players should help that.

Funny thing is it could be that Sony wins the Blu-Ray battle over HDDVD and loses the PS3 war to Xbox360...in fact that looks almost certain right now. I wonder if they think it is worth it?

It's clear to me MS is content to let HDDVD lose, otherwise they would subsidize that 360 add on...to be like $99 or so. Or if they really wanted to get serious put hddvd in 360 by default..but clearly they wont.

 

[London Geezer]

I think HDDVD just needs to wedge in an hardware base over the next year or two. They just need to tie. The lower priced players should help that.

Mmm... As "crap" as PS3 will sell at the current price - which is not crap by any means unless you compare it to other consoles - it will be more than HDDVD players sales for a long time, if not always.

 

[Capeta]

300 HD DVD titles for 2007...

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/417

 

[Deleted member 7537]

300 HD DVD titles for 2007...

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/417

I'll believe it when i see it.

 

[Capeta]

I'll believe it when i see it.

Why would they lie? They haven't so far. You haven't been paying attention to the 2007 CES much have you? HD DVD group has been delivering everything they had promised so far while BR group have undelivered so far. I see ZERO reason to be skepticle of HD DVD's announcements.

HD DVD : under-promise, over-deliver
BR : over-promise, under-deliver

 

[Ty]

Why would they lie? They haven't so far. You haven't been paying attention to the 2007 CES much have you? HD DVD group has been delivering everything they had promised so far while BR group have undelivered so far. I see ZERO reason to be skepticle of HD DVD's announcements.

HD DVD : under-promise, over-deliver
BR : over-promise, under-deliver

I don't think he's saying it's a lie, merely PR marketing speak analogous to how console manufacturers (Sony & MS) say they're going to have hundreds of titles by X date but maybe miss that target.

Some good titles in that line up for sure. Are they exclusive?

 

[Geo]

Only Universal is exclusive, I think. Paramount and Warners are both, aren't they? The dual format titles will be interesting to see how they sell in each format, if we can even get that information. That's true apples-to-apples there.

 

[Dave Baumann]

They are dual format, although CBS has just set up a division to author HD disks for both formats, then promptly announced Star Trek TOS (Paramount) on HD DVD/DVD Combo disks.

 

[Bobbler]

Why would they lie? They haven't so far. You haven't been paying attention to the 2007 CES much have you? HD DVD group has been delivering everything they had promised so far while BR group have undelivered so far. I see ZERO reason to be skepticle of HD DVD's announcements.

HD DVD : under-promise, over-deliver
BR : over-promise, under-deliver

Well, they said 300 or so were available in '06 and there was around 160 different titles in the US available.

That 300 number is worldwide and includes a lot of duplicates and titles that universal/warner/paramount don't have the distribution rights to in the US. You'll likely see something like 160-180 in the US. A lot of those 160-180 will be hitting BR too (quite likely over half).

 

[Bobbler]

They are dual format, although CBS has just set up a division to author HD disks for both formats, then promptly announced Star Trek TOS (Paramount) on HD DVD/DVD Combo disks.

Which is coming out at the very end of '07 for HD DVD and the very beginning of '08 for BR, apparently. The assumed exclusivity was misunderstood in that it'll only be out a week or two in HD DVD before BR (for whatever reason), which happens to be across the new years mark making it seem like a longer term delay.

 

[Bobbler]

Only Universal is exclusive, I think. Paramount and Warners are both, aren't they? The dual format titles will be interesting to see how they sell in each format, if we can even get that information. That's true apples-to-apples there.

Thinking about it a little, I'm not even sure that'd be an apples to apples comparison when you have one side that is content constrained and one side that isn't as much -- look at departed sales now on Amazon, for example...

HD DVD sales of The Departed are doing a little bit better, but overall BR sales are doing a bit better than HD DVD sales this last week. It seems to be a matter of the amount of content is almost over saturating the install base (only very slightly; or maybe HD DVD is starving and people who may not otherwise purchase The Departed are -- who knows) -- judging by total sales volume vs sales volume of a given disc per format (total sales of all BD discs are higher, but sales of Departed on HD DVD is higher, even in the face of BD version being cheaper).

You'd need a week or two where there are no other notable titles except dual format stuff, and then you may be able to make a pretty decent comparison. As it stands, it'd be pretty hard to do any sort of comparison in any of the coming weeks (unless universal announces some release dates, so we can look at a comparably flooded or dry release week).

 

[Capeta]

Well, they said 300 or so were available in '06 and there was around 160 different titles in the US available.

That 300 number is worldwide and includes a lot of duplicates and titles that universal/warner/paramount don't have the distribution rights to in the US. You'll likely see something like 160-180 in the US. A lot of those 160-180 will be hitting BR too (quite likely over half).

I don't recall the HD DVD group saying they'll have 300 HD DVDs available in 2006.

 

[Bobbler]

I don't recall the HD DVD group saying they'll have 300 HD DVDs available in 2006.

It was mentioned during CES -- they said they released 300 last year and will release 300 this year (now that I think about it, maybe it was 250 they said? -- it was one of those two, regardless, it was also a worldwide number). It's a worldwide number and most of them will also be on BR, that shouldn't really come as a surprise.

 

[scooby_dooby]

It was mentioned during CES -- they said they released 300 last year and will release 300 this year (now that I think about it, maybe it was 250 they said? -- it was one of those two, regardless, it was also a worldwide number). It's a worldwide number and most of them will also be on BR, that shouldn't really come as a surprise.

Hmmm?? That link he posted was a summary of their conference at CES. It doesn't sound like they said anything of the sort.

Jan 08, 2007 - the HD DVD Promotions Group today promised will be a total of at least 300 new titles on the format in the next year,

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/417

Do you have a link??

 

[Bobbler]

It isn't likely to be something that is reported on, as the important information was the future release number, but if you read AVSforum, it's been mentioned dozens of times.

I'll see if I can find something though.

edit: after looking a bit I found the CES press release from the HD DVD group...

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070107/nysu054.html?.v=1

announcing more than 300 additional movie titles that will be available this year, for an expected total of more than 600 titles worldwide.

By the holidays, we'll have more than 600 movies available globally

~600 titles worldwide by the end of '07, including the 300 additional this year. According to HD DVD group they released ~300 titles last year -- NA saw around 165 titles in the US last year, you can count on a similar ratio this year (as there isn't any reason for it to change drastically).

You're looking at 160-180 titles in NA this year on HD DVD. It's a lot still, but when most of those will hit BR too, the impact is somewhat reduced (especially when BR's list is likely a lot bigger still and will include more of the recent blockbusters of the last ~7 years, since Universal has more or less been insignificant in the last 5 years).

 

[Capeta]

Not to nitpick but "more than 300" could be from 301-399 if they are rounding to every one hundred.

 

[Bobbler]

Not to nitpick but "more than 300" could be from 301-399 if they are rounding to every one hundred.

You think PR press release is going to round 399 down to 300? They'll state 400 if it's anywhere close to it -- nobody really holds them to these things.