[hd-dvd] Batman Begins, Harry Potter, The Matrix, Superman and Poseidon Coming Soon

[Titanio]

Warner is obviously *the* studio on HD-DVD's side of the fence, and though they are with Blu-ray now too, I'm sure they'd rather see HD-DVD succeed.

Not really, that would be Universal.

Warner will announce the same for Blu-ray in due course. Although it's odd, because I spotted at least one Warner title (Troy) in that photo of various Blu-ray titles, so one wonders when they will announce.

I thought Disney was on Blu-Ray's side? But they have yet to announce any titles which is weird. As we get closer and closer to HD-DVD's launch it seems these movie studios are having second thoughts.

Disney decided to wait till today to announce their titles. The BDA presentation is happening today. Maybe Warner will announce then too, who knows, or maybe they'll wait a couple of weeks, or longer to throw HD-DVD a perceived bone.

For exclusive material, BDROM has ~50% (Sony and MGM)

20th Century Fox and Liongate are also exclusive. As are Disney as far as I know. About 63 titles have been officially announced for Blu-ray sofar, with Disney and Warner pending, ~84% of which are exclusive. 44 have been announced for HD-DVD, with Universal still pending (?), 7&% of which are exclusive until Warner announces for Blu-ray (and maybe Universal will, eventually, if rumour is believed) If you totalled them, 97 titles in total have been announced across both formats, 51% of which are exclusive to Blu-ray, 35% exclusive to HD-DVD, again pending Warner & Disney Blu-ray announcements (so it turns out you were roughly right, though I'm counting Warner as HD-DVD exclusive for the moment )

edit - I missed the Universal announcement

 

[Bad_Boy]

some blu-ray movies @ ces

 

[Titanio]

some blu-ray movies @ ces

In my CES thread Where all this stuff really ought to be. I'll be updating the first post in it later, with all Blu-ray, HD-DVD, PS3, X360 news, so you can catch it all in one place rather than trawling through multiple long threads

 

[Bad_Boy]

Sorry about that, wrong thread indeed.

 

[c0_re]

As good as this news is(I want a High Def DVD player like 2 years ago Blu_ray HDDVD I couldc are aless) I still think the "perception" by most is that Blue-Ray is the superior format which in some aspects it is, the problem is Bill Gates is dead on in 2 years we'll have a format thats so far beyond both Blu-Ray and HDDVD it'll just be silly.

Thats why I think HDDVD is current best solution, simple, cheap and it does the job.

 

[Titanio]

As good as this news is(I want a High Def DVD player like 2 years ago Blu_ray HDDVD I couldc are aless) I still think the "perception" by most is that Blue-Ray is the superior format which in some aspects it is, the problem is Bill Gates is dead on in 2 years we'll have a format thats so far beyond both Blu-Ray and HDDVD it'll just be silly.

Bill Gates did not say that. He said these might be the last optical formats, which is a very different statement entirely.

And MS is clearly now throwing itself behind HD-DVD, and it's not for "2 years"..

 

[London Geezer]

HD DVD backers promise 200 movies

 

[inefficient]

Is it just me or is this thing frikin huge? Thats not a reference player that is going to be the first commercial player for HD-DVD $799.99.

That thing is bigger than some PCs now days. It looks even bigger than old school VCRs IIRC. I'm really curious what exactly is taking up that much space inside that box?

 

[London Geezer]

Is it just me or is this thing frikin huge? Thats not a reference player that is going to be the first commercial player for HD-DVD $799.99.

That thing is bigger than some PCs now days. It looks even bigger than old school VCRs IIRC. I'm really curious what exactly is taking up that much space inside that box?

A little guy who comes out sometimes and goes "Hello Tosh"

 

[c0_re]

Bill Gates did not say that. He said these might be the last optical formats, which is a very different statement entirely.

And MS is clearly now throwing itself behind HD-DVD, and it's not for "2 years"..

I wouldn't say the are "clearly" throwing themselves behind anything, they chose HDDVD simply because it's not Sony and it's more inline with what M$ wants simple as that.

Oh yes your right my bad, either way HDDVD and Blu-Ray are both like DVD 1.5 when you look at some of the new storage solutions(optical and otherwise) right around the corner(aka 2 years or so) both he new formats are mostly meh. I mean look at the ne holographic disk designs, were talking terabytes on a single platter instead of Gigabytes.(not that this is a viable consumer solution for moveis and what not)

 

[London Geezer]

I wouldn't say the are "clearly" throwing themselves behind anything, they chose HDDVD simply because it's not Sony and it's more inline with what M$ wants simple as that.

Oh yes your right my bad, either way HDDVD and Blu-Ray are both like DVD 1.5 when you look at some of the new storage solutions(optical and otherwise) right around the corner botht he new formats are meh.

Right around the corner? Where did you get that idea?

 

[mckmas8808]

Oh yes your right my bad, either way HDDVD and Blu-Ray are both like DVD 1.5 when you look at some of the new storage solutions(optical and otherwise) right around the corner(aka 2 years or so) both he new formats are mostly meh. I mean look at the ne holographic disk designs, were talking terabytes on a single platter instead of Gigabytes.(not that this is a viable consumer solution for moveis and what not)

First you guys say nobody will have 1080p TVs so how cares about it. Now when you get a 1080p movie media disc you say 1080p isn't enough. Some of you people are just plain weird.

 

[Deepak]

I am sick of this HVD blah-blah, it is years away from commercialisation....these big corporations must be silly to put their energies in HD-DVD/BR, someone please tell them about HVD...

 

[mckmas8808]

I am sick of this HVD blah-blah, it is years away from commercialisation....these big corporations must be silly to put their energies in HD-DVD/BR, someone please tell them about HVD...

Thank you.

 

[linthat22]

New Line is expected to make an announcement about the LOTR trilogy by the end of the week.

That's what I'm waiting on. That and Star Wars to hell with the rest, cause those 2 are big names. I'm sure there are others out there. But those 2 movie franchises are what's going to deterermine my choice between bluray or hd-dvd.

Of course they'll probably come out with universal players like they do now for SACD and regular DVD-audio and DTS CDs. So who know's.