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Posted by ninphan on 09/19/07 16:23
> To hit some highlights: All Mission Impossible Films, all Indiana
> Jones films (including thet one in production now), the Jurassic Park
> films, highest grossing movie of all time Titanic and last, but not
> least all Star Trek releases, including the season boxed sets to all
> television incarnations as well as the movies. Blu-Ray looks less
> appealing each month. When at sub $200 player hits at Walmart within a
> few months I believe the tide will shift quickly and those betting on
> Blu-Ray will realize how poor of a choice that was.
Whoopsie daisies - someone spoke too soon.
The Mission Impossible films are already out on both HD DVD and Blu-
ray.
Future Mission Impossible films will be Blu-ray only as they are now
United Artists property and as such distributed by MGM.
Titanic is a production of both Paramount and Fox so it will be HD DVD
only in USA and Blu-ray only in the rest of the world. Fox will be
releasing it in both UK and Japan which means it will be an all
regions release.
Jurassic Park is directed by Steven Spielberg, as are the Indiana
Jones movies. No Spielberg movies are allowed to be released
exclusively on HD DVD as the director controls them. He is releasing
his first film on Blu-ray Disc in November and has recorded a new high
definition introduction to it and is said to be immensely pleased with
the Blu-ray release. That movie? Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
That means no Indiana Jones movie, no Jurassic Park movie, no Jaws, no
Saving Private Ryan, no Minority Report, no Munich, no War of the
Worlds, no Schindler's List, etc., etc., etc.
>From the Viacom (Dreamworks SKG/Paramount Pictures parent company)
press release:
http://www.viacom.com/NEWS/NewsText.aspx?RID=1042073
"Today's announcement does not include films directed by Steven
Spielberg as his films are not exclusive to either format."
Not exclusive to either format (unless of course it's Blu-ray - see
Close Encounters for further proof of that)
It should also be noted that this deal has only 18 months to it and it
is rumoured that it there is a notwithstanding clause that states if
Time Warner goes Blu-ray exclusive at any time in said 18 months, as
they are expected to do next year (Time Warner are on the Blu-ray Disc
Association's Board of Directors) the 18 month deal can be opted out
of.
No, Blu-ray is looking better and better everyday. Sales of Blu-ray
Discs are still 2:1 over HD DVD. When Blades of Glory and Heroes
Season 1 came out exclusively on HD DVD a few Tuesdays ago and Blu-ray
had ZERO new releases, Blu-ray still won that week's sales 56:44!
Exclusive day and date releases by format heading into 4th quarter
HD DVD
Knocked Up
Bourne Ulitmatum
Transformers
Chuck and Larry
Star Trek First Season
Evan Almighty
A Mighty Heart
Shrek 3
Blu-ray
Spiderman 3
Die Hard 4
Fantastic Four 2
Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Ratatouille
Surf's Up
28 Weeks Later
Reign Over Me
Lost Season 3
The Hills Have Eyes 2
Hostel II
Mr. Brooks
Meet The Robinsons
Hairspray
Underdog
Neutral biggies
Oceans 13
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
When "300" came out the Blu-ray outsold the HD DVD 1.91:1 in the first
week, then 2.47:1 and 2.22:1 in the second and third weeks.
Expect more of the same with those last two titles there in the
neutral section.
Blu-ray disc sales this Christmas are going to trounce HD DVD sales.
New Blu-ray players/camcorders/pcdrives announced for the holiday
season and first half of 2008
JVC
Denon
Daewoo
Loewe
Sharp
Sony
Samsung
Panasonic
Philips
Pioneer
Hitachi
Funai
Ben-Q
On the HD DVD side
Toshiba
Venturer
Onkyo
Integra
So you seriously think Blu-ray purchasers are going to think THEY have
made a bad decision? Not likely.
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