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Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 09/19/07 17:22
In article <1190218997.540482.300690@50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
ninphan <sjburke73@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
All this is very nice. Now let's talk about the price you'll see in the
store for the 2 HD format players:
BluRay about $500 entry level and up (quite a bit) from there. The big
downside is that all of them are Level 1 players, not a single one
upgradeable to the new (as of 10/31/2007) profile, with the possible
exception of the PS3. Denon had announced one with the new profile, but
that has been delayed until after the 1st of the year.
HDDVD about $200 entry level and up from there
Combo - no one knows for sure, but maybe a $600 one by November.
At these prices, either HDDVD wins this shopping season, on no one wins.
BD won't win EVER at a $500+ entry price point. That is unless you want
HiDef DVD to stay at 1% of the total DVD marketplace, which is hardly
winning.
Personally I think this phony 'war' will keep going for quite a while
longer.
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