Posted by yoman on 01/05/08 14:00

We can only hope that hd-dvd can pull something out of their hats, for
the North-American market, but even if they could, it would still mean
that both formats will linger side-by-side for years to come. Can the
world handle two Hi-Def markets? Besides all of the so-called
"Confused" Hi-Def consumers, if those people even exist, I believe we
could handle it. Ya know, he who has an HD-DVD player keeps his HD-DVD
player, Blu-Ray, and vice versa.

Retailers have other ideas. They only want what is sold off of store
shelves as fast as possible for as much profit as possible, and maybe
as much kickbacks as possible. So, places like blockbuster started the
"Retailers can choose who wins the format war" game. A few chose blu-
ray, a few chose HD-DVD, and many remained neutral. While that
probably did help blu-ray a bit, the next move was about the studio
support. Paramount went to HD-DVD, and now, a major studio with even
more in their movie library went to blu-ray, and now, the war seems
all but over in North-America.

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At least we have appx 500 titles in North-America, probably 100 or
more unique titles in other continents that are easily imported, and
even though North-American and Japanese HD-DVD may be doomed, many
Europeans have embraced the HD-DVD format over Blu-Ray, although blu-
ray camp will try to dispell that. Here are just a few European
studios releasing movies for HD-DVD:

Paramount, Dreamworks,
Kinowelt (T-2), Toshiba (Band of brothers), Concorde (Silent Hill,
Underworld, Tomb Raider),
Constantine Films (releasing sony's Resident Evil Trilogy in Germany),
universal, Studio Canal (Releasing Disney, MGM, and Fox movies),
Weinstein Company (Grindhouse), highlight (perfume, story of murder,
fantastic four, rise of the silver surfer), dfw (dutch film works, Saw
trilogy), EMS, Filmax (Underworld Evolution), Galileo, TF1 (Le vie en
rose), Monolith Films (mr and mrs smith), Ascot Elite (Bug), Universum
Film (crank), Imagion, Pathe (enemy at the gates), SHV, SPI (Hannibal
Rising), DeA Plaeta (American Haunting), Moviemax (bridge to
terabithia), Optimum (brotherhood of the wolf), etc.

As you can see, HD-DVD has a whole lot of studio support in Europe. HD-
DVD isn't going anywhere any time soon.

Here are several links to places any one can buy import hd-dvd titles.
There could literally be thousands more HD-DVDs released in Europe in
the coming years, including blu-ray exclusive releases in the US. Some
examples of blu-ray exclusives released or going to be released soon
on HD-DVD imports: fantastic four, fantastic four rise of the silver
surfer, silent hill, Resident Evil Trilogy and CGI (RE1 in Japan,
RE1-3 in Germany, RE degeneration in Germany), Bridge to Terabithia
(Disney, Spain, Italian), Rambo Trilogy (Australia, UK, France, etc)
and many others.

Amazon Japan http://www.amazon.co.jp/
Amazon UK http://www.amazon.co.uk/
Amazon France http://www.amazon.fr/
Amazon Germany http://www.amazon.de/
CD Japan http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/
Yes Asia http://global.yesasia.com/en/index.aspx
Play Asia http://www.play-asia.com/
Xploited Cinema (in USA) http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/index.php
HD Addicts (Canada) http://www.hdaddicts.com/catalog/
DVD Therapy http://www.dvdtherapy.com/shoppingcart/
DVDGO (Spain) http://www.dvdgo.com/
EDVD (Poland) http://www.edvd.pl/
Merlin.pl (Poland) http://www.merlin.com.pl/frontend/browse/home.html
HD Movie Source (USA) http://www.hdmoviesource.com/catalog/
EZYDVD (Australia) http://www.ezydvd.com.au/
Sendit (UK) http://www.sendit.com/
HMV Japan http://www.hmv.co.jp/
DVDit (Italy) http://www.dvd.it/page/welc/nlang/en/
Blah DVD http://www.blahdvd.com/blah/Home.aspx
DVD Co UK http://www.dvd.co.uk/
DVD Source http://www.dvdsource.co.uk/
HMV UK http://www.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/home.do
Play UK http://www.play.com/
FNAC (France) http://www.fnac.com/
DVD Enlard http://www.dvdenlared.com/hd-dvd/
FNAC (Spain) http://www.fnac.es/dsp/?servlet=home.HomeServlet
1A DVD (Swiss) http://www.1advd.ch/
Disc Shop (Swedish) http://www.discshop.se/shop/index.php
DVD Crave (Australia) http://www.dvdcrave.com/
Axel Music http://www.axelmusic.com/
Buy HD Online http://www.buyhdonline.com/
Ro-Disc http://www.rodisc.nl/

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