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[Doubledex]

You will not be disappointed sir. I'm assuming you're buying the HD-DVD version (this is the HD movie thread after all), which is from all accounts totally incredible and a true showpiece for an HD setup. I've only seen it in the theater, so I can only comment that the movie itself is awesome. I was going to get the 3-disc Special Edition DVD set since I don't really plan on having an HDTV soon...but after seeing the features of the HD-DVD/DVD combo set, I'm probably going to just buy that, or ask for it for Christmas.

Well, I'm in the Blu-Ray camp, so.... DVD only for me.
I hope Hot Fuzz is good. Now I have to wait (hurry amazon)

 

[OokieSpookie]

What do you guys think Amazon's decrease of stocking of HD films means for the format war?

These days if I don't pre-order stuff months in advance, they don't ship it until a week after the release date or something. Just cancelled my Kubrick stuff after everything was sold out and not shipping and will just pick them up at Best Buy tomorrow with coupons instead.

Do the formats suck so bad right now Amazon is scared to carry more than a handful of copies? Or is Amazon just being lame?

You must be having a bad day or something because that kind of logic just seems very unlike you.

 

[OokieSpookie]

The rest of this year is freaking brutal, you would think they could give our wallets a break for the holidays.

Kicking off with the Spider Man Trilogy and then ...

November:
Battle of Britain
Cars ( I didn't like it but people talk about it alot )
Oldboy ( fuck yes )
Ratatouille
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dragon Ball Z - Broly Double Feature ( I hate DBZ but am being forced to pick it up by friends)
Ocean's Giftset
Badder Santa
Die Hard Collection
Jin-Roh
Paprika

December:
Queen @ Montreal
Pirates 3
ID4
Superbad
Ronin
Harry Potter Collection
Blade Runner Ultimate
Pan's Labyrinth
Simpsons Movie ( not my thing but people seem to like it)

January:
Shoot em up ( maybe )
War
Resident Evil Trilogy
3:10 to Yuma

And I have to be the only one honestly thinking about picking up HDScape: Fireplace and HDScape: Stargaze II

 

[krypt0nian]

3:10 to Yuma

Proof of god's love. I will break my no buy rule for this and Blade Runner briefcase.

 

[CajoleJuice]

Well, I'm in the Blu-Ray camp, so.... DVD only for me.
I hope Hot Fuzz is good. Now I have to wait (hurry amazon)

I would've told you to wait until the 3-Disc Special Edition then, unless you really don't care about extras. I usually don't but the regular DVD release only has one commentary track with Pegg and Wright. The HD-DVD and the 3-disc DVD set have four, including one with most of the actors. Plus, the SE has a cool case.

 

[Stinkles]

I don't see movie downloads being a big deal for 10-15 years, at least to the point where physical media starts to decline at an appreciable rate.

I agree that it's a way off, but 10-15 years is hilariously niaive. Everyone with a cable box will be doing it shortly.

 

[Bebpo]

You must be having a bad day or something because that kind of logic just seems very unlike you.

Well amazon's really getting on my nerves. I don't want to buy in retail stores because it's $5-10 more per disc, but Amazon seems to be out of stock on HD stuff a lot on new release dates. Plus their standard shipping went from "ship on monday -> arrive on wed" to "ship on monday -> arrive the next monday" sometime in the last 3 months as that's what happens when discs do ship for me.

I just want to buy the few HD discs I want to own and get them somewhere around the actual release date instead of 1-2 weeks later when I've sort of lost interest...

 

[Stinkles]

Well amazon's really getting on my nerves. I don't want to buy in retail stores because it's $5-10 more per disc, but Amazon seems to be out of stock on HD stuff a lot on new release dates. Plus their standard shipping went from "ship on monday -> arrive on wed" to "ship on monday -> arrive the next monday" sometime in the last 3 months as that's what happens when discs do ship for me.

I just want to buy the few HD discs I want to own and get them somewhere around the actual release date instead of 1-2 weeks later when I've sort of lost interest...

My Transformers arrived today. Which was annoying.

 

[OokieSpookie]

Well amazon's really getting on my nerves. I don't want to buy in retail stores because it's $5-10 more per disc, but Amazon seems to be out of stock on HD stuff a lot on new release dates. Plus their standard shipping went from "ship on monday -> arrive on wed" to "ship on monday -> arrive the next monday" sometime in the last 3 months as that's what happens when discs do ship for me.

I just want to buy the few HD discs I want to own and get them somewhere around the actual release date instead of 1-2 weeks later when I've sort of lost interest...

Yeah that is fucked up.
I will say that frys.com made a huge fan out of me with their shiping ( 2-3 days with standard shipping) and buy.com where i milk the 10$ off with google check out thanks to unlimited gmail accounts.

Edit : damn Amazon's prices are much better

 

[Warm Machine]

Holy crap!

January is awesome for Blu-Ray action: Shoot'em Up and Con-Air? Yes plz!

Put the bunneh back in the bawks. :lol

Oh, and some Michael Bay piece of shit called The Rock.

BLECH!

So you like Con Air but not The Rock? Simon West and Michael Bay are essentially interchangable. Actually, Bay is the better director and The Rock is the better movie.

 

[Bebpo]

Edit : damn Amazon's prices are much better

Yep. Especially with the bonus 10% off if you did the deal last year.

Anyhow, this has taught me to pre-order further in advance. I just put my pre-order in for the Nov 4th Pixar films. Hope they ship that week (fingers crossed)

 

[captive]

I must be the only person not having problems with amazon
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=8344685&postcount=16549
Aside from my package disappearing being "signed for" by someone that doesnt live in my house. Which magically reappeared friday night with no UPS delivery or anything.


A lot of people like to talk up "special features" and all the other stuff/crap but i think a cool feature would be for example pressing select during playback on the ps3 shows you what song is playing. This would be usefull as a lot of times they use songs not on the soundtrack for instance on Miami Vice(which by the way is still laughably bad) i just spent ten minutes trying to figure out a song by audioslave, very distinctive lead singer voice, but couldnt place it.

 

[mr stroke]

The rest of this year is freaking brutal, you would think they could give our wallets a break for the holidays.

Kicking off with the Spider Man Trilogy and then ...

November:
Battle of Britain
Cars ( I didn't like it but people talk about it alot )
Oldboy ( fuck yes )
Rararouille
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dragon Ball Z - Broly Double Feature ( I hate DBZ but am being forced to pick it up by friends)
Ocean's Giftset
Badder Santa
Die Hard Collection
Jin-Roh
Paprika

December:
Queen @ Montreal
Pirates 3
ID4
Superbad
Ronin
Harry Potter Collection
Blade Runner Ultimate
Pan's Labyrinth
Simpsons Movie ( not my thing but people seem to like it)

January:
Shoot em up ( maybe )
War
Resident Evil Trilogy
3:10 to Yuma

And I have to be the only one honestly thinking about picking up HDScape: Fireplace and HDScape: Stargaze II

damn that list is looking really nice

Pans
Simpsons
Oldboy
BladeRunner
Pirates3

all FTW!!!!!
I don't buy much, mostly rent, but there some good releases coming up that are Day 1 purchases

 

[VanMardigan]

The rest of this year is freaking brutal, you would think they could give our wallets a break for the holidays.

Kicking off with the Spider Man Trilogy and then ...

November:
Battle of Britain
Cars ( I didn't like it but people talk about it alot )
Oldboy ( fuck yes )
Rararouille
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dragon Ball Z - Broly Double Feature ( I hate DBZ but am being forced to pick it up by friends)
Ocean's Giftset
Badder Santa
Die Hard Collection
Jin-Roh
Paprika

December:
Queen @ Montreal
Pirates 3
ID4
Superbad
Ronin
Harry Potter Collection
Blade Runner Ultimate
Pan's Labyrinth
Simpsons Movie ( not my thing but people seem to like it)

January:
Shoot em up ( maybe )
War
Resident Evil Trilogy
3:10 to Yuma

And I have to be the only one honestly thinking about picking up HDScape: Fireplace and HDScape: Stargaze II

If you're format neutral or HD DVD only, take the Warner titles above and add:


November:
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Shrek the Third
Star Trek: The Original Series -- The Complete First Season
Tremors
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (LOVE this movie)
Hot Rod
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Old School (OH YEAH!!!)


December:
Battlestar Galactica: Season One
The Bourne Ultimatum
Freedom: 3
Balls of Fury
Stardust
FRICKIN Timecop


But it starts with Face/Off this month for me.

Also, Amazon shipping sucks. I STILL don't have Transformers.

 

[StoOgE]

thats a great idea. with the song thing. seriously someone needs to do that.

 

[The Take Out Bandit]

So you like Con Air but not The Rock? Simon West and Michael Bay are essentially interchangable. Actually, Bay is the better director and The Rock is the better movie.

Not really.

IMO Simon West has made more enjoyable flicks, and unlike Bay - not everyone in the damn movie is oh so pretty / shiny.

I wouldn't put Con Air up there with Pan's Labyrinth; but it's a fun ass movie to watch.

I hated the Rock when I saw it at the theater, and I still hate it. Hell, I think the only Bay movie I ever really enjoyed was Bad Boys. :lol Once you see Bad Boys, you see every trick in Bay's bag. Nothing to see here. Move along.

And oh yeah - Pan's Labyrinth! Woohoo!

Picked up FMJ last night w/ that Best Buy gift card that was tempting me to buy a game.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

I agree that it's a way off, but 10-15 years is hilariously niaive. Everyone with a cable box will be doing it shortly.

Consider that the majority of music is still bought on CDs, even if it it is sharp decline. This is 10 years after dowloading was reasonable speed-wise.

HD movies aren't reasonable speed-wise yet.

My bigger concern is that digital distubution will make SD viable *longer* because people would rather have a movie now than a HD version after a longer download or purchased in a store.

 

[gkryhewy]

Consider that the majority of music is still bought on CDs, even if it it is sharp decline. This is 10 years after dowloading was reasonable speed-wise.

To be fair, there still isn't a music solution as living room friendly as 'on demand' HD cable (that's the comcast branded term, anyway). This could easily be converted to a service where you purchase digital 'ownership' of a film, but the content remains server-side. Access to decent-quality HD content through this means is already basically instant.

I think Stinkles is close to the mark.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

If that's the case, why hasn't SD-On Demand (far easier to store and send) replaced DVD? I don't think On-Demand remote-ownership is an alternative to owned media (digitally or physically).

Again, the CD example-- iPods (and the like) are incredibly friendly ways to store music, and downloads are nearly instantaneous (as well as allowing you to cherry-pick songs you like) and yet CD sales still outpace downloads. That will change, and soon, but the technology and bandwidth for music downloads has existed for about 10 years, and the convenient version (broadband, the iTunes store well established) for about 5. I don't think 10-15 years for DD to overtake physical media is unreasonable when you consider it hasn't happened to CDs yet *and* current download speeds make HD MOvie downloads difficult for most consumers.

I'm not saying it won't happen-- it surely will-- but physical media has a long way to go before being second place, let alone obsolute altogether.

 

[Pellham]

I don't buy that. CDs arene't dead yet, and music is waaaaay more practical to download and friendly to portable formats than movies.

Just because CDs aren't dead now doesn't mean they won't be dead when downloads take over in 3-4 years. Borghe is 100% correct. the wave of the future lies in downloads and portable storage media (look at the ipod vs cds).

Movies and games are pretty much going in the same direction that music did, that's a hard fact that physical format loyalists need to accept.

 

[GuessWho]

If you're format neutral or HD DVD only, take the Warner titles above and add:

which are?

 

[OokieSpookie]

To be fair, there still isn't a music solution as living room friendly as 'on demand' HD cable (that's the comcast branded term, anyway). This could easily be converted to a service where you purchase digital 'ownership' of a film, but the content remains server-side. Access to decent-quality HD content through this means is already basically instant.

I think Stinkles is close to the mark.

I disagree.
While downloading has been possible for a while, MP3s did not become a major thing until portable MP3 players and MP3 playing stereos and car stereos.
You suddenly had a non skipping solution to music as well as a huge space premium.
Instead of 10 songs on a cd you could not have 50.

Downloadable HD movies are nothing remotely comparable and will not be for quite some time.
While it will have it's followers there will have to be other changes before it takes it's place in the race.

And anyway that is for another thread.

 

[OokieSpookie]

which are?

I think Harry Potter and Oceans

 

[GuessWho]

I think Harry Potter and Oceans

no 3:10 to yuma?

 

[StoOgE]

which are?

Complete list of HDDVD releases (that have been announced so far, I except more January movies to be announced later). Ive removed box sets where all movies in the box set are available elsewhere (except for the Oceans one since its the only way to get the first two movies) as well as music releases. I also removed Full Metal Jacket since its a reissue (even if its cleaned up).

October 23, 2007
2001: A Space Odyssey (Warner)
Carlito's Way (Universal)
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (Universal)
A Clockwork Orange (Warner)
Eyes Wide Shut (Warner)
Inside Man (Universal)

Seed of Chucky (Universal)
The Shining (1980) (Warner)
The Sopranos: Season Six, Part Two (Warner)

October 30, 2007
Face/Off (Paramount)
License to Wed (Warner)

Talk to Me (Universal)

November 06, 2007
The Aviator (Warner)
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (Universal)

November 13, 2007
Ocean's Giftset (Warner)
Ocean's Thirteen (Warner)
Pride & Prejudice (2005) (Universal)
Shrek the Third (DreamWorks)
That’s Entertainment: The Complete Collection (Warner)
Ultimate Force (BCI)

November 20, 2007
Star Trek: The Original Series -- The Complete First Season (Paramount)
Tremors (Universal)

November 27, 2007
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (DreamWorks)
Hot Rod (Paramount)
Mr. Bean's Holiday (Universal)
Old School (Paramount)
The Omega Man (Warner)

December 04, 2007
Arctic Tale (Paramount)
Battlestar Galactica: Season One (includes season zero mini series) (Universal)

Sunrise Earth: American Sunrise (Discovery Channel)

December 11, 2007
The Bourne Ultimatum (Universal)
Freedom: 3 (Bandai Visual)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Warner)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner)
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Warner)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Warner)


December 18, 2007
Balls of Fury (Universal)
Blade Runner (Complete Collector's Edition) (Warner)


Stardust (Paramount)

December 26, 2007
Cat People (1982) (Universal)
Pan's Labyrinth (New Line)
Timecop (Universal)

January 08, 2008
Galaxina (BCI) JUST LISTED!
IMAX: Coral Reef Adventure (Image)
IMAX: Fighter Pilot - Operation Red Flag (Image)
IMAX: Mystery of the Nile (Image)
IMAX: The Alps (Image)
Mobsters (Universal)
The Pianist (Universal)
The Road to Bali / The Road to Rio (Double Feature) (BCI) JUST LISTED!
Twister (Warner)
White Noise (Universal)
White Noise: The Light (Universal)
Zodiac: Director's Cut (Paramount)

 

[MechDX]

Can someone answer the following questions for me?

1. Is the Toshiba HD-A2 being phased out?
2. If so, is that the reason Wal-Mart is slashing it to $198?
3. Is it a good player?

Just some more proof:

 

[captive]

no 3:10 to yuma?

3:10 to yuma is lionsgate, so its blu-ray

 

[StoOgE]

no 3:10 to yuma?

No. sadly.

 

[OokieSpookie]

Guess since we are playing "mine's bigger" -
All they asked was which ones were Warners :lol

October 23, 2007

* 2001: A Space Odyssey (Warner)
* A Clockwork Orange (Warner)
* The Company (2007) (Sony)
* Eyes Wide Shut (Warner)
* Full Metal Jacket: Deluxe Edition (Warner)
* The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007) (Fox)
* Home of the Brave (Fox)
* Hostel (Director's Cut) (Sony)
* Hostel: Part II (Sony)
* King of New York (Lionsgate)
* Meet the Robinsons (Walt Disney)
* Mr. Brooks (MGM)
* Scary Movie (Dimension)
* The Shining (1980) (Warner)
* The Sopranos: Season Six, Part Two (Warner)

October 30, 2007

* HDScape: Antarctica Dreaming (DVD International)
* HDScape: Blu-ray Sampler (DVD International)
* HDScape: Exotic Saltwater Aquarium (DVD International)
* HDScape: Fireplace - Visions of Tranquility (DVD International)
* HDScape: HDWindow - Hawaii (DVD International)
* HDScape: HDWindow - The Great Southwest (DVD International)
* HDScape: Serenity - Southern Seas (DVD International)
* HDScape: Stargaze II (DVD International)
* HDScape: Visions of the Sea (DVD International)
* License to Wed (Warner)
* The Polar Express (Warner)
* Spider-Man 3 (Sony)
* Spider-Man: The High-Definition Trilogy (Sony)

November 06, 2007

* The Aviator (Warner)
* Battle of Britain (MGM)
* Beowulf & Grendel (Starz)
* Best of Blu-ray, Action (Warner)
* Best of Blu-ray, Family (Warner)
* Blu-ray 4-Pack: Action Movies (Walt Disney)
* Blu-ray 4-Pack: Disney Movies (Walt Disney)
* Blu-ray 4-Pack: Family Movies (Walt Disney)
* A Bridge Too Far (MGM)
* Cars (Buena Vista)
* Oldboy (Tartan)
* The Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1 (Walt Disney)
* Ratatouille (Walt Disney)

November 13, 2007

* Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Sony)
* Dragon Ball Z - Broly Double Feature (FUNimation)
* I, Robot (Fox)
* IMAX: Africa the Serengeti (Razor Digital)
* IMAX: Alaska Spirit of the Wild (Razor Digital)
* IMAX: Antarctica -- An Adventure of a Different Nature (Razor Digital)
* IMAX: Australia Land Beyond Time (Razor Digital)
* Masters of Horror: Season One - Vol. Three (Starz)
* Ocean's Giftset (Warner)
* Ocean's Thirteen (Warner)
* Prison Break: Season One (Fox)
* That’s Entertainment: The Complete Collection (Warner)
* Ultimate Force (BCI)

November 20, 2007

* Badder Santa: The Unrated Version (Buena Vista)
* David Gilmour: Remember That Night (Sony BMG)
* Die Hard (Fox)
* Die Hard 2: Die Harder (Fox)
* Die Hard 3: Die Hard with a Vengeance (Fox)
* The Die Hard Collection (Fox)
* Hairspray (2007) (New Line)
* Live Free or Die Hard (Fox)
* Pathfinder (Fox)
* Red Dawn (MGM)
* Rescue Dawn (MGM)
* The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (Buena Vista)

November 27, 2007

* I Know Who Killed Me (Sony)
* Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (Bandai Visual)
* The Omega Man (Warner)
* Paprika (Sony)

December 04, 2007

* 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: 50 Favorite Destinations (Image)
* 20 Million Miles to Earth (Sony)
* 50 Paintings from the Museum of Modern Art (Image)
* The Amazing World of National Geographic (Image)
* Art Wolfe: Vanishing Act (Image)
* Cast Away (Fox)
* Independence Day (Fox)
* Masters of Horror: Season One - Vol. Four (Starz)
* Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Fox)
* Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (Buena Vista)
* Queen Rock Montreal & Live Aid (Eagle Rock)
* Ronin (MGM)
* Sunrise Earth: American Sunrise (Discovery Channel)
* Superbad (Sony)
* Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (Warner)

December 11, 2007

* Celine Dion: A New Day... Live in Las Vegas (Sony BMG)
* Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Warner)
* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner)
* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Warner)
* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Warner)
* Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Warner)
* Harry Potter Years 1-5: Limited Edition Giftset (Warner)
* High School Musical 2 (Walt Disney)
* Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same (Warner)
* The Legend of Zorro (Sony)
* Lost: The Complete Third Season - The Unexplored Experience (Disney)
* Rent (Sony)
* SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers: The Next (Bandai Visual)

December 18, 2007

* Blade Runner (Complete Collector's Edition) (Warner)
* Blade Runner (Ultimate Collector's Edition) (Warner)
* The Simpsons Movie (Fox)
* Underdog (2007) (Walt Disney)

December 26, 2007

* Pan's Labyrinth (New Line)
* Rush Hour 3 (New Line)

January 01, 2008

* Shoot 'Em Up (New Line)
* War (Lionsgate)

January 02, 2008

* Resident Evil (Sony) JUST LISTED!
* Resident Evil Trilogy (Sony) JUST LISTED!
* Resident Evil: Extinction (Sony)

January 08, 2008

* 3:10 to Yuma (2007) (Lionsgate) JUST LISTED!
* Con Air (Buena Vista)
* Night of the Werewolf / Vengeance of the Zombies (Deimos)
* The Rock (Buena Vista)
* Twister (Warner)

January 15, 2008

* Breaker Morant (Image)
* Suburban Girl (Image)

January 29, 2008

* King of California (First Look)

February 05, 2008

* Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World (Fox)

February 12, 2008

* The Amateurs (First Look)

March 28, 2008

* Godzilla (1998) (Sony)

 

[Cosmic Bus]

Complete list of HDDVD releases (that have been announced so far, I except more January movies to be announced later).

Thankfully, nothing for me until Zodiac hits in January. My backlog is immense right now -- hell, 75 hours of the Twlight Zone just arrived a couple days ago. That alone will keep me busy for a looong time.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Just because CDs aren't dead now doesn't mean they won't be dead when downloads take over in 3-4 years. Borghe is 100% correct. the wave of the future lies in downloads and portable storage media (look at the ipod vs cds).

Movies and games are pretty much going in the same direction that music did, that's a hard fact that physical format loyalists need to accept.

So downloads will take over in 3-4 years, and it's already 10 years since the technology existed to d/l at reasonable speed.

Since we're not at reasonable speed yet for HD movies, is my 10-15 year prediction so far off the mark? I don't think so.

 

[Bebpo]

Just because CDs aren't dead now doesn't mean they won't be dead when downloads take over in 3-4 years. Borghe is 100% correct. the wave of the future lies in downloads and portable storage media (look at the ipod vs cds).

Movies and games are pretty much going in the same direction that music did, that's a hard fact that physical format loyalists need to accept.

Looney Toons here.

CDs will never go away. Who downloads music? Teens. Adults generally still buy cds and collectors like to have a physical copy.

I still buy a few cds a month, so does everyone I know. In fact personally I don't know a single person who downloads music instead of buying physical cds. Sure downloadable music is doing well, but it's only a portion of the market and it will never take over the rest. There's nothing that would get these people who buy their music on cds to change over to buying them digitally.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Even if downloads do become the majority (I think they will) it will be a looooooong time before physical media is obsolete altogether.

And again, movies are well, well behind music on that curve. 10 years behind.

 

[StoOgE]

Guess since we are playing "mine's bigger" -
All they asked was which ones were Warners :lol

wait.. what?

I just gave him the full release list since BRD had a similar one up above for convinience.. especially given that some of the WB releases are allready on HDDVD, I couldnt just give him a list of the warner ones.

If I was going for who's list is bigger I certainly wouldnt have removed the box sets and concert discs.

 

[Zombie James]

Any Clockwork Orange reviews?

 

[VanMardigan]

which are?

The Harry Potter sets and the Ocean's sets


edit:

Holy Crap, why'd ookie turn this into a list wars? I thought the original question by GuessWho was legitimate, not an attempt to troll HD DVD. Was I wrong?

 

[OokieSpookie]

The Harry Potter sets and the Ocean's sets


edit:

Holy Crap, why'd ookie turn this into a list wars? I thought the original question by GuessWho was legitimate, not an attempt to troll HD DVD. Was I wrong?

Yes I was the first one to post the list, thank you for being so typically observant.
I guess you have Sto0ge blocked?

 

[OokieSpookie]

Any Clockwork Orange reviews?

I have heard nice things about the sound and the transfer, though griping about the aspect ratio ( though someone explained that very well here earlier)

 

[Novid]

Wow...I never thought that anime would be the first to go HD (You be thinking with the success of the Disney Collection/Looney Toons Golden Collection...that Disney and Warner would start transfering the shorts already) and on top of that...only 3 are good and one is great.

Besides that...still need physical discs. Hard Drives/Flash Drives can only do so much.

 

[borghe]

yeah, I'm not going to get into the download stuff. Obviously a sore spot in here.

Meet the Robinsons' picture is insane. There is one scene in particular (panning through the city when everyone is being put into bubbles) when the scene looked like an actual demo running on a computer monitor it was so bright and vivid.

One major complaint... all of the SD content was CLEARLY ripped from the DVD. Even worse, none of it was anamoprhic. WTF? Both music videos were squashed. On DVD this is annoying. On HD this is unacceptable considering all the non-SD content plays at 16:9 anyway. :\

 

[VanMardigan]

Yes I was the first one to post the list, thank you for being so typically observant.
I guess you have Sto0ge blocked?

Posting a list isn't necessarily list wars. YOU posted the first listing with the BR movies and that wasn't "list wars". I posted the HD DVD ones I liked (NOT the full list, and NOT the Warner titles) as an addendum.

Stooge's list was in response to a question (which I'm not even sure now was legitimate or trolling).

Your "response list" is clearly "list war" being waged. :lol

Both sides have good movies coming out, I think we can all agree on that and move on.

 

[OokieSpookie]

Wow...I never thought that anime would be the first to go HD (You be thinking with the success of the Disney Collection/Looney Toons Golden Collection...that Disney and Warner would start transfering the shorts already) and on top of that...only 3 are good and one is great.

Besides that...still need physical discs. Hard Drives/Flash Drives can only do so much.

Anime can look amazing.
I will say that even though it is hellishly expensive Ghost in the Shell: Innocence is something that really has to be experienced on Blu Ray if you are an anime fan.

 

[Novid]

Anime can look amazing.
I will say that even though it is hellishly expensive Ghost in the Shell: Innocence is something that really has to be experienced on Blu Ray if you are an anime fan.

Im a fan of that particalar series period lol...I have no doubts it looks great.

 

[VanMardigan]

From Gizmodo:

Samsung just alerted us that it was dropping the HQV-equipped $600 BD-P2400 Blu-ray player from its lineup, and that it would stock the dual-format BD-UP5000 Duo HD player by "mid to late December". Yikes. It also says that while the Duo HD player will be BD Profile 1.1 "ready", it wouldn't actually play the 1.1 discs until it receives a firmware update at the end of January 2008.

 

[OokieSpookie]

Im a fan of that particalar series period lol...I have no doubts it looks great.

They also released the original movie on blu ray/ dvd combo set ( and I think hd/dvd combo also)

 

[VanMardigan]

They also released the original movie on blu ray/ dvd combo set

Wait, what? Those things exist??

 

[OokieSpookie]

Wait, what? Those things exist??

Yeah there were a couple of anime released that way so far...much to the pain of my wallet.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

yeah, I'm not going to get into the download stuff. Obviously a sore spot in here.

I woulnd't call it a sore spot, more like a very common misconception about how long these things take.

 

[VanMardigan]

Yeah there were a couple of anime released that way so far...much to the pain of my wallet.

Are you talking a combo disc or two separate discs in one sleeve?

 

[OokieSpookie]

Are you talking a combo disc or two separate discs in one sleeve?

Two seperate discs in one package