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Hi-Def Media Lovefest: The war is over and we can all go home.

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ChrisJames

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DJ_Tet said:
Does anyone have the NIN concert? I want to get the HD DVD, the concert I went to that year was amazing. The review at hi def digest is sparkling too, saying it was filmed with HD cameras.
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Yeah, I have it.

I would definitely recommend it. The Picture Quality is outstanding, I don't see how it could look any better and the sound is up there with the best on the format as well.
 
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Kolgar

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I have the NIN concert on Blu-ray and it is a showcase for high-def content.

Low-light, live-concert situations like that are some of the most difficult to film, but the visuals here are razor-sharp and amazing.

If you like NIN and you gots HD, you need this disc.
 
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Wulfer

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Looks like Warner snuck in another HD-DVD exclusive this time on Harry Potter! :D

As mentioned in the last post, the new design for The Look And Sound Of Perfect site has an area where you can get more information about recent and upcoming movies.

One of the highlighted movies is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix which is due on December 11, both by itself as well as in a box set that includes the previous movies. This is the latest of the Harry Potter movies, and there hasn’t been a ton of information out yet about this HD DVD disc. In fact, you couldn’t even pre-order it at Amazon until very recently.

The information for this movie at TheLookAndSoundOfPerfect.com mentioned a “Live Community Screening” feature which is described as follows:

Gather your own army of fellow wizards for a live community screening party. Invite other owners of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix HD DVD to simultaneously watch from their own internet-accessed players and text with your remote, PC or cell phone. When you host an invitation-only viewing, you control the film by pausing and playing the feature on everyone’s machine. You can chat live with your friends as you watch.


That last sentence is really important.


Prior to this, HDi (HD DVD’s interactivity, including the web-enabled component) was implemented in a simple way where you’d go online via your player and download bonus material, or buy something like ringtones. This is pretty much what the old internet and web were about. The new web is about sharing, and it’s really great that we finally have a use for HDi that gets it all caught up with the present, and takes home movie enjoyment into the future by combining it with communication.

Watching a movie with your friends is neat, but maybe they can’t be there with you. So the “Live Community Screening” feature allows all of you to watch from your own homes, instead. You can message each other right on screen as you can on multiplayer video games. I think this is a far more compelling selling point for HDi than the “log in and buy more stuff” idea. It’s not about the studio, but more about you.

I really think this is the “killer app” for HDi, and I can’t wait to start seeing it available on more movies. (A killer app refers to the particular application for a technology that makes that technology or its inclusion a must-have product or feature, and eventually propels those products into mega-success)

The fact that you can text from a phone demonstrates that the developers thought this out pretty well. Texting and messaging is insanely popular with the age group that’s most likely to be into Harry Potter, so kudos to Warner for implementing it on this disc. And kudos to Microsoft for pushing HDi, and to the HD DVD group for insisting on the mandatory inclusion of such interactive features on all HD DVD players ever made — not just the most recent or future models.
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http://www.hddvd.com/go.php/harry-potter-and-the-hdi-killer-app/
 
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RaidenZR

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While having more features isn't a bad thing, that Harry Potter in-movie chatting sounds so silly. Just cause you CAN do it doesn't mean you probably should.
 
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borghe

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SUPERIOR FORMAT CONFIRMED!!!!!!

:p

Sorry.. If only oh if only I knew even one other person personally with HD-DVD who I could do this with. :(
 
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VanMardigan

has calmed down a bit.
I think that's pretty damn awesome, and follows what Warner did with 300 that allows you to share your "version" of the movie with friends.

queue up the Blu brigade saying this is useless/wasteful/crap/dumb/justgivemethedamnmovie in 3......2.........1..........

edit: I was WAY too slow :lol :lol :lol

The brigade works at the speed of light.

Hey borghe, you have 300? Maybe we can exchange some stuff. I'm not sure if I'll be getting Potter, I don't like the movies much. But my wife may want to.
 
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OokieSpookie

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Kolgar said:
I have the NIN concert on Blu-ray and it is a showcase for high-def content.

Low-light, live-concert situations like that are some of the most difficult to film, but the visuals here are razor-sharp and amazing.

If you like NIN and you gots HD, you need this disc.
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I was hoping to hear that, ordering now
 
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DJ_Tet

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Kolgar said:
I have the NIN concert on Blu-ray and it is a showcase for high-def content.

Low-light, live-concert situations like that are some of the most difficult to film, but the visuals here are razor-sharp and amazing.

If you like NIN and you gots HD, you need this disc.
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Not only do I like NIN and have HD, I went to that show and it was so amazing I wrote two stories about it. Sounds like I need this disc like yesterday.
 
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Ignatz Mouse

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Do you plug a headset into your HD-DVD player to chat? Weird.

Kinda cool, but weird.

If those rumored numbers are right (adn they usually are) then that's a little disappointing for Blu-ray. Those new A2 owners must've bought some movies after all!
 
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Kolgar

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Damn, that in-movie chat thing is an exciting feature, especially for today's text-crazy kids.

Again, I LIKE that next-gen movies are expanding the experience beyond simply sitting my ass in a couch and watching a feature film. I'm looking forward to what they'll come up with next!

P.S. 65:35 would be a better showing for HD DVD than I expected.
 
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Christoff Yurievich

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DJ_Tet said:
Not only do I like NIN and have HD, I went to that show and it was so amazing I wrote two stories about it. Sounds like I need this disc like yesterday.
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I bought that disc prior to owning a blu-ray player and I didn't see any of the shows. You're slow, mang. :p
 
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OokieSpookie

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Ignatz Mouse said:
Do you plug a headset into your HD-DVD player to chat? Weird.

Kinda cool, but weird.

If those rumored numbers are right (adn they usually are) then that's a little disappointing for Blu-ray. Those new A2 owners must've bought some movies after all!
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Yeah wondering how that chat thing works too.

As far as the numbers go, are we giving HD such a handicap that a BD win is not a win? :lol
 
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Ignatz Mouse

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No, that in a week with virtually no HD-DVD releases and a semi-big BluRay release, that the numbers weren't more like 70:30. A BluRay win is a win regardless, but I did expect >2:1 domination again.
 
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RaidenZR

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:lol Next time Van sits down to watch a flick we should all barrage his cell phone to see if he wants to chat. Ya know, just for kicks.
 
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VanMardigan

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RaidenZR said:
:lol Next time Van sits down to watch a flick we should all barrage his cell phone to see if he wants to chat. Ya know, just for kicks.
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I had enough of that already. Not on my cell phone but, you know, equally disturbing. :lol
 
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Oni Jazar

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Yep, it's official. Assuming the initial rumor was right (and their ratio was), we can extrapolate that if ratatouille reported 70k, the rest of the numbers are as follows:

1. Ratatouille - 70k
2. Spiderman 3 - 24k
3. Cars - 22k
4. Transformers - 18k
5. Chuck and Larry - 14k
6. Spiderman Trilogy - 11k
7. Pixar Shorts - 8k
8. Knocked Up- 6k
9. 300 - 5k
10. Meet the Robinsons - 5k
 
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Kujo

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OokieSpookie

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Ratatouille Blu 100.00
Spider Man 3 Blu 34.98
Cars Blu 30.95
Transformers Hd 26.04
Chuck and Larry Hd 19.52
Spider Man Trilogy Blu 15.38
Pixar Shorts Blu 11.56
Knocked up HD 8.53
300 Blu 7.70
Meet the Robinsons Blu 7.60
 
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Ignatz Mouse

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I wonder if Cars would have done better if released on a different week. I know it's a catalog title, but it seems like it's competing against Ratatouille.
 
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Oni Jazar

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Actually, the numbers of the top 10 are very good for Blu-ray, but this means that HD DVD must have had very high volume of sales for older titles.
 
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VanMardigan

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Blu dominates, as usual. I'm not buying the whole "should've done better" vibe. 2-1 is dominating enough.

That said, good to see HD DVD have 3 movies in the top ten. It had, what, one movie last week? Surprised it's Knocked Up, too.
 
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Ignatz Mouse

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VanMardigan said:
Blu dominates, as usual. I'm not buying the whole "should've done better" vibe. 2-1 is dominating enough.
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So we've swapped roles, have we?

I guess I'm not saying Blu did badly, just that the sale likely had an effect of helping HD-DVD out in a week which otherwise would have been a massacre.
 
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VanMardigan

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Ignatz Mouse said:
So we've swapped roles, have we?

I guess I'm not saying Blu did badly, just that the sale likely had an effect of helping HD-DVD out in a week which otherwise would have been a massacre.
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I would agree, except that I never thought Rat/Cars would've hit the key Ps3 demographic like SM3, 300, etc. do. And, wow, Transformers on Blu Ray probably would've pushed us to 90/10.
 
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OokieSpookie

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VanMardigan said:
I would agree, except that I never thought Rat/Cars would've hit the key Ps3 demographic like SM3, 300, etc. do. And, wow, Transformers on Blu Ray probably would've pushed us to 90/10.
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Cars is shitty to begin with and then it has been out on dvd how long now?
It is another in an impossibly long string of wins and honestly I do not see an end in site.
No matter how many players HD sells, blu has a permanent counter.
The sad thing is that the cycle will continue until the end oftheworld and sadly the numbers will still stay unimpressive until one format wins and the average person feels confident enough to move up.
 
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Ignatz Mouse

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Cars has been out for a year, but there are a lot of Pixar fans out there.

I don't think HD-DVD will fly, but I do think that the sale increased the number of buyers in the market noticibly, and that helped. On the flip side, there's going to be a surge of PS3s selling/sold over the next few weeks.

Interesting times.
 
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RaidenZR

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OokieSpookie said:
Cars is shitty to begin with and then it has been out on dvd how long now?
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Cars ain't so bad. It has the unlucky birthright of being siblings with some amazing Pixar movies. However, it's well exceuted no matter how much of it is a safer, more reserved plot than those that came before and after it. That said, it's still leagues higher in quality in the context of stuff like Shrek, Madagascar, or Bee Movie. In my opinion, of course.
 
Chiggs

Chiggs

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djkimothy said:
Great! Now I can be bothered at home as well as the theatre with witty chatter during the movie.
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Seriously. I read that article and all I could think of was "non-feature."
 
Zoe

Zoe

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!#$(!#%^&, I went to Fry's around 1:30, and they were already all out of 28 Weeks Later. I KNEW I should have gone when they opened :(

Lots of people milling around in the HD section. One guy I saw had like 6 BD's in his hands. There was also a PS3 trailer in front of the store, nice timing :p
 
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dallow_bg

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Zoe said:
!#$(!#%^&, I went to Fry's around 1:30, and they were already all out of 28 Weeks Later. I KNEW I should have gone when they opened :(

Lots of people milling around in the HD section. One guy I saw had like 6 BD's in his hands. There was also a PS3 trailer in front of the store, nice timing :p
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There was a crowd of 15 people in the BD section. Crazy. Most I've seen is 2 guys.

An employee came up and said "How's the Blu Ray party going guys?"

They raped the section so I didn't get The Fly.

Bought Flight of the Conchords S1 instead, and a 10' HDMI cable for 5 bucks. Cheapest ever HDMI cable for a brick and mortar store I've ever seen.
 
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VanMardigan

has calmed down a bit.
djkimothy said:
Great! Now I can be bothered at home as well as the theatre with witty chatter during the movie.
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um, you have to ENABLE this feature and connect with friends. Are you going to enable it just so you can bitch about it here?
 
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