Zombie James
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My five free Blu-ray movies arrived today and I got everything I requested. Only one dud.. maybe two. But i'm happy with my top three (Curse of the Black Pearl, Superman: The Movie, and American Psycho).
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Hi-Def Media Lovefest: The war is over and we can all go home.
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Killthee said:
What in the hell?!
PS3 will get updated to support BD Profile 1.1 later this month:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#blog20
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#blog20
Warm Machine
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Yeah the box are for canadian stuff is that bad. The SOLUTION is SIMPLE!
Manufacturers! Print two sided slipcovers! One side English, the other side French. Make the English side 100% English and the French side 100% French. You tried this before but the french side had only critic's quotes in french and the rest was dual.
This bilingual packaging makes no one happy. French collectors hate it and English collectors hate it.
Manufacturers! Print two sided slipcovers! One side English, the other side French. Make the English side 100% English and the French side 100% French. You tried this before but the french side had only critic's quotes in french and the rest was dual.
This bilingual packaging makes no one happy. French collectors hate it and English collectors hate it.
Gary Whitta
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OokieSpookie
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Gary Whitta said:
Yeah I saw that, but I honestly think one line of that says exactly why that will not happen.
I think that this is the very reason why they will not allow it to go on.
painful fart
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VanMardigan said:
Jeez kids, and you are calling out others to be fanboys?Kabuki Waq said:
DarkJediKnight
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JB1981 said:
Yup. Sam Raimi dropped the ball big time. This could've been great trilogy, but S3 really sucked. Too much singing and dancing, and not enough Venom. There had better be a director's cut that gets rid of all the bullshit and adds more venom.
Kabuki Waq
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painful fart said:
so am I an HD DVD fanboy because i prefer HD DVD software? or am I BLu Ray fanboy because i own a ps3 ?
painful fart
Member
Well, what is your conclusion from my quote, Einstein?Kabuki Waq said:
You listed a number of HD-DVD exclusives, completely ignoring that there are lists of BD exclusive blockbusters that would point in the other direction. And if you look at exclusives of recent blockbuster hits, maybe the future of HD-DVD doesn´t look so rosy, eh?
OokieSpookie
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birdman said:
It was shown on a recent ad in Empire magazine among coming soon blu movies, safe bet to hear a date at CES.
OokieSpookie
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YYZ said:
Please understand that I mean nothing bad by this, but does anyone actually read this thread before hitting the reply button?
There was a rather extended bit about profile 1.1 just this afternoon on here that covered the very same area.
But to answer profile 1.1 hits this month, movies using it start showing early Jan.
fatigues_gasolini
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DarkJediKnight said:
From what I heard, Raimi never planned Venom to be in the original planned version. He hated Venom as a villian. It was Avi Arad who pushed him to include it. Haveing all those storylines fucked up the movie.
Amazon changed up their movie selection for the Blu-ray BOGO deal. The Superman movies have been removed and others like 300, Wyatt Earp, etc have been added. I bought one movie pack (of 4) and got another for free. I also signed up for the credit card and am now getting $30 back. That means I got The Last Samurai, The Phantom of the Opera, Unforgiven, The Fugitive, Lethal Weapon, The Road Warrior, Swordfish, and Training Day all for $30.90 with 3-5 day shipping. 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000172941&plpage=1&tag=blurayforum-20
Amazon Warner BOGO has been updated/changed to include different movies.
Amazon Warner BOGO has been updated/changed to include different movies.
Gary Whitta
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I still don't get why anybody would want Swordfish in any format even if it was free.
OokieSpookie
Banned
Gary Whitta said:
I do not know why but I kind of liked it.
Now it has been a while since I have seen it, but still will pick it up when it is cheap.
DarkJediKnight said:
I still enjoyed it, much more then the first film actually. It was still extremely disappointing coming after the stellar second movie. He completely butchered Venom and did not develop Sandman at all. I guess I was one of the few who had a good laugh at the Emo Peter.
Christoff Yurievich
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see, a director's cut would do the exact opposite since Sam Raimi wanted Sandman and Vulture, not Venom.DarkJediKnight said:
...it's always fun when a new kid comes to town.painful fart said:
Here's the list of the new Warner titles on sale at Amazon.
The box sets are $56.
So that's 8 movies for $56.
Sell the ones you don't like.
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300
16 Blocks
Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut
Battle of the Bulge
Blood Diamond
Christmas Story, A
Deliverance
Departed, The
Dirty Dozen, The
Enter the Dragon
Fountain, The
Fugitive, The
Full Metal Jacket (crappy version)
Good Night, and Good Luck
GoodFellas
Happy Feet
House of Wax
Last Samurai, The
Lethal Weapon 2
Letters from Iwo Jima
March of the Penguins
Music and Lyrics
National Geographic - Relentless Enemies
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Phantom of the Opera, The
Rio Bravo
Road Warrior, The
Scanner Darkly, A
Searchers, The
TMNT
Troy (Director's Cut)
Under Seige
Unforgiven
Viva Las Vegas
We Are Marshall
Wild Bunch, The
Wyatt Earp
Best of Blu-Ray Vol. 1
(Lethal Weapon / The Road Warrior / Swordfish / Training Day)
Best of Blu-Ray Vol. 2
(The Last Samurai / The Phantom of the Opera / Unforgiven / The Fugitive)
The box sets are $56.
So that's 8 movies for $56.
Sell the ones you don't like.
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300
16 Blocks
Alexander, Revisited - The Final Cut
Battle of the Bulge
Blood Diamond
Christmas Story, A
Deliverance
Departed, The
Dirty Dozen, The
Enter the Dragon
Fountain, The
Fugitive, The
Full Metal Jacket (crappy version)
Good Night, and Good Luck
GoodFellas
Happy Feet
House of Wax
Last Samurai, The
Lethal Weapon 2
Letters from Iwo Jima
March of the Penguins
Music and Lyrics
National Geographic - Relentless Enemies
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Phantom of the Opera, The
Rio Bravo
Road Warrior, The
Scanner Darkly, A
Searchers, The
TMNT
Troy (Director's Cut)
Under Seige
Unforgiven
Viva Las Vegas
We Are Marshall
Wild Bunch, The
Wyatt Earp
Best of Blu-Ray Vol. 1
(Lethal Weapon / The Road Warrior / Swordfish / Training Day)
Best of Blu-Ray Vol. 2
(The Last Samurai / The Phantom of the Opera / Unforgiven / The Fugitive)
Ignatz Mouse
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dallow_bg said:
Couldn't pass these up at $10 a pop, even though some are not great.
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Hey just a headsup, for anyone that lives in canada - www.thecnl.com is doing a bogo sale and they have a couple decent movies in the list , the issue though is that they sell for SRV or higher on everything so to get just as an example underworld 1 and 2 you'd wind up paying 45 bucks with shipping, there are a number of 30 dollar titles that'd wind up cost only 38 to ship 2. I suppose those that skipped the good movies on the list could order 10 films and pay for 5 and still only have 8 dollars shipping to worry about.
I mentioned canada only but I think they do ship to the US. The other catch is that you have to be a preffered customer to order anything before dec.9th when the sale officially kicks off.
I mentioned canada only but I think they do ship to the US. The other catch is that you have to be a preffered customer to order anything before dec.9th when the sale officially kicks off.
Cosmic Bus
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Is it correct to assume Warner is subsidising this sale the way Sony does? If so, why the hell are they snubbing HD owners (not that I've come to expect anything less with these endless BR sales)?
Cosmic Bus said:Is it correct to assume Warner is subsidising this sale the way Sony does? If so, why the hell are they snubbing HD owners (not that I've come to expect anything less with these endless BR sales)?
According to readers at High Def Digest, it's because Warner is dropping Blu-ray and clearing out their inventory :lol
Gary Whitta
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Theoretical question:
Blu-ray is currently beating HD-DVD even though the BD hardware is more expensive than equivalent HD-DVD hardware. So...
If Sony (or Samsung or whoever) came out with a $199 BD player tomorrow, would that be enough to put us into an endgame scenario?
Blu-ray is currently beating HD-DVD even though the BD hardware is more expensive than equivalent HD-DVD hardware. So...
If Sony (or Samsung or whoever) came out with a $199 BD player tomorrow, would that be enough to put us into an endgame scenario?
The Bookerman
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Gary Whitta said:
I thought Sony was supposed to Send Wal Mart some BD players with a Retail price of 199$ already?
Gary Whitta said:
possibly, but it seems that isn't their strategy. They are playing the software game with all these BOGOFs, 3 for 2s etc. Maybe they don't want to chop hardware prices too much and annoy the other manufacturers.
HDDVD on the other hand, doesn't *have* any other manufacturers, so Toshiba can slash prices freely.
painful fart
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Thanks, Old Master of the Trade.bune duggy said:
Maybe you can help me out with a quetion?
Do you know if the exclusivity deal between Paramount an Toshiba for the US market has an expire date? Is it a subscription deal Toshiba can renew once a year or what?
Kabuki Waq
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painful fart said:
well the exclusives on the HD DVD side i believe are atleast EQUAL to the blu ray side IMO.
Yet they are still trailing.
VanMardigan
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painful fart said:
18 months seems to be the number floating around. So probably until the end of 2008.
womfalcs3
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Gary Whitta said:
If Funai or whomever comes out with a BD player that doesn't do 1080p, then maybe they can go down to the 99 dollars the low-end HD-DVD players went for during that sale.
If you look at the cheapest BD players compared to the cheapest HD-DVD players that are able to do 1080p, the price difference isn't significant.
Seems like Lawrence of Arabia should have long since been released on BD already, considering that's been part of Sony's HD dog and pony show for at least 3 yrs now.
No, the endgame is $199 dual format players in another year or so, when neutral CE manufacturers will downplay format distinction and just emphasize the HD movie playback. Studios will probably jump on board and subdue the packaging distinction between movie releases of differen formats. "Plays great on dual format HD players" or some such will become the tagline.
Not likely. We're still in an early adopter phase for these formats and would be for at least another year or more and that's being optimistic by assuming a growth rate akin to DVD, in spite of a format war.Gary Whitta said:
No, the endgame is $199 dual format players in another year or so, when neutral CE manufacturers will downplay format distinction and just emphasize the HD movie playback. Studios will probably jump on board and subdue the packaging distinction between movie releases of differen formats. "Plays great on dual format HD players" or some such will become the tagline.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
kaching said:
I like your dream. If CE companies can end the stupid format war with a device that plays all the movies I already own, I'm all for it. It needs to happen sooner than later, though, if we want the public to buy in to dual format hardware.
Ignatz Mouse
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I don't think dual-format players are the future. I think there's too much overhead in each spec to make it worthwhile, and by the time they would be able to get to mass-market prices (Q4 2009, I would guess) the format war will have been settled.
A dual format solution would benefit NO ONE.
Consumers will be left with more expensive equipment that has more opportunities for failure.
CEs will be left with higher unit costs for manufacturing, testing and maintenance.
Studios will be left with the option of either supporting both formats at extra cost or eliminating support for a format for an arbitrary reason.
Retails will be left with having to devote twice the shelf space for basically the same format.
I cannot see it being a desired result for anyone except for those that want HDM to fail.
Consumers will be left with more expensive equipment that has more opportunities for failure.
CEs will be left with higher unit costs for manufacturing, testing and maintenance.
Studios will be left with the option of either supporting both formats at extra cost or eliminating support for a format for an arbitrary reason.
Retails will be left with having to devote twice the shelf space for basically the same format.
I cannot see it being a desired result for anyone except for those that want HDM to fail.
Ignatz Mouse
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Dual format players are the wishful-thinking solution for people who want to purchase movies with abandon (or already have).
THe only way they'd become the primary players is if the studio support never resolves, and if that's the case, HDM is DOA.
THe only way they'd become the primary players is if the studio support never resolves, and if that's the case, HDM is DOA.
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