You mean HDDVD is the one which is which is Regional free? Well not gonna lie, Thats kind of sucky. I thought they were since PS3 games were.Poona said:Sadly, no. This is where HD DVD has it good.
I really wanted to get The Brothers Grimm and Casanova from the US as for some unknown reason, they're not available in Australia.
I happened to come across a site that says they won't work for region B, which is a major bummer. Why lock catalogue titles?They've been available in Australia for ages on regular DVD.
Anyway a good site to find out if titles will play seem to be this one:
http://bluray.liesinc.net
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Hi-Def Media Lovefest: The war is over and we can all go home.
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You can post some more " :lol :lol "shintoki said:Or people who don't cry over system sales and how their favorite is doing...?:lol also found what I was referencing it to
Replace Sony with HDDVD and witch up the sales:lol
Don't take it seriously. It just reminded me of it was all...:lol I didn't mean anything by it and sorry if you took it like Im some secret MS spy or not. Just reminded me off it was all. Could of pharsed it better I know.
One more quick question, When is the Paramount Exclusive deal up?
Anyword also on the LOTR Editions and another one popped in to my head...Star Wars. I haven't really been following all this stuff. Someone mentioned something about it the other day on Amazon, but that doesn't mean much
Still the same result:
SONY/Blu-Ray wins! HD-DVD sucks ;-)
My favorite thing about Hd-dvd is it being region free. Even if hd-dvd does die and go niche there will be a ton of releases overall. It is one of the main reasons I picked HD over blu. It is cool having multiple releases of the same movie and picking the best copy. (One of the reasons I enjoyed the war)
http://hddvdformat.blogspot.com/
http://ukhddvd.blogspot.com/
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=3010
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/forumdisplay.php?f=67
Terminator 2 on hd-dvd is a great example. 3 copies of one movie all having different attributes (Uk,French, and German versions). Earlier this week was able to pick up the Jack ryan collection via crave for 40 bucks shipped.
Plus for some reason Europeans releases are stellar ( Dts-Ma + great video transfers)
I am particularly looking forward to some of these hit Japanese movies to import in HD that will likely not be released in the American market.
http://hddvdformat.blogspot.com/
http://ukhddvd.blogspot.com/
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=3010
http://forums.highdefdigest.com/forumdisplay.php?f=67
Terminator 2 on hd-dvd is a great example. 3 copies of one movie all having different attributes (Uk,French, and German versions). Earlier this week was able to pick up the Jack ryan collection via crave for 40 bucks shipped.
Plus for some reason Europeans releases are stellar ( Dts-Ma + great video transfers)
I am particularly looking forward to some of these hit Japanese movies to import in HD that will likely not be released in the American market.
shintoki said:
BluRay has 3 regions:
A - North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.
B - Europe, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, plus all of Oceania.
C - India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mainland China, Pakistan, Russia, Central, and South Asia.
However, it is up to the studios what individual titles actually use region coding. So a number of releases have come out that simply use none at all.
Here's some links to help you find what ones are region free. Granted, they aren't all inclusive lists, but they are regularly updated.
http://www.blu-raystats.com/stats.php
http://bluray.liesinc.net/
Got a Ps3. It is kind of cool its a blu-ray player with added ability to play games..
(Picked up CoD4 and Assasins Creed for the gamers)
Time to get those exclusives that I have been wanting.
Oh as a note this does not mean I do not support Hd-dvd. I will always support a competive market place. In my opinion, Competition between two hd-formats would lead to higher quality products <for cheaper>.
(dts-ma suport better come out Sony)
(Picked up CoD4 and Assasins Creed for the gamers)
Time to get those exclusives that I have been wanting.
Oh as a note this does not mean I do not support Hd-dvd. I will always support a competive market place. In my opinion, Competition between two hd-formats would lead to higher quality products <for cheaper>.
(dts-ma suport better come out Sony)
You can make that case in the gaming market, because manufacturers have a vested interest in software sales and don't mind selling hardware at or below cost. For the world of movies, I don't think that's really the case. Split formats only scare consumers and subsquently prevent manufacturers from achieving the economies of scale they need to reduce price.Nicodimas said:
OokieSpookie
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His argument is complete crap.
Competition is not wanted in this field, the studios the retailers and everyone else has spoken.
The two format future has always been the idiotic argument of hd backers, and you see where it got them.
shintoki said:
No problem.
I knew were that stuff was because I was just in the process of importing some titles
Just got done as a matter of fact.UK
* Pan's Labyrinth - While this is available here, the UK encode has better video. First of all, the US version has MAJOR DNR (digital noise/grain reduction). Beyond the UK version keeping the integrity of the film grain, it also has a higher bit-rate encode (30something Mb/s iirc). Unfortunately, it only has a DD+ 5.1 soundtrack, unlike the US DTS-MA 7.1 soundtrack. Can't have everything I guess
Germany
*Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
*12 Monkeys
Norway
*Children of Men
BTW - here's a list of movies with aggressive post-processing (DNR, EE, etc) - http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=937873
shintoki said:
No problem, I'm glad to help. Actually, here's another link you might like. Its a list of movies that are HD DVD-only in the US, but available for BD in other regions.
'AVS Link of wowsomeness'
The list probably isn't exhaustive, and some of the links in the post don't work ... but that's okay. The best thing to do is correlate those titles with the list from 'BD Region B encoding info' ... and see which ones are region-free.
Glad to hear that ... I actually blind-imported it :lol I read some reviews, and figured it was right up my alley. If you're interested in getting it, I ordered it from 'AxelMusic'
The rest were ordered through Amazon of the appropriate countries. The great thing about Amazon is that your account actually works at all of their sites
OokieSpookie
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Zen said:
Actually I think it is just the mods afraid of some kind of affirmative action lawsuit for banning the mentally defenseless.
The mods prolly realize that people having one opinion life sure would be boring. Why would I be banned? For taking a side and trying to support it. I am sorry I should do what popular children tell me too.
Smurfs <blu-ray people> scare me I buy into there product and they still put me down. No winning.
Ignatz Mouse
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I'm a smurf!
(I've been called worse)
Competition wouldn't be terrible if both formats had the support of all studios, and it was a healthy competition that lasted a decade or more. But from the start there was never 100% support for either format and it was pretty clear that someone was going to lose hard within a few years.OokieSpookie said:
No, I think the mods just realize you're relatively innocuous. People siding with BD doesn't guarantee they have exactly the same opinion about all aspects of the format. We can still have the argument about the merit of extras if you'd like, always a hddvd fan favorite.Nicodimas said:
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
50% off HD DVD's at Amazon. Good selection, too.
Cosmic Bus
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VanMardigan said:
Finally, an Amazon sale that has both NEW ITEMS and something I actually want to buy.
Onix said:BluRay has 3 regions:
A - North America, Central America, South America, Japan, Taiwan, North Korea, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia.
B - Europe, Greenland, French territories, Middle East, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, plus all of Oceania.
C - India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Mainland China, Pakistan, Russia, Central, and South Asia.
However, it is up to the studios what individual titles actually use region coding. So a number of releases have come out that simply use none at all.
Here's some links to help you find what ones are region free. Granted, they aren't all inclusive lists, but they are regularly updated.
http://www.blu-raystats.com/stats.php
http://bluray.liesinc.net/
Region encoding stinks for users but you can see why studios might want it, especially when a movie isn't out of the cinemas in one region and they want to release it in blu ray in another.
An example would be Ratatouille where the US disc appeared while it was still screening in Europe. Europe doesn't even get the film on Blu Ray until next week.
The Main Event
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VanMardigan said:
Some excellent titles in there. My poor wallet.
Did anyone ever see Out of Sight? It's a Steven Soderbergh film, and I was always intrigued by it. The film and the disc itself got rave reviews.
GauntletFan
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Anecdotes from yesterday's trip to Best Buy (picked up King of Kong and Curb)
HD-DVD displays were still there, up and running and had a decent sized crowd watching.
HD-DVD section was being browsed by a good few families who were obviously casual consumers, in fact it was the first time I couldn't get near the section due to heavy traffic.
Whilst buying my DVDs I saw another customer buying an A-30 two aisles down.
They now have Cars running on Blu-Ray, upscaled DVD and regular DVD all next to each other. I'm not sure what they did to the regular copy of Cars, though as it looked like mpeg-1 compression.
HD-DVD displays were still there, up and running and had a decent sized crowd watching.
HD-DVD section was being browsed by a good few families who were obviously casual consumers, in fact it was the first time I couldn't get near the section due to heavy traffic.
Whilst buying my DVDs I saw another customer buying an A-30 two aisles down.
They now have Cars running on Blu-Ray, upscaled DVD and regular DVD all next to each other. I'm not sure what they did to the regular copy of Cars, though as it looked like mpeg-1 compression.
Blu-ray movies have finally crept into my local Sainsburys! I noticed today there were an awe staggering two to choose from, 3:10 to Yuma and Superbad. They were not casually lying around in the DVD chart like Woolworths do and they were as far away from the PS3 game section as possible, on their own row with 'Blu-ray Movie 1' and 'Blu-ray Movie 2' labels.
DarkJediKnight
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Snah said:
Nope. Don't get US commercials in Canada. What did it contain?
Apparently it wasn't aired nationally. lol.
What a waste of money.
"I saw it here in socal, i'm surprised bay area didn't see it. It showed bourne identity and some other movies i think and then had a "buy it now for only 149.99!" hd-dvd player. It was pretty small, nothing extravagant."
What a waste of money.
"I saw it here in socal, i'm surprised bay area didn't see it. It showed bourne identity and some other movies i think and then had a "buy it now for only 149.99!" hd-dvd player. It was pretty small, nothing extravagant."
Christopher
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Aired after the halftime show it showed Shrek and Bourne. It was really forgettable.
I still can't believe the giants pulled it off though my god what an exciting game.
I still can't believe the giants pulled it off though my god what an exciting game.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
I'm at the myspace ad site and its not there. What a waste of money that was.
Zombie James
Banned
Snah said:
Millions well spent, Toshiba.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
The Main Event said:
This is one of the two I ordered (the other was Paul Schrader's Cat People, which I've been waiting for a good price on). Out of Sight is definitely one of Soderbergh's better "Hollywood" films... possibly his best. The fantastic reviews for the HD-DVD helped push me to upgrade my DVD, along with this awesome custom cover I've been waiting to use.
distantmantra
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Snah said:
They aired it up here in Seattle. The real kicker was that the commercial wasn't even in high definiton.
edit: It wasn't the Shrek ad, it was a brand new one. It was aired after half-time.
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