€sniper_samurai wrote:EDIT: For some reason the forum has stopped recognising the Euro symbol.
Nemesis Cyberplex wrote:What does it matter if blu-ray is better or not? By the time it either one wins out, everybody will be making players that play both.
stocky wrote:That is the whole point of his comments -- with Warner's announcement to support Blu-Ray exclusively, HD-DVD has little to no chance of surviving now. Equipment manufacturers will no longer support the dying HD-DVD format (it's not like they really are right now, except for Toshiba...), and thus won't HAVE to make players that play both formats, because in the very near future, only one format will exist -- the better of the two formats -- Blu-Ray. And once there is only one format, ALL studios will be releasing their movies on Blu-Ray, and thus, the inevitable conclusion that Transformers will eventually come out on Blu-Ray.
Orin_Thomas wrote:With DVD one could apply a modification to their DVD player to play content from other regions. It wasn't a great solution to to the region problem, but it worked.
Blu-Ray is different. If you modify your player to play "out of region" content, your player will be bricked - just like a modified iPhone, the next time your player gets updated.
You can argue that just because the standard includes region encoding doesn't mean that region encoding will be used, but up until this point the competitor to Blu-Ray has been region free. HD-DVD's death will be the death of region free Blu-Ray and you'll have to chose between never being able to watch "out of zone" content or modifying your player (most likely a PS3) and never updating it, knowing that if Sony detects your update, they will "brick" your expensive console.
Honestly, I don't think seeing the movie would look better in a higher definition than what HD-DVD could produce anyway. I've already noticed that in that version you can see a lot of a low-light fuzzy picture problem throughout a lot of the nighttime scenes, which make up a good chunk of the movie. I would think a higher resolution would only make that more noticable.Versa wrote:NOT Likely to be anytime soon, guys.
Paramount still has a contract with HDDVD for another year before they can go BluRay.
Despite all the Warner Bros. news going blu thx to Sony paying them off things are looking ugly, but not over for HDDVD. We'll see what happens, but if TF gets on Bluray it's not gonna be for a long time.
And might I say being able to enjoy it now on HDDVD since late October has been nothing short of BEAUTIFUL.
stocky wrote:Maybe I am in the minority when it comes to this, but I have little to no interest in playing "out of zone" content..
Sid Burn wrote:Well, warner's sister company new line has followed suit, come may of this year, all releases for warner and newline will be blu.
Rumours that paramount has a "get out of jail free" cluase in their exclusivity contract with HDdud are also surfacing. Might see a proper transfer of TF sooner than we thought.
This format war is all but over, all HDdvd has now is paramount and that is only due to a shady pay off.
It was great to read the quotes from the HDdud camp after the warner decision, they really had no idea what to say.
Maybe next time put out a quality product.
2008 is looking blu, as I expected.
with Warner and Newline on board, it is only a matter of time before other Warner franchises like HBO go blu as well. I predict paramount will wriggle out of its contract with HDdud and we will see a Bluray TF movie by 4th quarter 2008
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