Official Blu-Ray & HD-DVD Thread

[The Chef]

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How do HD-DVD movies compare to Blu-Ray movies, for those of you with both formats? I have HD-DVD and was always told that the HD-DVD movies actually look better but since I havent had much opportunity to test this for myself Im looking for someone else's opinion who may own or have seen both in action.

[ExtremeGamer]

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HD-DVD is encoded better. It's a better format right now. Look wise, it's very hard to tell the difference, they are identical for the most part. HD-DVD has BD beat in the features department so far as well.

The exclusive companies are the big deal though, BD has Fox, Disney, Lionsgate, and obviously Sony...while HD-DVD has Universal, Weinstein Group, and some WB movies.

[SLAYER]

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This month looks pretty good for both sides. I'm just posting only January until CES is over with, since a ton of titles will probably be announced.

[HD-DVD Release Dates]

January 16, 2007

* Clerks II (Weinstein)
* Lucky Number Slevin (Weinstein)
* The Mummy Returns (Universal)
* Poseidon (Warner)
* Pulse (Weinstein)
* Scooby-Doo (2002) (Warner)
* The Sting (Universal)

January 23, 2007

* Black Rain (Paramount)
* Brokeback Mountain (Universal)

January 30, 2007

* Beerfest (Warner)
* Half Baked (Universal)
* The Wicker Man (2006) (Warner)

[Blu-ray Release Dates]
January 09, 2007

* Crank (Lionsgate)

January 16, 2007

* Employee of the Month (Lionsgate)
* GoodFellas (Warner)
* Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Sony)
* Scooby-Doo (2002) (Warner)
* Winged Migration (Sony)

January 23, 2007

* Alien vs. Predator (Fox)
* Black Rain (Paramount)
* Casanova (Buena Vista)
* Chicago (Buena Vista)
* Courage Under Fire (Fox)
* Gridiron Gang (Sony)
* The Guardian (2006) (Buena Vista)
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Buena Vista)
* The Manchurian Candidate (2004) (Paramount)
* Men of Honor (Fox)
* Saw II (Lionsgate)
* Saw II (Unrated) (Lionsgate)
* Saw III (Lionsgate)
* We Were Soldiers (Paramount)

January 30, 2007

* Beerfest (Warner)
* Flyboys (Fox)
* Hart's War (Fox)
* Open Season (Sony)
* The Wicker Man (2006) (Warner)

[ExtremeGamer]

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Toshiba announces the 50GB HD DVD disc....this one hurts BD

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/CES:_Toshiba_Surprises_with_50GB_HD_DVD/422

[SLAYER]

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Nice. I wonder if those triple layer HD-DVDs are still on the cards.

http://forums.operationsports.com/vB...00&postcount=4

[RockyTop1]

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Pretty solid list of stuff coming to HD DVD. Doesn't compare to BR, but not bad...
-The Departed
-The Good Shepard
-Flags of our Fathers
-Blade Runner
-The Matrix trilogy
-Babel
-all Harry Potter
-Star Trek
-more Sopranos
-Battlestar Galactica

[The Chef]

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So I guess my dream of Lions Gate coming to HD-DVD or atleast becoming neutral isnt going to happen now? I was really looking forward to the Saw series being in HD-DVD but it doesnt look like that is going to happen now.

[ExtremeGamer]

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So I guess my dream of Lions Gate coming to HD-DVD or atleast becoming neutral isnt going to happen now? I was really looking forward to the Saw series being in HD-DVD but it doesnt look like that is going to happen now.

Why do you say that?

[stiffarmleft]

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So I guess my dream of Lions Gate coming to HD-DVD or atleast becoming neutral isnt going to happen now? I was really looking forward to the Saw series being in HD-DVD but it doesnt look like that is going to happen now.

Isn't Lions Gate doing downloadable content for Xbox Live?

[ExtremeGamer]

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Isn't Lions Gate doing downloadable content for Xbox Live?

Yes, they announced a ton of movies, but that has no bearing on HD-DVD.

They are BD only right now, but at any point they could come to an agreement with HD-DVD. Fox and Disney could as well, likely..no, but it could happen.

The only company that won't probably ever be HD-DVD is Sony/Columbia.

[ExtremeGamer]

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Lot of announcements today...

I comprised these from http://www.highdefdigest.com/ and made it one list.

All for Blu Ray

February 6: 'American Psycho,' 'Rambo: First Blood,' 'Reservoir Dogs,' 'Young Guns'

March 20: 'Chicken Little,' 'Finding Neverland'

April 3: 'King Arthur Director's Cut,' 'G.I. Jane'
'The Fly (1986),' 'Tristan & Isolde,' 'Me, Myself & Irene,' 'Dude, Where's My Car?'

April 17: 'Turistas'

April: 'The Silence of the Lambs,' 'Hannibal'

May (Exact Date Not Announced): 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,' 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'
'Master & Commander,' 'Man on Fire,' 'Edward Scissorhands,' 'Predator,' 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' 'The Siege'

June 8: 'Con Air,' 'Crimson Tide,' 'The Rock'

June : 'Independence Day,' 'I, Robot,' 'Cast Away'
'Ronin,' 'To Live & Die in L.A.,' 'A Fistful of Dollars,' 'Out of Time,' 'Walking Tall,' 'Bull Durham'
'Platoon,' 'The Graduate,' 'Battle of Britain,' 'A Bridge Too Far'

Summer: 'Cars,' 'The Recruit,' 'Open Range,' 'Remember The Titans'

Later in 2007: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Basic Instinct, 'Dirty Dancing,' 'Ultimate Avengers 2,' 'House of 1000 Corpses,' 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder,' 'Waiting,' 'Requiem for a Dream,' 'Pi' 'Cabin Fever' and 'Belly.' Also due sometime in the coming year is the acclaimed television miniseries version of 'Dune,' plus season-by-season box sets of the hit series 'The Dead Zone' and 'Weeds.'

[RockyTop1]

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Lot of announcements today...

I comprised these from http://www.highdefdigest.com/ and made it one list.

All for Blu Ray

February 6: 'American Psycho,' 'Rambo: First Blood,' 'Reservoir Dogs,' 'Young Guns'

March 20: 'Chicken Little,' 'Finding Neverland'

April 3: 'King Arthur Director's Cut,' 'G.I. Jane'
'The Fly (1986),' 'Tristan & Isolde,' 'Me, Myself & Irene,' 'Dude, Where's My Car?'

April 17: 'Turistas'

April: 'The Silence of the Lambs,' 'Hannibal'

May (Exact Date Not Announced): 'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,' 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest'
'Master & Commander,' 'Man on Fire,' 'Edward Scissorhands,' 'Predator,' 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' 'The Siege'

June 8: 'Con Air,' 'Crimson Tide,' 'The Rock'

June : 'Independence Day,' 'I, Robot,' 'Cast Away'
'Ronin,' 'To Live & Die in L.A.,' 'A Fistful of Dollars,' 'Out of Time,' 'Walking Tall,' 'Bull Durham'
'Platoon,' 'The Graduate,' 'Battle of Britain,' 'A Bridge Too Far'

Summer: 'Cars,' 'The Recruit,' 'Open Range,' 'Remember The Titans'

Later in 2007: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Basic Instinct, 'Dirty Dancing,' 'Ultimate Avengers 2,' 'House of 1000 Corpses,' 'National Lampoon's Van Wilder,' 'Waiting,' 'Requiem for a Dream,' 'Pi' 'Cabin Fever' and 'Belly.' Also due sometime in the coming year is the acclaimed television miniseries version of 'Dune,' plus season-by-season box sets of the hit series 'The Dead Zone' and 'Weeds.'

Well lets see, I want about half of those. Are those all BR exclusives?

[WTF]

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I didn't see a whole lot from that list that I'd really want. I want Walking Tall... but that's only because my alter Ego the Rock stars...

What about HD-DVD EG? Any new announcements from that camp? I'm still getting ready to pick up the HD-DVD drive.

[WTF]

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Also, is Crank only coming on BlueRay? If so, I'm glad I have a BlueRay player now. That movie is insane.

[The Chef]

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I have to admit, Im becoming more and more skeptical about HD-DVD and how long they will stay in the game. I enjoy the movies I currently own but they have little studio support in comparison and BD seems to constantly have new releases coming out that I would want. BD already will have the Spiderman series of movies on it as well as Xmen, Saw series, Reservoir Dogs and the list goes on. Only big launches I can forsee for HD-DVD would be Matrix and LOTR which will probably make their way over to BD anyways. If there is any hope it would be having some movies launch oversea's in HD-DVD and then importing them, ie. Basic Instinct, Running Scared, Harry Potter GOF, Brother Grimm, Reign of Fire, Rambo 1-3 etc, which are all out in other countries already.

EDIT- Almost forgot Pirates being exclusive to BD as well and I can just see Fox releasing 24 on BD some point in the future but thats just pure speculation on my part.