RSSUniversal: 100 HD DVD Titles in 2007
By the Betanews Staff | Published January 26, 2007, 11:27 AM
Movie studio Universal, which exclusively supports the HD DVD disc format, said late Thursday that it planned to release more than 100 titles in HD DVD during 2007. It also said that 90 percent of its titles released during the year would be in "combo disc" format, which contains the DVD version of the movie on one side and the HD DVD format on the other.
Among the titles to be released first are The Mummy Returns on January 18, followed by Brokeback Mountain on January 23. After that, Universal said it plans "dozens" of day-and-date releases of new release titles. Catalog titles to be offered this year include The Bourne Identity, Meet The Fockers, American Pie, Erin Brockovich, and Liar Liar, among others.
The problem is people care even less about video quality than they do about sound. HD-DVD and BD are both doomed eventually.
I'm a movie freak and I don't even care. Most of the titles aren't Hollywood eye candy, they're dialog movies.
The most popular sound format is MP3, which tells you how much the public loves good quality audio, and you can easily copy DVD's, no one wants to adopt a new format that was only brought around to stop copying. The "HD" is the supposed bonus.
The movies don't blow me away like I expected, some look only as good as the standard DVD transfer and U2's grainy Rattle and Hum looks like VHS.
The price of the players is the key, everyone is waiting for a sub $200 machine. Even then, the movies are still more money and half the country owns a 43 inch Gateway plasma, which looks like a** no matter what you play on it.
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|Actually practically all statistics just say the opposite, that the majority of people just don't care about sound as much as about video quality and effects.
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|When HD DVD players drop to DVD player prices we'll talk
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|Most will be released as a DVD/HD DVD Combo. With the volumes that we're talking about, I think you'll be seeing reduced prices on the combos to be more like Brokeback Mountain and The Scorpion King. Also, I think many who do not yet own an HD DVD player find these very attractive as well to start an HD DVD collection prior to buying the player, so these will sell extremely well. Look at "The Departed." Even though this DVD/HD DVD Combo is priced $4 more than it's Blu-ray counterpart on Amazon.com, it is selling better than Blu-ray.
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|Where are all those Blu-ray Bobs and their tales of Universal's "lukewarm" support for HD-DVD now, huh?
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|Here is the problem...
When they release older titles, they are not remastering them. So, the quality is almost the same as a upconverted DVD. This is also true for Blu-Ray. New movies are great, but don't throw away your DVDs.
I would recommed getting rid of the VHS.
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|I would recommed getting rid of the VHS.
...unless you have kids and most of the Disney collection on VHS. :)
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|iDMan you could not be more wrong and clearly don't really understand what HD is or is about.
Almost every film at the cinema (since WW2) was in a HD resolution (or higher) already.
The idea that it is recent or invented by HD-DVD or Blu-ray is totally incorrect.
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|Hocuspokus is correct, film is already much higher resolution than any disc format on the market today. Technically I don't think film has a resolution but we'll not go into that. Now of course remastering does help by cleaning up dirt and scratches and improving the audio, but it's really only needed for very old movies that are in bad condition. Besides, I haven't seen any sources for this claim that they are not going to be remastering them. The original Star Trek series is for example, and will be coming to HD-DVD.
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|I thought Universal is on both camps?
Oh well, I'm enjoying my 360 HD-DVD addon.
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|You will enjoy it more once you google "thdudf.inf" and get the toshiba driver to enable EDF2.5. Once this is done you can fire up powerDVD 7.0 Max to play disks on your PC.
Also find it by searching "xbox360-1hddvdrom.udf.reader.v2.5"
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|Hurf durf blu-ray hd-dvd hurf
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|lol, her you go! here is a perfect summary for the entire article in one not even complete sentece! (mad props man!)
you betanews guys should learn from this guy.
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