Die Hard movies, Rescue Dawn, 28 weeks later

all the good stuff. Hurry 2 day special

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Blu is the right choice.

They really need to put HD-dvd out of its misery. Blu-ray just end it please.

One word of advice.... think outside of the box... meaning think outside of NOrth America.

Blu-ray being adopted more than hd-dvd by a long shot..... and they are still losing in their home land of NA

We know Warner Brothers is slowly becoming blu because they are actually cooperating with all the other studios because they also had a BOGO sale recently with Sony.

LOL i think the Hd dvd camp gave the 150 million to the wrong studio in Paramount, they should of gave it to Warner Bros and they might of not lost so bad in the end.

bitter blu sweet storm

who cares about next gen movie platforms

Wonder what the total for BOTH formates are without the free handouts. I guess it doesn't really matter, but I'm just curious how many actually HD movies were bought as opposed to given away.

Great news for BD supporters. Hopefully WB will join the BD group and it will end the format war.

celebrate Blu Ray news the only thing PS#3 got going for it.

Apocolypto. great movie and beautiful picture. Jungle scenes really pop out in HD. I recommend the movie too its a little gory the wife couldnt watch it she left but it was a fantastic epic would make a decent game.

The funny thing is that BR players are still more expensive than HD-DVD players. I thought I heard people saying that who buys BR players and BR discs.

BR will be unstoppable, starting from tomorrow (Monday) and all the way to Christmas day (Tuesday) and new years and forever. LOL

Also, with PS3 already at 7 point something million, expect around a total of 11-12 million to finish off its first year which is pretty insane considering "It had no games" and the high price, it will have more units than 360 had in its FIRST YEAR!

WB has to sign up for BR right now, it will be healthy for them!

But really, BR can't be stopped!

Like I said- "move over or get rolled the **ck over"!

i dont know y sony fanboys r so surprised with the #'s i mean come on think about it 6. something million ps3's and standalones against toshiba and the 360 add on which all together equal about 800 to 900 thousand (maybe) if you ask me that percentage should be a lot higher today i was in best buy and picked up two hddvds and three other people picked up some and i hardly ever see anyone looking at the bluray movies

It's funny, because the Warner Bros. thing has been mentioned a few times now. If they side with HD-DVD, then this war drags on for sure, and things get real interesting, or agonizing, depending on your point of view. Don't think that it "can't" happen, either. Parmamount just got through saying how they liked Blu-ray, and then dumped them about two weeks later. Tough to say if that will happen again with Warner Bros., or whether it will be the other way 'round, but they already tend to favour HD-DVD in terms of releases and special features, so who's to say what "could" happen?

Sleep tight, kids. >;)

I've been in a few stores as well, including stores like Wal-Mart, and I asked which one was selling better. He told me that they have trouble keeping the HD-DVD's in stock (he then pointed to the nearly empty HD-DVD rack). One can't help but wonder what will happen by the end of the holiday. The prices of the players keep coming down, and it will be interesting to see which one does better. I have both, so I'm okay regardless of which way it goes, but I wonder...

Calling Blu-ray a superior format also seems like a bit of a stretch, too. I like its capacity; I like its scratch-resistant coating; and when the right codec is used, I like its picture, too. The interactive features leave a bit to be desired, so here's hoping the next firmware update fixes that (should be in time for the Terminator 3 release on Blu-ray). One good thing that the format war is doing is that it is forcing the prices of the players down more quickly than they would have if there was only one format. That's a good thing for consumers. Now, what remains to be seen is what happens with Warner Bros. That is going to tip the scales one way or another. Who knows, maybe Disney will jump ship! HA!!!

has already stated that they don't think that a video game console will push a movie format. Over time HD movies will match Blu Ray sales then surpass it. If BDA was so confident why the BOGO sale during Transformers week? And the lead should be 90/10 in BR favor.

It's not like both are on the same level in terms in hardware so it's only obvious that BR will totally annhilate hd dvd, think about it, if u look at the ratios, HD DVD actually seems like the consumer's choice because if u have 7.2 millions ps3s + 400,000 standalone BR players that makes like 7.6 million BR units versus what? a meagre 750,000 hd dvd players including 360 addons, the ratio should be more like 10:1, but it isn't, this means either one of two things, BR owners aren't buying enough discs or hd dvd owners are buying a whole lot more discs with a crazy attach rate to pull off a 2:1 or a 3:1 trail, take wally world for example, i saw the hd dvd rack was almost empty when i was grabbing a couple dvds, BR is not doing too good considering the extreme hardware advantage and user install base they have over HD DVD, cos if HD DVD manages to even pull off half of BR's install base, these numbers might get real interesting, as long as ps3 sells more and sony keeps giving away so many discs, it's only obvious that bluray's lead might increase, now take away those free disc give aways from both sides and let's see raw consumer sales, i think sony feel threatened by hd dvd's insane attach rates even though they are winning so they pulling off all these free disc give aways and BOGO sales to keep the media thinking they are actually the true consumer's choice of preference,
It's fact that hd dvd is not losing because of inferiority or preference as many sony fan boys claim but because the ps3 is rising and killing those sales, the ps3 is truly the trojan horse for BR, they should have won a long time with 10 times hardware lead over their competitors, come on BR supporters, pick up the slack and raise ur attach rates, u can do a whole lot better than that, buy more BR discs cos this is unacceptable for such wide gap in install base, BR owners, if u truly want this war to stop dragging on, adopt an hd dvd fan attitude and buy more discs to support ur format, they have so few exclusives and so much hardware disadvantage and yet the numbers are not truly reflecting this, even transformers hd dvd is still up there with best selling High Definition discs overall, that shouldn't be possible with the hardware gap, Flagship titles like Spidey Trilogy( which should i say looks amazing in BR) Pirates 3 and Ratatouille, Cars should have tripled those sales or better, Even 300's 2:1 lead wasn't good enough as hardware was about 3:1 that time, HD DVD had only 2 good exclusive titles this quarter of the year and yet didn't get massively owned with all those BOGO, just Bourne and Transformers alone, BR had how many? I won't count, BUY MORE BLU, BUY MORE BLU, BUY MORE BLU, PLEASE!!!!!!! HD DVD SHOULD'VE DIED BY NOW, PLEASE SHOW UR SUPPORT AND SHOW BLU SOME LOVE, COS IF HARDWARE BY SOME MIRACLE CATCHES UP IN THE SLIGHTEST, WE ARE IN BIG TROUBLE, DON'T FEEL COMPLEASANT/SATISFIED WITH THIS LEAD, BUY FROM AMAZON IF U CAN'T AFFORD THE FULL RETAIL PRICE, JUST RAISE THOSE ATTACH RATES PPL!!

@ below, my theory is not flawed at all, US is the bulk of the sales of these discs and the leads worldwide whether 9:1 or whatever will still be brought down on the average world wide scale to a 5:1 or something, be it worldwide or USA, hardware ratios should reflect software ratios so even 7:1 worldwide with a 10 times lead would still mean hd dvd has higher attach rates, oh and just so u know in other parts of the world, my theory is even more valid because hd dvd has no marketing or advertising whatsoever, fewer players and the hardware ratios are even worse more like 20:1 sometimes, take Australia and Japan, hd dvd is almost non-existent there,
Where are your sources for this assumed/estimated 7:1 lead cos as far as i know, it is still 3:1-6:1 worldwide
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/20...
This is Europe so even if Japan and the rest of the world had a ridiculous ratio like 9:1 which I highly doubt, that would still bring overall world attach ratio to a 5:1, meaning hd dvd owners buy twice as much discs as BR to keep the ratio halved,
I'm just saying BR owners should support the format by buying more discs, PS I never called anyone a tool cos my point is very valid even if my numbers are still off, u know exactly what i'm talking about, the baseline is software has to keep up with the hardware leads so forget all the numbers I posted above bcos u know as well as I do that the hardware advantage is still there and isn't matching the software so something is still wrong,
Also by common sense and pure logic, BLURAY being the more expensive product obviously a demographic with a stronger purchasing demographic, in other words, Bluray owners are in a better position to afford to buy $25-$30 discs rather average joes who bought $99-$199 HD DVD Players and these form the bulk of the 750,000 HD DVD players, Attach rates should even be way higher on Bluray because of this fact, in other words, software ratios should be higher than hardware ratios, totally unacceptable, BUY MORE BLU!!! PERIOD

FYI, just so u know, I'm not the one who disagreed with you,
@ below, if u proved me wrong, why do u already have 2 disagrees, I agree with u totally, u have backed ur facts with evidence but u still don't get my main point, bluray has all the advantages and edge and the results aren't reflecting those advantages, take my point above about the demographic purchasing power, industry support that's how the business world works, more advantages from the business perspective, more units sold, BR should be pushing higher software sales, POINT BLANK, I wish there were surveys with average bluray owner budget versus average hd dvd owner budget to prove my point

Nothin new, we all knew this was gonna happen, blu ray with another big lead, Hd dvd still has a chance but the future seems Blu for Hd-dvd.

Edit: Anyone who agrees with that post is a total Sony "fanboy"? The 360 is going to be left in the dust? Then Sony's plan for a 10-year console (sheeyeah, right) better be right, because they're going to need that long to catch--much less surpass--that console. Unless they decide to drop their price even more. Note to Sony: You may want do that again now. And just to clarify: I am a PS3 owner, and a PS2 guy with nearly 70 games in my collection.

I have both formats and I think that both are good. I, too, have the Spider Man trilogy, and yes, it does look awesome, although the lack of any special features on SM 1 and 2 was really disappointing. I mean, honestly, they could have given us something on those other two discs besides just the movie. Kinda cheap on their part. Just like what they did with "A Knight's Tale" and "The Fifth Element." Now, "Enter the Dragon"--that's the way it should be done. What a bargain that was!

What's disappointing is that most people are apathetic about high-definition. As for me, I'm sold, but most people don't know, and therefore don't care, about HD. I can't believe how much misinformation is out there about the two formats, and most of it is being distributed by big-box retail store employees. Joe Six-pack goes in thinking that these guys know something about HD, and they don't. It's just sad.

At first, I was totally into what Blu-ray has as positives, which are namely capacity and a scratch-resistant coating. The interactivity is and has been a long time coming, with the delayed release of Terminator 3 being the first Blu-ray to feature picture-in-picture video, but what a colossal f%#k-up on Sony's part for leaving early adopters out in the cold. The other apparent problem with BD Java is that it apparently has more lines of code per feature/function than HDi does, which means that programming those neat little interactive features is going to take longer, as well as being more expensive. What that could mean is that we may not even see those interactive features being done on Blu-ray discs. But time will tell, I guess.

No sweat, man. I was just joining the discussion. I agree with the fact that, if that's all that Blu-ray is leading by with that many machines installed (although you should note that only about 66%-70% of PS3's are being used to play Blu-ray discs at all), then they must be in some trouble.

Personally, I think that if Warner goes with HD-DVD, then the studios are split right down the middle, and this format war gets really interesting. As weird as this may sound, the fact that I have players for both formats has not sped-up my adoption of one format over another. It has, in fact, put it off. I would almost prefer that there be a clear split between studios, so that if I want Warner, Paramount, or Universal, then I go with HD-DVD. If I want MGM/UA, Columbia, Fox, or Disney, then I go with Blu-ray. The ideal would have been to have had only one format, but as I said in an earlier post, the one good thing that this format war has done is to force the prices for players down very quickly.

Good to see we are on the same page, i also agree with u and i'm really shocked with the 2 disagrees u got even though u had very valid points but BR should not be comfortable with these leads, they could be doing a whole lot better, how many ps3 owners are like u and don't even buy BR movies at all? even u say u didn't buy any bluray movies but u still got some free movies that are still counted in these ratios so like it or not, Sony needs to pull their weight or at least their fans need to show more love, my point is if u can afford blurays stop buying dvds because bluray owners are in a better position to afford HD discs so software sales and attach rates could be and should be a whole lot better, even standalone BR units are nearly half as much as total hd dvd units worldwide so ps3 owners don't even have to do that much to kill hd dvd, More industry support and better exclusives and yet still has a lower attach rate, u've got to be kidding me, i thought content was king but if this is happening, sony will be in big trouble when hd dvd gets more support from industries to get better movies cos consumers on the average are more likely to buy more hd dvds than blurays judging from these attach rates,
On the other hand, I'm interested in the point above because studios can focus more on the pros and cons of each format and make excellent discs for all, i mean if u can afford a $399 entry level BR player or ps3, u can most definitely afford a sub $200 hd dvd player and use that for exclusives, i can see that system working very well with both formats co-existing, kind of like DVD5 and DVD9

HA-Ha!!! Just ditched my 1999 IBM with an AMD K-6 II (380 MHz). I guess I am Joe "Two-four". My new PC is much, much nicer, though. I have people at the video store asking me what the differences are between the formats.

It's like this:

I tell them that both are 1080p, and that both look and sound the same. Apparently Blu-ray can run with no compressed soundtrack, but it's not like average human ears can tell the difference. What it then comes down to is that they look and sound the same, and while Blu-ray has more capacity, HD-DVD has more interactive features (that are presently used). I then tell them how it breaks down between the studios (who's with whom), and then that's that.

As for DVD upscaled to 1080i or 1080p being equivalent to HD-DVD, that is total misinformation. Just for fun, I bought The Last Samurai on HD-DVD (and Batman Begins) even though I have it on DVD. I then played The Last Samurai using my new Toshiba DVD-Recorder that upscales video to 1080i over HDMI. I played The Last Samurai on the 360 HD-DVD player using the component cables. No contest. The HD-DVD picture over component beat the snot out of DVD upscaled over HDMI. There ya have it!

Keep in mind that even if HD-DVD fails it doesn't ensure Blu-ray will succeed. It's entirely possible that both formats may fail. Look at what happened to DVD-A and SACD.

If they really want to win they'll drop the prices of movies.

did anyone pick harry potter up on blu ray???

I think if the blu ray version of harry potter kills the hd dvd version its just another nail in the coffin for the hd dvd format..

So make sure you buy harry potter on blu ray so we can end this crap.. Because if harry potter on hd dvd sells better than blu ray we will be in this war for awhile..

Harry Potter is better on Bluray LMAO dumbest thing ive heard today I got Harry Potter on Bluray and my Brother got it on HD DVD and HD DVD has some web enabled features that Blu doesnt,so get the bullsh1t out of you mouth.

What are you talking about??? lol.. So are u saying the blu ray version is better or the hd dvd version? I hope the blu ray version is because ur the moron who bought it..

I dont know if your saying hd dvd is better than blu ray because its not and thats why its going bye bye.. Go blu ray..

I can safely say the HD-DVD is going to lose in another 3-6 months tops unless of course a big surprise in favour of HD-DVD like the paramount announcement.

You'll know blu-ray camp is going for the kill when they drop their player prices to $99 like toshiba did. They're not ready for that just yet.

i cannot believe fanboys goin on about sales of bluray... it is obviously doin better because it comes with the ps3.... if it was not in the ps3 it would be a dead format. i guess this news is aimed at us poor xbox users..

came with the xbox it would be a differant story but who relly care who goes out to the pub and talks blu ray allnight no 1... no 1 cares

Blu-Ray's been in the lead for as long as I can remember. This format war is only hurting the consumer. And what are the odds that HD-DVD is going to make a comeback? In fact it's probably more likely that the PS3 is going to outsell the Wii next year. Which won't happen.

like the commercial I DO BLU lol of course blu ray is in the lead and will stay in the lead DISNEY is one of the major companies to support blu ray and look at the SIMPSONS MOVIE BLU RAY ONLY AND WHAT M$ HAS UNIVERSIAL AND PARAMOUNT LOL THE TRUTH HURTS DONT IT XBOTS

Blu-ray went from nothing to Top Dog within a matter of months. Assuming no other studios go exclusive to either format, I expect to see HD-DVD disappear after 2008.