Blu-Ray DVD Movies

[ARPRINCE]

I can't wait until they come out []. I just got to get this movie (one of my favorites)!!!

[hillbilly]

Nice choice!

[WMcD]

This month's Sound and Vision is reporting, in not quite as few words, that Blu Ray is the winner in the format war. Most owners of the software (the movie studios) have signed on.

There are tipping points. That happened in the consumer market with VHS and Beta. But now the tipping has happened before the formats got to the consumer.

Of course the studios are going to make a bundle of money.

Gil

[bitece]

I just saw the Toshiba HD-DVD player in the Crutchfield catalog for $499. I think that Sony's plan to incorporate Blu-Ray playback into the upcoming PS3 gives Blu-Ray a giant edge over HD-DVD.

[JJkizak]

That's hilarious. No one can purchase a Bluray disc until March and they already won? Lets wait until 2007 before we declare a winner. The info I have is that the original orientations of who is tied with what have escape clauses to "hedge their bets".

JJK

[ARPRINCE]

Pricing is not that bad at all IMO.

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The

High Definition format battle heats up with Sony Pictures taking the

first swing by announcing the studio's first Blu-ray Disc movie pricing structure.

The company announced today that a portfolio of Blu-ray Disc movies

will come to suppliers at a slightly increased market price of $23.45.

This puts the price of Blu-ray movies approximately 15% higher,

compared to what suppliers are charging now for new release DVDs. Other classic Blu-ray Disc titles will sell for $17.95.

"The

premium is for a way better format and to remind retailers that at the

time we launched DVD, VHS was selling for $55 wholesale in the first

window," Benjamin Feingold, President of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment explained. "The higher pricing structure for new releases is meant to accommodate the sell-through and rental markets."

Sony

Pictures also announced that the DVD-UMD bundles would slowly turn into

BDR-UMD bundles in the future. On March 28th, consumers can buy DVD-UMD

packs of The Grudge, Resident Evil, Underworld, Crouching Tiger, Hidden

Dragon and Terminator. Each pack will be priced at $28.95.

"With the

launch of Blu-ray, we're going to try to introduce the managed-copy

concept, where if you buy Blu-ray you'll be able to get additional

versions (of the same title) to use in your home. Ultimately,

we might even get to the point where we'll offer consumers the ability

to have different versions of the same movie on different devices in

the home -- that's something we're working on."

Link here....

[SCOOTERDOG]

Interesting how you can get a movie now but don't have a machine to play it on. From what I have read it could be almost a year before we start to see the machines. Even the PS3 won't be available until Christmas. I'm still not convinced that the HD DVD Camp is giving up at this point. So to state that Blue Ray is the winner seems to be a little premature. As much as I want to get into HD DVD(some form of HD DVD) I want to see how things turn out by the end of this year. It is so sad when new technologies are on the rise that these big guns can't seem to get it together and develope ONE solution. So here we go again, first it was the VHS/Beta battle then it was DVD Audio/SACD and now it's Blue Ray/ HD DVD. They seem to always want to confuse the consumer. This is just another example of sand box foolery. In the end it's us the consumers who gets screwed.

scooter

[Mikekid]

I completely agree with scooter.

I had very high hopes for DVD-A / SACD. I haven't purchased a title for several months now.....did they stop mixing these????????[]

Take care:
Mike