Seeing more and more Blu-ray ads

[Cyorg]

I just saw a nice "I do Blu" commercial during the Lakers/Rockets game on ESPNHD.

[phillyfan1028]

i got a target catalog in the mail, and there was 1 whole page of bluray movies, and throughout the catalog, no HD-DUD. yesss

[SlmShdy1]

To tell you the truth, I watch HD channels just for the commercials now. I love it whenever a Blu-ray commercial comes on.

[richard lichtenfelt]

I just came from Target and there were 10 rows of blu-ray with 5 rows of hd dvd next to it looking pinched. The hd dvd slots all had movies in them while the blu-ray section had a bunch of empty spots.
I saw a 1 min. and 58 sec. Cars on blu-ray commercial on HDNMV channel. Backed it up on tivo and pulled out a stopwatch.
Blu-ray full page ad in The Official Xbox Magazine in the middle of the Call of Duty 4 article which was the cover story. Full page blu-ray ad in PC Magazine this month as well.

[FFObsessed]

Im seeing a lot more ads for Blu-Ray here in the UK. Tho it's not for BD specifically, but a lot of ads for movies mention "available Monday on DVD and Blu-Ray High Definition" unless the ad is from somewhere like Asda then they only advertise the DVD version.

Some disappointing news is the ad for Harry Potter also had the HD-DVD symbol of course, but it had the HD-DVD symbol before that of Blu-Ray and it was bigger

I think it's clear Warner still favour HD-DVD. Can't for the life of me understand why, but they do...

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by SlmShdy1

To tell you the truth, I watch HD channels just for the commercials now. I love it whenever a Blu-ray commercial comes on.

Wow.. I thought I was the only one Darn it I have turned into a geek The commercials will have a great effect on the buying decisions of consumers.

[Gio]

what really blew my mind a saw an incredible 2 to 3 min. Disney commercial on universal HD, i quickly pressed the info button to make sure what channel watching, boy universal really only cares about money HUH

it was Sunday about 9:45

[bkbluray]

I like to see the BDA stepping it up and coming out strong through this holiday season. They're doing the best thing they could be doing right now: advertising the titles available!

[cajun1975]

Their is a full page Blu Ray ad in this weeks Sports Illustrated. Nothing about HD DVD.

[Kierre]

Good audible advertisements as well. I heard a Tweeter, BLU advertisement yesterday on my way into work on WTOP radio.

[david2189]

still havent seen a single ad in the UK

[DealsR4theDevil]

Originally Posted by david2189

still havent seen a single ad in the UK

There is no war to fight in Europe or Japan. HD DVD is almost nonexistent over there from what I hear. The U.S. is the only country with people stupid enough to buy HD DVD. I hate to insult my own country but the fact that HD DVD still exists here, and only here, is pretty insulting to me.

[krispydude]

i saw a great CE3K commerical for blu-ray on discovery HD channel yesterday. pretty nice.

[pedigree]

whats weird too is leading up to the release of Shrek the third all the ads i saw for it didnt advertise that it was on HD DVD until yesterday. that was the first time it was mentioned as being on HD DVD ( and only briefly at the end with no picture)

[Branden]

Disney's been doing a good job advertising here, they've had several commercials on TV all of which clearly say "available only on DVD and hi-def blu-ray" at the end.
Anything from Warner (as far as i've noticed so far) doesn't mention either HD format, and Paramount/DW didn't seem to mention hd-dvd in their ads for transformers or shrek 3, only dvd.
in fact the only commercial i've noticed mentioning hd-dvd was for chuck & larry on the radio, made me laugh. is that the best they've got?

what's the average consumer going to think when they keep hearing/seeing dozens of commercials every day for great movies on blu-ray while the only thing being mentioned for hd-dvd is some forgetable radio ad for some POS loser chuck & larry movie saying "dvd an' hd-dvd" which sounds more like the announcer is stuttering than promoting a new format?

[The Big Blue]

Just remembered, saw an ad for Santa Clause 3 last night on one of the hi def channels.

[blackandblu]

I'm new here. Is there any reason why I couldn't post a link to a funny blu-ray ad on YouTube? My posts with links don't seem to appear?

The ad, btw, is called "junk closet". and you can guess what device gets thrown into it

[mystiksuicide]

Sadly enough while watiching "Pushing Daises" on ABC of all channels.
I was forced to watch an HD DVD with the Donkey speaking to some fool about the look and sound of crap.

[theknub]

Originally Posted by Cyorg

I just saw a nice "I do Blu" commercial during the Lakers/Rockets game on ESPNHD.

saw the same one with my roommate. he asked me if the commercial was blu quality and i told him no. blu will be of a much higher quality. i don't think he got it or understand compression, bandwidth, etc but he knows i know my stuff, so it works. that being said, we were both captivated by the commercial and then talking about the different movies coming out that will be picked up.

[unreal1080p]

I wish they would play these on TV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvE_d...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH7S_...eature=related