Any Chance Of These Getting Released Anytime Soon Or Even Not Soon

[kalby8]

Hi - I am trying to decide if I should spring for an BLURAY Player - I have a 46Sony Bravia XBR2 and either need to buy a new conventional DVD player (mine is 10 years old) or buy a Bluray. I need to know if any of these are available or will be available.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Mars Attacks
Contact
The Wizard of Oz
Planet of the Apes - Original 1968
Air Force One
Clear & Present Danger
Schindler's List
ET the Extraterrestrial
Roswell - the Movie (not the tv show)
The 10 Commandments (with Charlton Heston)
The Thing - Original
The Thing - Remake
Alien

[The Don]

Originally Posted by kalby8

Hi - I am trying to decide if I should spring for an BLURAY Player - I have a 46Sony Bravia XBR2 and either need to buy a new conventional DVD player (mine is 10 years old) or buy a Bluray. I need to know if any of these are available or will be available.

Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jaws
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
Mars Attacks
Contact
The Wizard of Oz
Planet of the Apes - Original 1968
Air Force One
Clear & Present Danger
Schindler's List
ET the Extraterrestrial
Roswell - the Movie (not the tv show)
The 10 Commandments (with Charlton Heston)
The Thing - Original
The Thing - Remake
Alien

the ones that are made by Universal are not...anything else can be made on BD...

[Gideon]

Raiders of the Lost Ark- Might be released on BR when number 4 is released(theaters or on video)

Will not be on Blu-ray, Universal films:
Jaws
Schindler's List
ET the Extraterrestrial
The Thing - Remake

Nothing announced for:
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind-BR exclusive.
Mars Attacks - Format neutral
Contact-Format Neutral
The Wizard of Oz- Format neutral
Planet of the Apes - Original 1968-BR exclusive.
Clear & Present Danger- Format neutral
Roswell - the Movie (not the tv show)- No clue.
The 10 Commandments (with Charlton Heston)-Format neutral
The Thing - Original-Format neutral

Announced overseas:
Air Force One-BR exclusive



Anyone see any mistakes, please correct me.

[movies3]

you should go ahead and get a blu-ray player anyways its the future. Besides there are tons over 200+ blu-ray movies already out that you can watch until the ones you have listed come out. Once you get a bluray you wont go back

[MasterXeus]

Originally Posted by movies3

you should go ahead and get a blu-ray player anyways its the future. Besides there are tons over 200+ blu-ray movies already out that you can watch until the ones you have listed come out. Once you get a bluray you wont go back

Plus you're Blu-ray player will play you're DVDs

[Musashi]

Originally Posted by Gideon

Will not be on Blu-ray until after the format war, Universal films:
Jaws
Schindler's List
ET the Extraterrestrial
The Thing - Remake
...
Anyone see any mistakes, please correct me.

Fixed it for ya, see bold type.

[Sane]

Is there a site that lists which studios have the rights to certain movies? There are a few I'd like to look up.

Thanks!

[Gideon]

Originally Posted by Musashi

Fixed it for ya, see bold type.

Very true. Thank you.

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by kalby8

Hi - I am trying to decide if I should spring for an BLURAY Player - I have a 46Sony Bravia XBR2 and either need to buy a new conventional DVD player (mine is 10 years old) or buy a Bluray.

My comment to that, why buy decade old low resolution technology for your XBR? Buy the future in up to 8x resolution. New 2nd gen BD players are springing out so research what works for you. See apocalist for released titles.

[Deciazulado]

Originally Posted by Sane

Is there a site that lists which studios have the rights to certain movies? There are a few I'd like to look up.

Thanks!

Hopefully someone will provide a link for that specific information but you could check who's currently distributing the DVD to see which studio/format it lands on. And one of our members made a thread with a nifty colored chart of studio's "alliances" a few months ago and on General Discussions there's a sticky with facts about BD, but

it's majorly divided like this:

20th Century Fox
MGM
Disney
(Touchstone
Miramax)
Sony
(Columbia
Tri-Star
Screen Gems)
Lions Gate

Warner
(New Line
MGMs distributed by Warner)
Paramount
(DreamWorks)
Magnolia?

Universal
Weinstein


(I haven't actually seen a Magnolia HD DVD but they exist, no?) (I have 4 Magnolia Blu-rays)
The Studios in parenthesis are distributed or under the umbrella of the one above.

Blu-ray
Blu-ray and HD DVD
HD DVD

[Blu Tiger]

Originally Posted by Deciazulado

My comment to that, why buy decade old low resolution technology for your XBR? Buy the future in up to 8x resolution. New 2nd gen BD players are springing out so research what works for you. See apocalist for released titles.

Yes sir, why have an HDTV and not have an HD blu-ray movie player? They're peas and carrots baby!