Archived: Insiders Thread

[Kris Deering]

How many insiders are planning on attending the Blu-ray festival early next week? I'm looking forward to the event and finally meeting some of you guys face to face. See you there!

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

How many insiders are planning on attending the Blu-ray festival early next week? I'm looking forward to the event and finally meeting some of you guys face to face. See you there!

Think of me as the “Blu-ray lounge” lizard.

[Josh]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

How many insiders are planning on attending the Blu-ray festival early next week? I'm looking forward to the event and finally meeting some of you guys face to face. See you there!

Insiders:

We have a thread regarding this in the Insider Forum:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=20823

We would love to buy you a beer and shake your hand

[Kris Deering]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Think of me as the “Blu-ray lounge” lizard.

Nice, I'll see you there I'm sure.

[Josh]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Think of me as the “Blu-ray lounge” lizard.

Can I "buy" you a free drink?

[Banjo]

Originally Posted by space2001

Hi Paidgeek,

I am in Toronto, Canada. and I was just wondering since the PS3 price is on par with America, how come we havn't seen it with Blu-ray prices. For Example look at Spider-man 3. 36.99 at futureshop, and 29.99 on the best buy American site. I was wondering if anything can be done about this since our dollar is on par.

I want Spider-man 3 to be a Success but man that is a high price compared to other new blu-ray titles.

Thanks.

Buy it from the USA.

Anyway, one of the reasons why the prices may still be high is because the prices you see today on the shelves were already decided months before they released it. It's the same with books. They decide what the price is ahead of the time. So the dollar parity may take some time to influence the upcoming releases.

Just look at PS3, it's now on par with the US prices.

[Brandon B]

Originally Posted by paidgeek

I highly recommend getting the BD remote for the PS3. It's a bargain and works very well.

I'd second that.

Anyone noticed what appears to be our A friend posting at Ars Technica?

http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/...u=300003844831

Of course, it probably cannot be him, as he refers to MS as "they" in his postings, which curiously are all on MS or MS's competitor related topics.

BB

[Luis_A51]

Originally Posted by eat_me_cool

On line prices are similar to the US (once duty and VAT added). B&M retailers charge what they do because they can. My local Asda (Walmart) charges from £14.90 to £29.90 for BD's, there is no logic to it at all. I believe some high street shops charge £40.

I know that for us in Canada the PS3 price is equal to the US price (our dollar is officially stronger, yay!!) But for virtually everything else, there is 15-30% markup. Unless its something small (where the difference only ends up being a few dollars anyways) im gonna stick to online shopping from us websites. I know exchange rates take a while to be reflected in market prices, but for crying out loud our dollar has been 90cents US or higher for the whole year, so their's no excuse for such markups. Case in point, My sony STR-DG910 is $650 retail here and $500 retail in the states. Sorry that was a bit of a rant.

[degas]

Originally Posted by Teazle

Paidgeek,

Would you please pass on this request to your Playstation contacts:

It would be _very_ handy to be able to use the PSP as a remote for the PS3 -- not the "Remote Play" feature, but for full PS3 XMB navigation and control on the PSP screen. This way you could play music on the PS3 through a connected amp & speakers, show track listings, arrange dowloads or perform any other non-video functions without switching on the TV. The PS3 does not have a frontal LED display and this would amply compensate for it.

Originally Posted by paidgeek

This an interesting idea. I'll bring it up when I see them.

I'm intrigued!
Would it be possible to make the PSP into a "Pronto"-type remote (but without the Touch Screen)?
That would be very cool.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Kris Deering

Nice, I'll see you there I'm sure.

It is still undecided whether I will be able to attend.
The Halloween party at the Playboy Mansion is on Friday.

I’m not sure I will have recovered in time, if previous events with the Kandy girls are indicative of future happenings.

For past pics from there………. click on Karma Kandyland (middle of the page) to get an idea of the Bunny House inhabitants and make sure you take your heart medication for viewing later photos once the alcohol kicked in.

http://www2.thekarmafoundation.com/P...9/Default.aspx

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Josh

Can I "buy" you a free drink?

I’m just wondering.
What is more thirsty?
A rat (as in RATATOUILLE) or a *Blu-ray lounge* lizard ?

[stockstar1138]

Penton:

Any inside information if Paramount sold 190k copies of Transformers on HD DVD.

[Paul H]

If this is the wrong area to post this subject, please advise. Thank you.

On 10/9/07 I posted a similar thread here with no response.

Something is going on with Amazon.com's Blu-ray supply source for certain titles.

You can't even pre-order some "coming soon" titles anymore. "The Polar Express (Blu-ray)' is released 10/30/07, next Tuesday and you can't order it on the site. The same for "I, Robot (Blu-ray)- due 11/13," "Independance Day - Due 12/4", "Ronin - Due 12/4" and others that all were announced months ago.

Amazon still has my pre-order of 2001: A Space Odyssey (Blu-ray) listed as an "open order", where the HD DVD is listed as "In Stock" and just last week I received "Twilight Zone: The Movie" (Blu-ray) a week late when it was out day & date.

Paul

Edit: 10/25/07 "Independance Day" (Blu-ray) has now become available to pre-order at Amazon.com.

[space2001]

Can any insider comment on this.
there is no proof but stating that the 40 gig ps3 wont be profile 1.1.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=927303

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by space2001

Can any insider comment on this.
there is no proof but stating that the 40 gig ps3 wont be profile 1.1.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=927303

that thread is such BS it isn't even funny. Sony has announced that the next firmware update will increase BD interactive functionality aka profile 1.1

[Josh]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I’m just wondering.
What is more thirsty?
A rat (as in RATATOUILLE) or a *Blu-ray lounge* lizard ?

They aren't going to have competing events, are they?

[Scorxpion]

Originally Posted by space2001

Can any insider comment on this.
there is no proof but stating that the 40 gig ps3 wont be profile 1.1.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=927303

this is what i called FUD and LIERS ,tell me for GOD sake if PS3 60 GB version will get profile 1.1 and The new one dont get this.

[iceman]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

It is still undecided whether I will be able to attend.
The Halloween party at the Playboy Mansion is on Friday.

Decisions, decisions...

[Ben]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

*Blu-ray lounge* lizard ?

@&%#! - That damn Geico lizard better not show up at the party.

[gand41f]

Originally Posted by paidgeek

It is diffilcult for us to keep the same function for the 'X' button for both HDMV and BDJ titles because of functions that the buttons map to. I highly recommend getting the BD remote for the PS3. It's a bargain and works very well.

Thanks, but I (and some others) actually prefer the game controller for watching movies. For one thing, it is easier to grab in the dark and quickly find the buttons than the rectangular-shaped normal remotes.

It's fine if you can't keep the function for BD-J titles, if you can remember that there are some of those like us, maybe one day it will become possible.

thanks
gandalf