Archived: Insiders Thread

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by UltimateFighter

Hey Penton,

Does it specifically have to be WB titles? or are they looking at overall #'s?

-Thanks

The later.
But the former would send a strong message with vigor!

[WickyWoo]

Penton back atcha

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Penton back atcha

And back to you.
Gotta go.

[kaliraver]

Hey Penton, thanks for your inside knowledge & I am definitely glad you're on our side

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by kaliraver69

Hey Penton, thanks for your inside knowledge & I am definitely glad you're on our side

+1

[FFObsessed]

Wow. It's very reassuring to know that it's the overall numbers that will sway their decision!

Looks like it's showdown time ladies and gentlemen!

[spam.curitiba]

Penton,

would CES be the earliest that we hear something?

[MerrickG]

Warner Brothers Australia and New Zealand have now denied the reports:

http://www.current.com.au/2007/12/12...EMPTGCOKS.html

[Dalese]

Originally Posted by merrick97

Warner Brothers Australia and New Zealand have now denied the reports:

http://www.current.com.au/2007/12/12...EMPTGCOKS.html

... and Blades of Glory was to be a Blu-ray title also right up to the "official announcement".

[BluStar88]

Originally Posted by Dalese

... and Blades of Glory was to be a Blu-ray title also right up to the "official announcement".

So true. They are not going to do anything but repeat previous quotes, which is exactly what this was, until they are damn good and ready to make the final announcemnet. And I highly doubt the final announcement to come out of Australlia.

[*TIMMIE*]

Originally Posted by BluStar88

So true. They are not going to do anything but repeat previous quotes, which is exactly what this was, until they are damn good and ready to make the final announcemnet. And I highly doubt the final announcement to come out of Australlia.

From the highly recommended AVS forums?

[scragham]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

The later.
But the former would send a strong message with vigor!

hah.

it occurs to me that my mother has deemed it my responsibility to build my parents' movie collection in their vacation home. it's admittedly a little embarrassing for a married 32 yo professional with a child on the way to be tasked with something like this, but this does seem to have certain advantages at this point... especially since total price is really no barrier.

of course, my innate sense of fiduciary responsibility to my parents demands that at least i wait for deals before shelling out their hard-earned bucks. but hey, numbers be numbers.

[sphdle1]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

...Yes, I’m in the loop, just as I was when Paramount got mounted ………………

Has quill-pen hit paper(s) yet, you ask?
No, not yet, so keep buying those WB Blu-rays this holiday season and when we look back in retrospect on this situation we can all proudly claim that we won this thing truly on consumer merit- so that the red ants never cry foul as other dominos fall successively.
...

For those who don't like Warner, don't stop buying their titles because of it, but hit the HP titles like mad, especially OOTP...WB are watching.
.

[cooper1010]

Originally Posted by merrick97

Warner Brothers Australia and New Zealand have now denied the reports:

http://www.current.com.au/2007/12/12...EMPTGCOKS.html

"...we can’t say what might happen in five or ten years..."

5 or 10 yrs?! i'll be watching neurally implanted movies in my flying car in 10 yrs

[bootman]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Mystik, if you don’t get your Blu-rays, I’ll send you one of only 10 or so made Blu-ray black bomber jackets with an embroidered Blu-ray insignia on the front for those awful cold nights in South Beach.

...but only if we get a pic back with her wearing it proudly.

[hanser]

paidgeek,

on the Sharp BD player the 7669 code for calibration pictures on Sony BDs does not work and they have no intention to provide this function. Perhaps it would be a better idea to put the pictures just in the menu like the THX optimode pictures on DVDs? That way they could be used on every player.

[zipbags]

Originally Posted by cooper1010

"...we can’t say what might happen in five or ten years..."

5 or 10 yrs?! i'll be watching neurally implanted movies in my flying car in 10 yrs

Maybe, they meant five or ten minutes.

[Rob Tomlin]

Originally Posted by cooper1010

"...we can’t say what might happen in five or ten years..."

5 or 10 yrs?! i'll be watching neurally implanted movies in my flying car in 10 yrs

[PeteS]

Our company produces custom DVDs and BDs. Back when DVD was fledgling we would have these debates on the DVD forums. We would say 'DVD is going to be big and fast' and others would say it would be decades if ever. Well, we were right. (Any old-timers here remember that?) And, this feels the same.

So let me go out on a limb here and say I expect Blu-Ray adoption to accelerate. The factors: the upcoming DTV transition in the US, lowering HDTV prices, increasing consumer understanding of 1080p etc, but most importantly, I think, the Blu-Ray team is on-the-ball.

[WickyWoo]

On the denials

WB has shown over the years that the only international divisions more disconnected from the real movements of the parent is Universal. They will deny everything until instructed not to