Archived: Insiders Thread

[patrick99]

Originally Posted by paidgeek

I would like to have your comments on "The Company". I think it is a great example of well-done digital cinematography.

I watched Part 3 last night. What I look for in any high def release is the facial close-ups, and the close-ups in this release look truly superb. I plan to watch the whole thing again now, probably before watching any of my other unwatched purchases. Keaton is really outstanding in this, along with a number of the other cast members.

[Papi4baby]

Originally Posted by paidgeek

I think they are not happy about the cost of preparing titles versus the potential sales. We will see what can be done to help this...

Great to hear Sony or BDA helping out the smaller studios. In my book this is a way to win the studios over, thanks for the hard work.

Originally Posted by woodspoon

Paidgeek, I have read that the spanish edition of CEOT3K has 2 truehd tracks (english and spanish) AND a DTS HD MA track. Is that info accurate? If so, I think it´s a first, and an amazing demonstration of the power of blu-ray, doing something the competition can only dream of...

Wow TrueHD in spanish too??? I might have to import this one just so my parents can enjoy once they visit, on spanish and HD yay. I hope is true.

P.S. Thanks to the BDA for the BOGO, great tactic.

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Paid, you might want to check with Sony International. I know that people asked for that on MASH, and they were shown in the UK with no laugh track so they were able to include it.

Yes! I knew something rang a bell when I was thinking about this.
I do remember that MASH issue, and the laughter-free release


* And Paidgeek, I know you're not biting on my BD release date question (even a year would do, LOL!!) but don't worry you're not losing a sale; I'll still buy the DVD complete series boxset, I just sold my Season 1-8 sets and I can't be doing without my Seinfeld now, can I?!????

[Rustmonsteru]

For Anyone:

I’m curious if someone can tell me where Image Entertainment stands right now so far as blu-ray is concerned. This Spring in Arstechnica they sighted mastering cost per title as being prohibitively high for them to enter the arena. This Summer our own news shows they are at least involved with some projects. So it’s fall and I’m wondering if anything has changed in their stance. I’m primarily interested in the library of properties they acquired from HVE when they purchased that company. Thanks.

The relevant links:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060316-6400.html
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=317

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by BigB88

Tell me when we will start seeing some of the more popular titles from Sony (aka Columbia) Pictures such as;

Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Oliver!
Guns of Navarone
City Slickers
Ghandi
Blue Thunder

It seems to me that if Sony Pictures wants to enhance the position of BD, they would begin to release more of their popular content on to the format.

Several of these will be released in 2008.

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by ghostcat

why is region coding so unhealthy i would think if all movies were region free blu-ray movie sales would go through the roof i am in australia and we can hardly buy any blu-ray movies in the usa there are a load of them i would love cant buy cos of your stupid region code rubbish

May I ask why you don't want to buy your local version? Some titles are being released into your market before, or at the same time as the US market.

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by paidgeek

Several of these will be released in 2008.

Excellent news. Cannot wait for LOA.

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

Paid, you might want to check with Sony International. I know that people asked for that on MASH, and they were shown in the UK with no laugh track so they were able to include it.

Okay, I'll check...

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by paidgeek

May I ask why you don't want to buy your local version? Some titles are not being released into your market before, or at the same time as the US market.

Sometimes the US version may have a better audio, example Pans has a better audio track than the version being released in Europe. For some reason Enterainment in video which releases New Lines films in the UK/Ireland have mediocre versions released.

[BillCable]

Question to insiders:

Any interesting reactions on the inside to this week's Neilsen's?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by BillCable

Question to insiders:

Any interesting reactions on the inside to this week's Neilsen's?

Some people in the Blu crew offices are laughing like this today………………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=290w4Ec08O8

Congrats to all the buying public, we gave you the ball but, YOU guys ran with it.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Petra_Kalbrain

I think Warner will be making some sort of move in this war first. I'm suspicious about recent delays and lack of announcements. All of which is taking place surrounding their BDA contract expiry/renewal date. I know that Paidgeek told me otherwise (https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=4723) but he specifically said "IS STILL VERY MUCH". This didn't clarify that their contract was renewed. Of course they STILL ARE a member of the BDA, but what will they be the day after their current contract expires?

Please forgive my persistence... I'm not trying to advocate chaos, I'm just seeking something more concrete to alleviate this bubbling fear within the pit of my stomach.

All indications on our side are that they are going to continue to support Blu-ray.

[Cplhicks]

Are there any worries, or is anything being done to combat Walmart stocking a sub-$200 HD-DVD player? I'm assuming since it's an old model that Walmart will just sell out the remaning stock and be done with it, but still, that could increase HD numbers significantly to the Wally World crowd.

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by woodspoon

Paidgeek, I have read that the spanish edition of CEOT3K has 2 truehd tracks (english and spanish) AND a DTS HD MA track. Is that info accurate? If so, I think it´s a first, and an amazing demonstration of the power of blu-ray, doing something the competition can only dream of...

This is corrrect. I think all 6 versions will have 3 lossless tracks.

[cjamescook]

Apparently the general buying public on Amazon likes the BD version of 2001.

Particular mention is made of the sound.

See the reviews at
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...blurayforum-20

[WriteSimply]

Originally Posted by paidgeek

This is corrrect. I think all 6 versions will have 3 lossless tracks.

You guys at SPHE should tell the folks at Warner and Microsoft how that is done - seamless branching with 3 lossless tracks.

paidgeek, for SPHE titles outside of the US - ie South East Asia or even Europe - who does the encode? More importantly, are the masters scrutinized as intensely as they are as the US titles?


fuad

[Merlins]

Originally Posted by paidgeek

May I ask why you don't want to buy your local version? Some titles are not being released into your market before, or at the same time as the US market.

And some titles are never (or takes more than 5 year) released in my market. Region coding might be good for studios then they split up market with local distributors and to ensure that people go to the theater before buying the movie but it does not help the customers and I think it only lowers the sales.

Region coding stops the free market. With Internet the market is the World. Why don't Sony (and others) makes more World-releases of their discs, especially their catalogue titles? I only know of one Blu-ray title aimed to the the whole world and it is Replacement Killers. Would love to see more titles with lots of sub-titles. I'm not a fan of dub so even if the titles included many soundtracks, the original soundtrack is enough.

You also have large minority groups in both USA and Europe that does not read the local language and don't understand English. My fiancé is one example and I like that Sony has Thai on some of their discs but I want more.

Why don't the studios include more subtitles (especially on catalogue titles that have them from the DVD-versions) on the movies?

I would also like studios to stop using region coding but Sony is not worst here. I have personally solved it by buying two PS3:s but it's not the best solution.

[juanleche]

The below was posted on a different gaming news site. Will we see Sony responding to this issue in the future? If not what is the reason? Why has there been no comment by Sony on this subject at all? Should not all HDTV owners see all PS3 HD Blu-Ray games in HD? Currently they don't. Why is this been allowed to go on for 1 year with no official comment?


" That is correct. One of the most noticeable ones was just a few weeks ago, I had put a blog entry up on the US PlayStation blog, and I got a bunch of responses asking me about the resolutions we support. Up until that day, we were only supporting 720p and it never really crossed our minds to support anything else. In the US, we have this issue where a lot of early adopters with HDTVs have TVs that only support 1080i. So if you have a TV that supports 1080i and the game only supports 720p, the PS3 will default to 480p, which isn't even high-def and is not the way Uncharted should be experienced. So they bought that to my attention--I mean, it was kind of embarrassing that we didn't know that before--and literally within the hour we had 1080i support up to take care of all those people. "

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/u...1783&mode=news

Also: http://boardsus.playstation.com/play...43693#M1543693

[Papi4baby]

Originally Posted by juanleche

The below was posted on a different gaming news site. Will we see Sony responding to this issue in the future? If not what is the reason? Why has there been no comment by Sony on this subject at all? Should not all HDTV owners see all PS3 HD Blu-Ray games in HD? Currently they don't. Why is this been allowed to go on for 1 year with no official comment?


" That is correct. One of the most noticeable ones was just a few weeks ago, I had put a blog entry up on the US PlayStation blog, and I got a bunch of responses asking me about the resolutions we support. Up until that day, we were only supporting 720p and it never really crossed our minds to support anything else. In the US, we have this issue where a lot of early adopters with HDTVs have TVs that only support 1080i. So if you have a TV that supports 1080i and the game only supports 720p, the PS3 will default to 480p, which isn't even high-def and is not the way Uncharted should be experienced. So they bought that to my attention--I mean, it was kind of embarrassing that we didn't know that before--and literally within the hour we had 1080i support up to take care of all those people. "

http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/u...1783&mode=news

Also: http://boardsus.playstation.com/play...43693#M1543693

Hey juanleche John Milk in spanish aasdlkfjdf oiuroweir uoiuoiu freaking later. I thought this was fix a couple of firmwares ago. Is been and issue since the begining. From what i understand check your setting on the most current FW, i think they made it so 720P games get upcoverted to 1080i just like DVD's.

[juanleche]

Originally Posted by Papi4baby

Hey juanleche John Milk in spanish aasdlkfjdf oiuroweir uoiuoiu freaking later. I thought this was fix a couple of firmwares ago. Is been and issue since the begining. From what i understand check your setting on the most current FW, i think they made it so 720P games get upcoverted to 1080i just like DVD's.

Nope, that firmware allowed the upscaling of all other media besides PS3 games. One can upscale a PS1 or PS2 game to display in 1080, but a PS3 game like Motorstorm, Resistance or Heavenly Sword all drop down to 480p on HDTVs that only accept 1080 and not 720. This has not been fixed yet via firmware, nor has it been officialy acknowledged by Sony. To date this is the only HD output device that does not scale all media to the desired HD resolution (in the way a set top cable box can upscale a 720p signal to 1080)