Cinderella Man a Universal movie on Blu-ray in Japan

[LFletcher]

As WriteSimply said, don't get too excited. Cinderella Man is a Disney film in Japan and not Universal, so no defection yet. Similarly U-571 and Spy Game are distributed by EIV in the UK (I believe).

[GTP]

Originally Posted by LFletcher

As WriteSimply said, don't get too excited. Cinderella Man is a Disney film in Japan and not Universal, so no defection yet. Similarly U-571 and Spy Game are distributed by EIV in the UK (I believe).

Its not about Universal being neutral...its about not needing to support two formats.

Who cares who distributes them as long as they play in our players.

[Chris Beveridge]

And even though the Japanese releases may be expensive compared to the US releases, given time, the Korean and Taiwanese releases will continue to come out and they'll be much closer if not less than US releases, as we see with DVD.

In the meantime, I just rent Universal DVDs and upscale them. Or watch it on HBO or Cinemax in HD.

[zzap64]

2007 is going to look very Blu

Warners announcement that they will be releasing all their initial HD DVD movies on Blu-ray in 2007 is great news.

[Dave]

Find some more examples!
Here is the proof that its an Universal movie:
http://homevideo.universalstudios.co...p?titleId=2594
http://www.cinderellamanmovie.com/index.php

[LFletcher]

Originally Posted by GTP

Its not about Universal being neutral...its about not needing to support two formats.

Who cares who distributes them as long as they play in our players.

Yes I know this, I was just explaining that Universal haven't had a change of heart in Japan (or any other country) - so let's not get too excited yet. Currently it's only one film, I'm sure there will be others, but Blu Ray won't be getting the full Universal catalogue anytime soon.

[GTP]

Originally Posted by LFletcher

Yes I know this, I was just explaining that Universal haven't had a change of heart in Japan (or any other country) - so let's not get too excited yet. Currently it's only one film, I'm sure there will be others, but Blu Ray won't be getting the full Universal catalogue anytime soon.

Actually its three titles so far ....and lets not forget that Jurrasic Park was a Sony Superbit in other parts of the world.....so we could technically get Universal titles not even available on hd dvd in the future.

Lets just hope they play on our players.

I have already owned both the HD-A1 and the RCA branded HD-A1, and am already hearing of more glitches on the just released HD-A2.....so anything from Universal that plays back without the glitches aka (BD) gets me excited.