Digital Bits: HBO is Blu only, Paramount & Uni ARE going Blu, too

[McLovin]

Is it just me or can they make that webpage any harder to read?

I now return you to the regularly scheduled discussion.

[ranma]

This would be 2nd of 1234 threads in next couple of days

[MarekM]

Originally Posted by Pellaeon

Band of Brothers would be a DEFINITE buy for me!

+1 same here

Marek

[The Don]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

you really gotta wonder why toshiba is being such a d1ck about things. they know they are going to lose both of them, so why not just fold up shop, stop wasting everybody's money, let universal and paramount go blu-ray asap and say that hd dvd is done with.

right now I would imagine their anger is getting the best of them...

did you not see super-***** stand up at the podium at CES for Toshiba?...

her face looked like she was going to transform and cast a spell on everyone...

"...and you know what?...oops I forget what I was going to say...who is supporting us again?.."

[Memnoch71]

Originally Posted by stockstar1138

you really gotta wonder why toshiba is being such a d1ck about things. they know they are going to lose both of them, so why not just fold up shop, stop wasting everybody's money, let universal and paramount go blu-ray asap and say that hd dvd is done with.

Do you realize how much money they stand to loose because of this? This could seriously cripple them.

[The Don]

Originally Posted by Memnoch71

Do you realize how much money they stand to loose because of this? This could seriously cripple them.

you mean opposed to the money they lose on every player sold?...

of course I bet MS has compensated them very well for their losses

[tron3]

I can wait on any Universal announcement as all I really want from them right now is the Shrek Trilogy.

However, Transformers is why I bought blu-ray! I'm chomping at the (digital) bit for Paramount to give it up already.

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by Memnoch71

Do you realize how much money they stand to loose because of this? This could seriously cripple them.

its going to either way, so why not stop the bleeding right now.

toshiba is going to be in big trouble this quarter with its investors.

people will be spending more time with their families.

[Kratos3]

It's still great news though! I, personally, don't get tired of hearing it.

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by The Don

right now I would imagine their anger is getting the best of them...

did you not see super-***** stand up at the podium at CES for Toshiba?...

her face looked like she was going to transform and cast a spell on everyone...

"...and you know what?...oops I forget what I was going to say...who is supporting us again?.."

ive watched the youtube video a hundred times, its hilarious.

and you know what that means, dual audio processors (yes thats nice that the player can decode more than 1 audio codec, too bad the disc is too small to support anything but lossy audio in a lot of cases or if it does support loseless you gimp something else)...

[monkyman]

Total Facial H-DUD

[hollywoodguy]

Originally Posted by CptGreedle

I don't know about you guys, but I am also excited at the possibility of a new Police album! W00T!

QUOTED FOR M'F'N TRUTH!!!

[jason_grumpy]

Actually I find the way this is winding down very funny in an odd sort of way....

It's no longer a Format War, but the battle of the contract. By the looks of it, all that will be left of HD-DVD in a month is scorched earth.

[greekjgg]

Originally Posted by Blu-Ray Buckeye

You can announce it w/o the actual logistics in place as long as you throw out a future date that has some forethought. It has been known to happen in the corporate world.

Technically they could, but they probably want to give the impression that it isn't just a response to Warners decision. For their own saving face reasons they probably want to look like they already were in the planning stages and probably want to release some substance and details other then "We are going blu".

Also, they may want their own stage and announce after the warner news has died down some so that they get their own publicity instead of riding the coat tails of warner and getting mixed in with the other million posts about warner this week.

[Geech]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=30919

[Kratos3]

Originally Posted by Memnoch71

Paramount already has product ready to run out to the Stores. (All of the Blu-Ray Disks that they recalled when the Payoff went down!) Followed shortly by actual Product on the shelf.

Transformers and Top Gun should see the shelves soon if that's the case.

[Ferris]

Personally, I found this to be the funniest sentence in the article...

"But retailers are now seriously pressuring these studios to go Blu, and we'd be surprised if many mainstream stores still have HD-DVD hardware and software on their shelves come next Christmas."

Scorched Earth, indeed.

[Geech]

Originally Posted by CptGreedle

I don't know about you guys, but I am also excited at the possibility of a new Police album! W00T!

Ha

[greekjgg]

Originally Posted by Kratos3

Transformers and Top Gun should see the shelves soon if that's the case.

Was it close enough to the release that they did print Transformers on blu?

I think Paramount will want to make their first release on blu special and they will release Transformers as their first blu release while its still a hot title before next summers blockbusters start to hit.

[SpaceDog]

Bring on Rome Blu and Angels in America Blu.
I'll pre-order.