Your biggest Blu-ray related disappointment, in retrospect?

[lgans316]

As a dual format owner with slight preference to Blu-ray my disappointment is as follows

1) Warner not AXING HD DVD before CES'2007.
2) Non-availability of the basic Stop/Resume feature.
3) Menu design and graphics not up to the mark of HD DVD. The Warner menus suck on Blu-ray and shine on HD DVD.
4) Lack of interactive features. Some may consider this as irrelevant but when adopting a new format these kind of features become a crowd puller.
5) Fox repeatedly bumping street dates.
6) Paramount giving impartial treatment to Blu-ray since the beginning.
7) Pricing.

[owa]

Paramount decision.

Warner not releasing the same titles on blu-ray and HD DVD (not in the same time frame anyway), mostly because of all the threads asking about it.

[turboedguy]

I wanted Transformers. Damn you Paramount!

[Marcusarilius]

Originally Posted by turboedguy

I wanted Transformers. Damn you Paramount!

It should be slated. Maybe start a new thread on the topic. Someone here might know for sure when it's scheduled for release.

[Kristin Simard]

Originally Posted by JJxiv1215

Personally, for me it would have to be Fox's delaying of Master and Commander. October 2nd, then February 2nd, and now May 13th? They're breaking my heart on this, my favorite film of the new millenium.

If those delays are due to perfectionism, don't despair.

My biggest disappointment is that so many of my favorite films are not yet on Blu-ray and are not even announced for Blu-ray yet!

[Marcusarilius]

Originally Posted by Kristin Simard

If those delays are due to perfectionism, don't despair.

My biggest disappointment is that so many of my favorite films are not yet on Blu-ray and are not even announced for Blu-ray yet!

I guess I'm disapointed for Kristen as she loves so many wonderful foreign films that are unlikely to see the blu light of day anytime soon.

I hope they come around someday.

[martinstraka8282]

In Order:

-Buying an HD DVD player after the Paramount Decision with the intent to rent exlusives, only to find out that there was barely anything I even gave a crap about other than Transformers
-Paramounts "Decision"
-Paying money for Warner Bros. DVD quality transfers slapped on a BD
-No DTS HD Decoding on the PS3
-Lost Season 3 coming out with no plans for seasons 1&2
-Spending time arguing with HD DVD Fanboys

[d0uble0se7en]

haha i wonder how many of us were on vacation when Paramount struck. I was in my hotel in mexico. it was like 2 AM when i grabbed my dad's blackberry to play online...i went to blu-ray.com and practically screamed. i didn't sleep well at all that night.

[rreed]

I'd have to say my biggest disappointment happened early on - that Universial originally went with HD DVD. In the last few years, Universal cranked out United 93, Children of Men, Breach, the Bourne films, ect., all movies I'd love to have on Blu Ray. Absolutely! Of everything I've seen in the past few years, United 93 and Children of Men rank on the very top of my list of favorites.

That all said, with Universal going Blu hopefully this will be fixed soon.

-Ryan

[Banjo]

Lack of subtitles on special features.

[welwynnick]

My biggest disappintment was the first BD that I watched.

That was Vertical Limit, never the greatest film, but a rotton disc.

Having already seen some great films on HD DVD, I felt very disappointed as a devout blue supporter from the earliest days.

Accepting that you can't roll out a new format overnight, so it's quite reasonable to need a little patience for all the features and performance to roll out, it's been great since then.

Though Paramount sucks. I always said they made not only the wrong decision, but for the wrong reasons as well - the same reasons for going with HD DVD before the war started, and no new ones.

Nick

[katharsis]

I would have to say Paramount doomsday as well... I was really looking forward to Zodiac on BD! Almost went ahead and bought the HD DVD version, but now since it's over I think I can wait another few weeks!

[aygie]

Kill Bill 1 + 2 & Pulp Fiction being bumped 100 times.
T2's PQ.
No Die Hard 3 in Europe.

Really pisses me off.

[Maxell]

3 things really dissappointed me. #1 is the hddvd size limit that hampered neutral titles from having a full blu experience. #2 The movies that have awful or sub-par hi-def transfers. If you're gonna encode a movie that horribly, dont even bother. It's a shame many dvd's look better than many of the worse blu-rays. And #3 is the slow roll out of blu-ray movies. 2008 has been really slow with the exception of new from theater releases.

[RustyK94]

Finding out fox screwed up butch cassidy and the sundance kid bluray
and im hearing from the netherlands that the predator bluray is shi* to

Full metal jacket but i guess the source material was to blame
much like robocop i don't think ppl undestand that the PQ was good it was just the source it self that sucked


Die hard 3 would be up there to as sometimes distribution rights do end being a pain in the a$$ and we end with split release

Last i have to say region coding and no software hack yet which for me would be a dream to have a region free bluray player so i can get trainspotting from japan for example

I hope it get's a release in scotland soon

[TheTenth]

It would be the general attitude of the HD DVD / Microsoft side, so much fanatism and no possible dialogue, and the most sad is they are millions blinded by Microcrap's money, maybe some USA pride too against Sony (when Toshiba is a Japanese company too ...), no basic thought about product quality or studio support ...

[Sky_Captain]

The general disregard by Fox of their catalogue titles. BD25? MPEG-2? No features from the previous 2 disc DVD? How much? Clear off!!

[frank_t]

Sony BDP-S300.

I took it back for a PS3 because I could not live with the 2-4 mins. of startup time just to watch a BD-J authored movie.

[tron3]

Originally Posted by Spider1981

I remember when the Paramount crap went down. I was 2 days into a week and a half long vacation. It made me kind of angry for the rest of my time off.
That was the biggest thing for me, plus all the Fox delays to a much lesser degree.

I said this many times. The Paramount defection pissed me off for two weeks.
I thought about getting blu-ray for Spider-man 3, because I love Sandman and waited my whole life to see this movie. What better way to see the grain than in hi-def?

But then I saw Transformers in theaters the day it opened. I even stayed to catch the credits. As I walked up the isle, I looked back at the blank screen and told myself. "I am getting a blu-ray play for THIS movie." That was July. In August I bought the player. About a month later Paramount slapped us upside the head ala Steve O. with that wet fish known as "Hd DVD exclusive."


However, that worked in our favor. We would have received the Transformers HD DVD version converted over to BD with MAYBE a better sound track. The bit rate would never have maxed out the player. But now Michale Bay will oversee the movie Transfer to BD. That means, no second hand crap. In retrospect, that defection actually became a good thing.

[goodstuff]

The disappearance of The Silence of The Lambs from the release list