July 22-28: A big week for Blu-ray news!

[beatboy77]

Over the past 72 hours we have heard the following from the Blu-ray camp:

- Close Encounters of the Third Kind Announced Exclusively on Blu-ray!!
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=351

- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Announced Exclusively on Blu-ray!!
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=353

- Target to Sell Blu-ray Players Exclusively
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=349

- Denon enters HD optical with Exclsuive Blu-ray support with the DVD-3800BDCI.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=340

- BJ's Wholesale Club Stores To Carry Blu-ray Exclusively
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6463556.html

- Woolworths go Blu-ray exclusive. Drop HD-DVD.
http://www.playthree.net/2007/07/woo...e-drop-hd.html

- Razor Digital announces Blu-ray Exclusivity with four IMAX titles for Blu-ray on November 13th.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=337

- Questar announces Blu-ray Exclusivity with three titles which include 'Rudy Maxa's Europe to the Max', 'The Enchanted Pacific to the Max' and a yet to be announced PBS nature series title.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=338

- Tartan Video confirms Blu-ray Exclusivity and announces three titles, 'Black Book', 'The Seventh Seal', and 'Oldboy' on October 23rd.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=336

- 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' announced for Exclusive release on Blu-ray for October 2nd.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=339

- 'Rein Over Me' announced for Exclusive release on Blu-ray forOctober 9th.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=334

~Josh

[kknight]

yep, good week indeed!

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by beatboy77

- BJ's
~Josh

LOL BJ's but that is some wonderful news I was worried we might not get
reign over me

[zombieking]

I have a stiffie just from reading all that great news!!!!


The only bad thing I read was about the film Zodiac, which was delayed indefinitely by Paramount. But even this story has a silver lining. When asked why Paramount cited they wanted to make a special edition for the hi-def format, so it will be released sometime in the future, just not anytime soon.

[The Big Blue]

It has been a huge week for Blu. Just wanna see it keep rolling, never letting up till HD DVD is dead.

[Guinness7]

Hopefully in the weeks to come we will hear some more good blu-ray news as well.

[babyBlu]

I would be interested in seeing HD DVD fans try to put together a list of "good news for HD DVD" instead of shooting down everything positive for Blu-ray. I bet it wouldn't take very long for them to make their list.

[NoQuestion]

Just announced was the release date for wolf creek, pan's Labyrinth, and the host for november!

[Blu Tiger]

Originally Posted by babyBlu

I would be interested in seeing HD DVD fans try to put together a list of "good news for HD DVD" instead of shooting down everything positive for Blu-ray. I bet it wouldn't take very long for them to make their list.

Why? Have any retailers decided to drop blu-ray and only sale HD DVD?

[ra1024]

Wow, we're starting to run out of dominos

[Mikeesracing]

Go Blu Go

[zombieking]

Originally Posted by NoQuestion

Just announced was the release date for wolf creek, pan's Labyrinth, and the host for november!

Where did you read this? And The Host was just released on blu-ray, or is it something entirely different?

[assur191]

It's in the front page article about Optimum going blu-ray. But this is for the UK only.

[mshulman]

Originally Posted by babyBlu

I would be interested in seeing HD DVD fans try to put together a list of "good news for HD DVD" instead of shooting down everything positive for Blu-ray. I bet it wouldn't take very long for them to make their list.

No it wouldn't take long - there hasn't been much. Only time will tell how any of these announcements affect anything.

I believe we are still at a stage where people aren't just buying blu-ray or HD DVD players on a whim. They may have heard about it and have looked in to buying it. All the store announcements do is make more people aware of blu-ray in general. But for the most part, someone buying from Target, BJ's or any other place is most likely walking in knowing they are going to buy it.

Product awareness is big though, so these are all still big announcements. How it affects consumers will unfold in the next few months.

[Dadds]

Bye Bye HD-DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[supersix4]

if they were smart theyd find a way to get movies to blu-ray super fast b4 dvd and hd-dvd that would ownnnnnnn!

[erowe83]

Originally Posted by beatboy77

Over the past 72 hours we have heard the following from the Blu-ray camp:

- Close Encounters of the Third Kind Announced Exclusively on Blu-ray!!
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=351

- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Announced Exclusively on Blu-ray!!
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=353

- Target to Sell Blu-ray Players Exclusively
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=349

- Denon enters HD optical with Exclsuive Blu-ray support with the DVD-3800BDCI.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=340

- BJ's Wholesale Club Stores To Carry Blu-ray Exclusively
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6463556.html

- Woolworths go Blu-ray exclusive. Drop HD-DVD.
http://www.playthree.net/2007/07/woo...e-drop-hd.html

- Razor Digital announces Blu-ray Exclusivity with four IMAX titles for Blu-ray on November 13th.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=337

- Questar announces Blu-ray Exclusivity with three titles which include 'Rudy Maxa's Europe to the Max', 'The Enchanted Pacific to the Max' and a yet to be announced PBS nature series title.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=338

- Tartan Video confirms Blu-ray Exclusivity and announces three titles, 'Black Book', 'The Seventh Seal', and 'Oldboy' on October 23rd.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=336

- 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' announced for Exclusive release on Blu-ray for October 2nd.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=339

- 'Rein Over Me' announced for Exclusive release on Blu-ray forOctober 9th.
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=334

~Josh

All i need know is fox to announce the Die Hard Collection, Aliens Collection, Predator Collection, and Simpsons Movie and series and game.set.match.

[calgarymarc]

Originally Posted by erowe83

All i need know is fox to announce the Die Hard Collection, Aliens Collection, Predator Collection, and Simpsons Movie and series and game.set.match.

Don't forget 'Transformers' too

[Pilam69]

Originally Posted by calgarymarc

Don't forget 'Transformers' too

Every anouncement that a store is going Blu just reminds people that they are choosing a side and that side is Blu. It's just like VHS/Betamax back in the day, except this time the quality is going to win out over the cheapness of production.

[AlaskaDon]

I feel like I'm getting really spoiled. Every time I log in to the forum here I expect to see another big announcement. This has really been a super week and the Neilsen numbers were like icing on the cake