Blu-ray's Dirty Little Secret

[admin]

So, after a long Blu-ray disc (BD) release hiatus by Fox and MGM, how does one celebrate the recent press release that new titles are coming? Why, one celebrates by buying one of these studios’ BD-only titles on HD DVD! Yes, Blu-ray-Only Titles are available on HD DVD. Yes, that is correct. One might ask: How does one do this? The answer has been available all along.


Discuss "Blu-ray's Dirty Little Secret" here. Read the article.

[stratman]

Just another layer in the onion that's called hi-def dvd.

[autoboy]

Very nice article that digs deeper into the "onion" of the format war than any other I have seen. Nice work. So, what about the extra cost of producing flip discs? As you know from past discussions, I am a big fan.

[sholling]

A very interesting article. I'm still fence sitting but leaning HD DVD because as I've said before the first one to reach the $100-130 price point wins the war and I can't see BD getting there for at least 3-4 years. I doubt that we will see a ton of sales this year but somehow I think by Christmas 2008 we'll see somebody hit that price.

Anyway one or two more pieces of good news and I may have to put an A20 in my rack.

[tn001d]

Are HD-DVD's region coded? I am assuming that there would be no problem playing the european disc here in the US..

Also were movies from Sony available on HD-DVD, like spider man and so forth. That would be amazing if Blu-ray's founder is releasing movies in HD-DVD

[jinjuku]

Originally Posted by tn001d

Are HD-DVD's region coded? I am assuming that there would be no problem playing the european disc here in the US..

Also were movies from Sony available on HD-DVD, like spider man and so forth. That would be amazing if Blu-ray's founder is releasing movies in HD-DVD

Toshiba and other HD-DVD partners dumped region encoding from the spec. Now if they would only deliver on the Managed Copy function, they some how keep touting, but never deliver on.

[DavidW]

Originally Posted by tn001d

Are HD-DVD's region coded? I am assuming that there would be no problem playing the european disc here in the US..

Also were movies from Sony available on HD-DVD, like spider man and so forth. That would be amazing if Blu-ray's founder is releasing movies in HD-DVD

HD-DVD is not region coded, they play anywhere.

Blu-ray is region coded into 3 regions that break down into:

1. North/South America including SE Asia and Japan
2. Europe/Africa/Australia
3. Asia except SE Asia

Some movies from Sony are available, so far I've seen xXx and Underworld Evolution. The full list of all the titles we found is in the article.

If any readers happen across others, let us know and post the web address where they are availible. I am sure there are HD-DVD owners who would love to know where they can get more titles.

[pbarach1]

...so as a result of this format war and all of the lying that's going on, my prediction is that neither of these new formats will win out because consumers will avoid them both in order to not get stuck with "orphaned" equipment and software. This is part of what happened to DVD-A and SACD (although SACD is limping along in the classical realm, especially outside of the US).

[gomo657]

I would like to say thank you, not many are aware of this capabilty. I've purchased several titles from Exploited and let me just say I'm well pleased Underworld Ev and The Island are two of my faves and I couldn't wait to watch on my A2. On some you have to disable the subtiles which is easy, and navigate the menus which sometimes aren't English but they are manageable. I encourage any movie lover to invest and enjoy.

[tiredofmshills]

Is this article a joke? There are several Universal titles out on Blu-Ray in Europe or Japan. Judging by some of your past articles on this seeker of truth site, you sure do not seem very interested in actually researching or reporting the truth.