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Movie studios announce Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD titles
Posted on 04/01/06 15:50 by Johnny
The
Consumer Electronics Show (CES) starts tomorrow and most movie studios are there
expected to announce their first HD titles to be released in the Blu-ray Disc
format and/or HD DVD format. 20th Century Fox and
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Some movies are a bit crappy. One thing tho, who on earth is gonna buy HD-DVD when you can buy all the same movies and more choice from Sony and Fox on Blu-ray?
oh gee, with such a fantastic choice of films from both camps, i guess i'll be forced to upgrade to HD because i am a gullable ****. god damn it, think i'm going to pay all that money just to see these (mostly) rubbish films in HD.....you know seeing them in HD doesn't make the films any better, which is a pity. so maybe you should release some good films so you actually create "demand" for your productWell, contrary to the responses above, there are some good movies listed that I wouldn't mind watching in HD, i.e. Fifth Element, Robocop and Terminator 2.
The two problems with that are 1) even supposing HD players were already available at reasonable prices (yeah, right), I still would have to repurchase those movies all over again at $20 a pop, the only difference is new HD media, just like milking the cow and consumer is the cow and 2) is that the movies are still transferred from the same source, and if the source is bad, HD media will not make it better. For example HD version of Terminator 2 on Extreme Edition DVD doesn't look much better than the regular one, the differences are almost nonexistant, if this is any indication, then buying HD would be a waste of money.
Do you really think the greedy Hollywood ?????
are going to let these go for $20 each. They will
come up with all kinds of excuses to charge
$29 or $39 each.
Of course unless the movie is filmed digitally and re-transferred (aka re-mastered) then there won't be any increase in quality.
IMHO the movies that will benefit most are teh 3d rendered movies, if they get re-rendered at the new resolution.
I'll pass the the HD generation until players cost $49-$99 and every movie is digitally filmed.
About four or five years ago, most studios began making high definition transfers of their films. You've never seen the high definition versions -- the DVDs were derived from the high definition versions but that is akin to having an mp3 of an original wav file.
Because high definition masters exist of most recent films, most recent films will not need to be retransferred from celluloid - but there will still be an impressive leap in visual quality when you see them on BluRay or HDDVD because you will at last be seeing them in nearly their full archival resolution rather than the stepped-down quality of DVD.
I recall about a year ago an engineer posted screen captures from the HD master of The Fifth Element (well, actually the HD master compressed with WMV), and it was a bazillion times better than the reduced DVD image. Even better than the Superbit DVD. Well, maybe not a bazillion, but a huge difference in resolution. Much closer to the level of detail of a real celluloid film. You can see for yourself here:
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htforum/showthread.php?&postid=2522045#post2522045
The suggestion that only computer animated films will have greater resolution is complete and utter BS. I've corrected that BS before.
The new Quicktime trailers in HD are also amazing. Not all HD trailers on Apple's website are good though. However, checking King Kong and Harry Potter made my jaw dropped. For those that have not check out their HD trailers, go check them out to have a taste of HD resolution and quality.
HEY,,i wonder if sony will bring out there old beta selection to bluray and say its new and improved,,,
That is a pure speculation. Even if we suppose it's true, it probably only applies to movies filmed after 1995 or so. 80's and early 90's movies are bad enough even on DVD that remastering them on the new HD media will not help them at all. Once again, see the HD Terminator 2 example.
There's no speculation involved. Celluloid has greater resolution than DVD. Therefore a higher resolution video format will present more of that detail. One could argue that some films are inherently grainy (films from the 1970s particularly) but a high def transfer will capture that grain more authentically than a DVD.
Better get used to the idea, soon nothing will
be released on the good old dvd's, only the new formats, how do you think, they goona force people to switch formats ???.
Give it 18 - 20 months top, and no new movies on dvd's.
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