Friday, September 7th 2007

Transformers Movie HD-DVD Exclusive; Will be Released on October 16th

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Transformers producer Micheal Bay was quite confused when deciding what to release his summer blockbuster (the Transformers movie) on. Fortunately for anyone with an HD-DVD player, Paramount studios decided to give Micheal Bay a little advice. By promising Micheal Bay enough profits to create a Transformers 2, Paramount ensured that the only HD format Transformers would see is HD DVD. On October 16th, Transformers fans worldwide can see the movie on HD DVD, as well as the standard DVD format. Transformers fans will also be delighted to hear that Transformers will be coming in a two-disk package, which will be ripe with full-HD features. HD DVD owners will also get the benefits of an "Intelligence Mode", which can describe each robot's strengths/weaknesses as the movie is playing.
Source: DailyTech
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31 Comments on Transformers Movie HD-DVD Exclusive; Will be Released on October 16th

#26
spacejunky
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I'm sure everyone saw this but we can have the link in here.

BD Sales falling
Source Anandtech

Bottom line is this war is more like DVD+R vs DVD-R rather than Beta vs VHS. If the Manufacturers don't offer drives that support both formats, they will not sell any products. LG seems to be the only one to have figured this out with dual formats for both PC and set top boxes.

Unfortunately, we have to deal with it but I think both formats are here to stay. Dual format players will make it a non issue though. The biggest problem with BD is the price/royalties to Sony which will keep the price high for the dual format players for a while. Can you imagine how much BD players would cost if there wasn't HD-DVD? It's a double edged sword.
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#27
Steevo
If we look at who is backing what, MS and other studios, against Sony, and a few studios.......







I believe HD is going to push BR off the side, not because it is better, not because it is worse. Just market push. Consumers as of yet have not made up their mind, and the few that have aren't enough to sway the market. One day someone is going to make a few million cheap players, and a studio will only offer a movie or two in that format and this will all be over.


Sounds like a move MS would make with collaboration from a couple other "sleeping partners".
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#28
mrw1986
I have both players as well, a PS3 and an HD-Drive on my 360. Personally I think the image quality is better on the blu-ray. I'm running both at 1080p on my 40" 1080p LCD.
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#29
mrw1986
V lyxIf they haven't already, then sooner or later a company will make a bd & HD dvd player and this "war" will be over. (If they sell it for cheap.) Anyways I only own a xbox hd-dvd player for my computer since it was the cheapest of them all and am glad to see Paramount making transformers in hd-dvd format.(Cause I'm cheap.)
There already is one of the players...been out for a while now.
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#30
ChaoticBlankness
EastCoasthandleThen you need to understand how large these movie files are. Did you know there are few TRUE BR50 discs out there even though they are labeled BR50? Here, read the facts, make sure you read DISC SIZE. Notice any true 50 Gig discs? I am sure there are some who don't mind converting all their backup CD/DVDs to BR just to support a format but in all honesty it's a waste of time and not an efficient means to backup media (specially when you already have it backed up and can use any CD/DVD player to read them).
Um.. I intend to use BluRay for all sorts of files and purposes. I'm not very concerned at all about how large or small the movies are. I only wish to have a portable medium to hold my files.
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#31
Wile E
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mrw1986I have both players as well, a PS3 and an HD-Drive on my 360. Personally I think the image quality is better on the blu-ray. I'm running both at 1080p on my 40" 1080p LCD.
Did you compare using the same movie in both formats? You can't compare 2 different movies, because different movies use different encoding methods and codecs. Some still use Mpeg2, whilst others may use H.264. I have both players as well, and when you use the same title on both formats, you can't distinguish them.
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