Universal finally goes Blu!!!

[AthlonXP1800]

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“While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and catalog titles on Blu-ray,” said Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

“The path for widespread adoption of the next-generation platform has finally become clear. Universal will continue its aggressive efforts to broaden awareness for high-def’s unparalleled offerings in interactivity and connectivity, at an increasingly affordable price. The emergence of a single, high-definition format is cause for consumers, as well as the entire entertainment industry, to celebrate.”

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/news/html/breaking_article.cfm?sec_id=2&&article_ID=12118

[shabby]

They should pay a penalty fee now ;)

[|MaguS|]

I wants my Serenity!

[Riptide]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/02/19/toshiba.hdd/index.html

Well folks thats all she wrote. Bye-bye HDDVD.

[NaitoSan]

i like to see them using "aggressive efforts" in their announcement. it's a good thing. :D

[Tomato]

Why does everyone want Serenity? I have seen it on HDDVD and it has to have been one of the worst movies ever. It was just cheesey as hell.

[ViN86]

yay for the inferior format winning!

yay for ****ting on the consumer!

and last but not least, yay for Sony shills!

hip hip, hooorrraaayyy!!


on a serious note, thx for starting the 1000th thread in this forum relating to this topic athlon. good work. :|

[|MaguS|]

yay for ****ting on the consumer!


Err, wasn't it the consumers who chose the winner? I mean tehy did buy far more Blu-Ray movies then HD-DVDs that made companies go exclusive to aim for more sales, rather then loses?

[Bman212121]

Err, wasn't it the consumers who chose the winner? I mean tehy did buy far more Blu-Ray movies then HD-DVDs that made companies go exclusive to aim for more sales, rather then loses?

+1

@op: Thanks for the info. I can't wait to see what they are going to release first. :)

[|JuiceZ|]

they didn't really have much choice....

[NaitoSan]

Err, wasn't it the consumers who chose the winner? I mean tehy did buy far more Blu-Ray movies then HD-DVDs that made companies go exclusive to aim for more sales, rather then loses?
+2

ViN86 is just bitter and hates Blu-ray because it has Sony on it, no matter what. ;)

[|MaguS|]

they didn't really have much choice....
In the beginning they had a choice... both formats had good backing... and hell HD-DVD had better quality yet the studios backing it is what caused it to fail. They didn't release enough titles aswell as enough good titles.

They gave the consumers a choice in the pricing aswell, the consumer went with the more expensive one because it provide them more titles, and hardware manufacturers.

[AngelGraves13]

HEROES!!

Give me seasons 1 & 2 please.

:)

[ViN86]

+2

ViN86 is just bitter and hates Blu-ray because it has Sony on it, no matter what. ;)
yep, naito knows exactly why i dont like BD... :rolleyes:

[S.I.N]

Heh, it was a given.


yep, naito knows exactly why i dont like BD... :rolleyes:

Is because Evilchris told you not to like it?

[ViN86]

Heh, it was a given.




Is because Evilchris told you not to like it?
no, it's because i read articles instead of buying Sony's spoonfed ****.

[emacs]

ViN86 is just bitter and hates Blu-ray because it has Sony on it, no matter what. ;)

i don't think it has anything to do with Sony. rather, it may be more about the restrictions on Blu-ray that are akin to standard definition DVD: region coding for example.

[Muppet]

i don't think it has anything to do with Sony. rather, it may be more about the restrictions on Blu-ray that are akin to standard definition DVD: region coding for example.
Don't mention Region coding to me, or i'm likely to shoot someone :D
I hates it, I do. Hates it with a passion.

[Imbroglio]

Don't mention Region coding to me, or i'm likely to shoot someone :D
I hates it, I do. Hates it with a passion.

oppo and other companies already have region free players in the works, and unlike dvd, apparently japan and us are in the same region. region encoding shouldn't end up being too bad with drm cracked and all, you could just re-author it with a different region if need be.

[NaitoSan]

i don't know if anyone is aware there's over 100 blu-ray titles are region free.

http://bluray.lindsite.dk/

you should be aware region coding on blu-ray is NOT mandatory.