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Casino Royale, first high-def (Blu-Ray) dist to ship 100K units

post #1 of 12
3/27/07 at 6:01pm
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http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/news..._Milestone/544

Blu-Ray has now hit this milestone 2 months faster than DVD in 1998!
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post #2 of 12
3/27/07 at 6:03pm
And in an interesting turn, a rep from Microsoft in the UK (?--I think that's what I read) said that if Blu-Ray indeed wins "the format war" that MS will offer a Blu-Ray player for the XBox 360. Interesting words, considering Microsoft is one of the "founders" of the HD-DVD format.
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post #3 of 12
3/27/07 at 6:05pm
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Oh wow, do you have a link for that? thanks
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post #4 of 12
3/27/07 at 6:07pm
I saw it on the ticker on last night's Attack of the Show. You might be able to find a link on G4.com or AOTS.com, or Google it.
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post #5 of 12
3/27/07 at 6:12pm
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What I found was MS talking out of both sides of their mouth.

http://www.totally360.com/gameinfo.p...id&newsid=1448
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Neil Thompson, head of Microsoft Xbox UK has revealed that Microsoft will support the Blu-ray format, should it win the war of the formats.
The Xbox 360 already gives the gamer an option of an add-on for HD-DVD with a separate drive, and the potential option of a Blu-ray drive will only help Microsoft to continue to steal a march on the Playstation 3.
Thompson said: "Whatever format wins it is highly likely we will offer a solution. The only debate is if you want to watch Blu-ray movies and pay the extra money for that feature. We prefer to offer the consumer choice."
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http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?op...=5013&Itemid=2
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He gave Blu-ray short shrift, " It’s two, three years ahead of the market. People won’t want to replace their entire DVD collections, and they’ll get a better resolution with a standard DVD on an Xbox than a PS3.

“It’s nowhere near the importance of the format war between VHS and DVD,” he said. “The internet is becoming an increasingly important medium. Surely online is going to be the distribution method for much of the high-definition content.”
If it's not important, why do they sell and HD-DVD player and were integral in the creation of that format?
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post #6 of 12
3/27/07 at 6:46pm
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If it's not important, why do they sell and HD-DVD player and were integral in the creation of that format?
Because it removes a Sony talking point, satisfies a niche market whose ability to pontificate/whine on the internet is disproportionately high, and they can perhaps make money doing so?

I really wanted Casino Royale on HD-DVD. I'm getting pissed at this format war garbage.
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post #7 of 12
3/27/07 at 7:04pm
I bought an Xbox 360 primarily for the HD-DVD. While it looks great (although I can only get 1080i out of it since I don't have a receiver capable of upscaling the signal to 1080p with an HDMI out), the audio sucks ass. I'm an audiophile, and, given the choice, I'd still choose buying a film on standard def DVD versus its HD-DVD counterpart, given my Xbox HD-DVD player's audio shortcomings.

Various whispers on various forums tell of a mythical March update to fix this problem, but March is near over, and my crappy King Kong HD-DVD audio still sounds like it's coming from a Bose wave radio playing in my neighbor's backyard. Sorry about the tangent, but does anyone else feel my pain?
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post #8 of 12
3/27/07 at 7:12pm
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I think I read that Blu-Ray players were a bit better in the audio department, don't know if that's true (and wouldn't be able to tell, I'm definitely not an audiophile).

I'm still waiting to see which format wins, there's little value into joining this game early on at all.
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post #9 of 12
3/27/07 at 7:37pm
Dolby True-HD is great, so I know that HD-DVD is capable of great audio. Since the 360 downmixes this signal to a regular ol' DD 5.1, 360 HD-DVD owners don't get to see any of this love (yet, hopefully). In other words, it's a 360 problem, not an HD-DVD problem.
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post #10 of 12
3/27/07 at 8:02pm
I think we are seeing the final days of HD-DVD, honestly. There are rumors that Universal (the only studio not offering Blu-Ray titles at the moment) is about to strike a deal with Sony. That would mean every studio producing Blu-Ray titles while only 4 out of 7 making HD-DVD ones.
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post #11 of 12
3/27/07 at 8:47pm
I supported HD-DVD, but I ended up with a ps3. Now I just want Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men on Blu-Ray. Immediately.
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post #12 of 12
4/24/07 at 12:02pm
WalMart just announced that they will be stocking a $300 HD-DVD player in early 2008. Porn and WalMart seem to have both chosen HD-DVD--will they make the comeback and overtake Blu-Ray?
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