HD DVD and Blu-ray releases on Janurary 30th, 2007
Another week of the format war passes and while Universal eased many concerns in the HD DVD camp, we still don't have any new dates so we will have to just wait and see. Warner continues to lead the way in both camps this week with Beerfest and The Wicker Man, both worth catching. Fox pulls out a few catalog titles, but nothing to brag about. With only one week to go before the two camps are tied in the titles count category there is no end in sight to this war and we are starting to wonder what it would take for Universal, Fox or Disney to change sides.HD DVD 156 vs Blu-ray 152.
Blu-ray
- Beerfest (Warner)
- Flyboys (Fox)
- Hart's War (Fox)
- Open Season (Sony)
- The Wicker Man (2006) (Warner)
- Beerfest (Warner)
- Half Baked (Universal)
- The Wicker Man (2006) (Warner)
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
humpty @ Jan 29th 2007 6:16PM
Bye, bye HD-DVD (http://www.highdefdigest.com/)...
February 06, 2007
* American Psycho (Blu-ray)
* Failure to Launch (Blu-ray)
* Failure to Launch (HD DVD)
* First Blood (Blu-ray)
* Hollywoodland (HD DVD)
* Reservoir Dogs (Blu-ray)
* Running With Scissors (Blu-ray)
* The Tailor of Panama (Blu-ray)
February 13, 2007
* Broken Arrow (Blu-ray)
* Chain Reaction (Blu-ray)
* The Departed (Blu-ray)
* The Departed (HD DVD)
* Entrapment (Blu-ray)
* Ladder 49 (Blu-ray)
* Marie Antoinette (Blu-ray)
* The Marine (Blu-ray)
* Phone Booth (Blu-ray)
* Planet of the Apes (Blu-ray)
* Reign of Fire (Blu-ray)
* The Sentinel (Blu-ray)
* The Usual Suspects (Blu-ray)
SupportHDDVD @ Jan 29th 2007 9:19PM
Did you read everything on this site, if not you should, blu-ray just has a little boost (of old titles by the way) companies wanna make money and when they will get that sony's blu-ray is a rip-off believe me you will see some change. HDDVD will have the last word. 01june2007.
Mike @ Jan 29th 2007 8:42PM
Prices of HD DVD players will still draw more consumers which will lead to more future releases of HD DVD movies.
HDDVD2WIN @ Jan 29th 2007 9:19PM
Well said mike, couldn't say better. Just wait a few more months when those company will see that they losing money.
hmurchison @ Jan 29th 2007 9:18PM
Ohhhhhhh so scary humpty.
Ethan @ Jan 29th 2007 9:21PM
@1 Bye Bye Hd-dvd? I don't know about you but I see that list and I see some pretty "Crappy movie titles." Where are the true block buster titles? oh by the way humpty that number of blue-ray will get burned later. Did you hear 100 Plus tv and movie shows coming from Universal! Oh and they're Dual-Combo, nothing like playing my movie on any dvd player. :p
zombieflanders @ Jan 30th 2007 9:39AM
"Did you hear 100 Plus tv and movie shows coming from Universal!"
Did you hear 100 coming from Sony alone! Not counting Disney, Fox, and LGF! Nice try!
"Oh and they're Dual-Combo, nothing like playing my movie on any dvd player. :p"
It's too bad that even most HD fans consider combos too expensive.
Dave @ Jan 30th 2007 5:32AM
hd dvd is falling every day!
1,55 Million PS3 players http://vgcharts.org/ , and more than 200 000 Sony, Panasonic, Pioneer and Samsung players VS 178000 hd dvd players.
Sales:
DVDEmpire
http://www.dvdempire.com/index.asp?u...ite_media_id=0
Blu-ray this week: 65.46%
Blu-ray this month: 59.42%
Amazon:
Blu-ray leads in:
Salesrank of top 10 products
Salesrank of top 25 products
Salesrank of top 100 products
# in top 1000
# in the top 10000
Number of DVDs that can be purchased today
HD DVD leads in:
Total copies in stock at Amazon
LOL
http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/
Xyzzy @ Jan 30th 2007 9:00AM
I love it, Dave! When HD-DVD was kicking BD's ASS for 9 months, all BD fanboys said was, "That site is biased, it doesn't count!" Now that the rankings are neck-and-neck, BD fanidiots, err, fanboys say, "Look, we're winning!" Gimme a break.
B @ Jan 30th 2007 7:40AM
Engadgethd loses credibility for this statement: "Warner continues to lead the way in both camps this week with ... The Wicker Man, ... worth catching"
If Warner has decided to waste $ on deploying The Wicker Man in *any* format, I now count them out as any sort of factor in the format war.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wicker_man/
Give us material worth buying.
Ben @ Jan 30th 2007 8:05AM
B,
Sorry you misunderstood, we meant they lead the way because the have released more titles than anyone and continue to release more titles. The statement is based on quantity not necessarily quality which is obviously debatable.
Dave @ Jan 30th 2007 11:04AM
The site is still hd dvd biased! The stats are way better for Blu-ray but they dont show it. The gap grows with every day and i dont see any signs slowing down.
zombieflanders @ Jan 30th 2007 9:30AM
Wrong site, dude. It's EProductWars that's biased. Every time Blu-ray has taken the lead, they've done stuff like flip the charts so the the bottom is now the top, add stock tables, or change from good statistics (30 days) to bad (24 hrs).
And for those that are saying there's no blockbusters: Casino Royale, Mr and Mrs Smith, and Layer Cake are little more than a month away, with tons of old but good guaranteed moneymakers like Dances With Wolves, Reservoir Dogs, and the Usual Suspects in the next couple of weeks. Not to mention that Warner and Paramount have got a bunch of goodies that they're sharing.
What exclusives does HD DVD have? Hollywoodland? Woo! That'll burn up the charts. Just like last year when it made less than $15M in theaters at #134.
Ben Drawbaugh @ Jan 30th 2007 1:28PM
Send them to us and we will post them!
We want to cover all the news.
siva @ Jan 30th 2007 11:18AM
I hope Universal comes to BD soon. I just ordered a PS3. I saw one at a friend's home and I was floored. It has more features than other stand alone BD players. I am not too thrilled by HD-DVD.