http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/ Engadget HD Comments for HD DVD and Blu-ray NOT released on March 6th, 2007 http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
-Max]]>Mar 5th 2007 3:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
The movie probably won't look great anyway. It was really grainy and soft even at the theatre. I don't know if it was intentionally shot to look cheap, but it was a low budget movie. Still the best thing to come out last year.

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Are you that invested in HD-DVD that you have to rant about the "end" of blu-ray?

Take a chill pill.]]>Mar 5th 2007 4:17PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
How can you use the above news to make an opiinon like that!?

Neither format release anything for a week and that's what you get out of it!?

Do you realize that Blu-Ray JUST in the coming months has:
Casino Royale
Pursuit of Happyness
Happy Feet
Spider-Man 1 and 2
Pirates of the Carribean

And HD-DVD has what coming out in the next months? Uhm, uh, duh, only a handful of so-so titles that will also be available for Blu-ray and certainly no big box office titles like to above.

We're all entitled our opinions Kris, but yours is baseless.
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if you want to spur adoption of a new (HD) format, then the way to sell it is give it content EARLY, not milk consumers 3 and 4 times for the same content.

If Sony wanted to sell me a bluray device, all they would have to do is release Casino Royale 1 or 2 months on blu-ray before they release it on regular DVD.]]>Mar 5th 2007 4:34PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Do you have a link to the article about MGM/Fox you alluded to?]]>Mar 5th 2007 4:50PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/No US sites?
That sites times out when I try it.]]>Mar 5th 2007 5:10PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 5th 2007 5:10PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 5th 2007 5:31PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 6th 2007 2:15AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
Check out www.dvdempire.com for future releases on both formats, and sales comparisons to date between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.]]>Mar 5th 2007 5:46PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 5th 2007 6:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/It is:
DIE HD DVD DIE!!!
Actually ;)

No, seriously see here:
http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/]]>Mar 6th 2007 1:08AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 5th 2007 7:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 6th 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 5th 2007 8:47PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 6th 2007 3:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 5th 2007 9:04PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/You do realize Sony that is releasing a $599 player this summer. The technologies ARE very similar, but what sets apart Blu-ray is its capacity and content support. Price is the only thing HD DVD has to its advantage, but that will be changing soon.]]>Mar 6th 2007 8:24AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
I work for 2shiba and work part time for Macro Soft. Kris is right, a lot of companies are jumping ship to HD DVD. Look for a $299 Sony HD DVD player in time for Christmas.]]>Mar 5th 2007 8:46PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
How is price changing soon? Sony is not yet selling a player for 600 or less and HDDVD players are under 400.

Your facts are wrong fanboy. Price and support are the deciding factors and right now each camp holds one card. That's not changing this year unless all of the studio's jump to HDDVD. See Sony's own press release/clarification of cheap brd players: "won't happen this year."]]>Mar 6th 2007 9:27AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
And the real problem may be that they utterly screwed the pooch hardware-wise and there is no way to secure the keys. DOo't know what happens if that's the case.
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http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-BD-P1000-Blu-Ray-Disc-Player/dp/B000F99FDE/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/002-7873273-4775261?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1173159178&sr=1-2]]>Mar 6th 2007 12:41AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 6th 2007 3:07AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=63931 . don't jump on me anyone I support both format.]]>Mar 6th 2007 3:16AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
1) No region coding: I can buy a movie from England, Japan, Dollywood, whatever, and it'll play in my player no questions asked. Blu-Ray doesn't allow that.
1a) Lots of "Blu-Ray exclusive" titles are being released overseas so for an extra $10 I can import them. That's a lot of movies to make up for the $500-$1000 cost of a BD player.
2) Less copy protection: Blu-Ray has "BD+" which is an extra layer on top of AACS. That will make it more difficult to copy my own movies (to a media server, for example). It's anti-consumer so I would prefer to support HD-DVD since it doesn't have that extra layer.
3) Cheaper cost: Sony claims that they're coming out with cheap players but they also said that the PS3 was going to be released at the same time as the Xbox360 in order to convince people to wait. They also claimed that the war was over at CES due to the release schedule of movies, which has mysteriously dried up now. Toshiba has been straight forward with me and haven't told me any lies (that I'm aware of anyway) compared to BD.
4) iHD (or HDi, or whatever they're calling it nowadays): BD's Java stuff isn't working whereas iHD is and it's pretty cool (and will only get better).

More features, less copy protection and lower cost? Why is this "war" even going on?]]>Mar 6th 2007 6:59AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/these are simple facts

HDDVD has NOTHING for a entire month (February 27 2007- March 27, 2007) not even one title so it will be nothing vs March 13, 2007

Casino Royale (Sony)
Hoosiers (MGM)
Layer Cake (Sony)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Fox)

March 20, 2007

Big Fish (Sony)
Chicken Little (Buena Vista)
Eragon (Fox)
Finding Neverland (Buena Vista)
The Holiday (2006) (Sony)
Rocky Balboa (Sony)

http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html

they try making up crap about companies leaving Blu ray for HDDVD which is total BS its the other way around.

Blu ray movies are NOT higher priced than HDDVD. in fact almost all multi platform movies are more expensive on hddvd
eg
HDDVD The Departed - Price: $27.95
Bluray The Departed - Price: $23.95

http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/

and even it it was more expensive any jackass would pay extra for a Finger print & scratch resistant Blu ray disk Disk.

and by the time they put out the $299 Blu ray player HDDVD's only advantage (player $$) will be over.


]]>Mar 6th 2007 9:51AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
Let me show you how you're a freak'n moron:

"HDDVD has NOTHING for a entire month (February 27 2007- March 27, 2007) not even one title so it will be nothing vs March 13, 2007"

How about this one:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000MM1GJA/ref=nosim/tonyswebsit02-20
or this:
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/getaway1972.html
or this:
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/bullitt.html

"Blu ray movies are NOT higher priced than HDDVD. in fact almost all multi platform movies are more expensive on hddvd"

Well, that HD-DVD that you claim wasn't released is cheaper on HD-DVD than on BD. Yes, the combo disks cost a few bucks more -- but guess what? You GET more too -- you can play the disk on your HD-DVD player and also on ANY regular DVD player. If you want to do that with BD, you have to buy a second disk. I'm not arguing whether putting both a regular DVD and HD version on the same disk is a good idea or not, but you ARE getting more so you pay a few bucks. You can't buy the Departed on regular DVD for $4.

Support what you want, but stop insulting people by saying that they're making crap up when, in fact, you're the one making crap up.]]>Mar 6th 2007 10:25AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/these are simple facts

HDDVD has NOTHING for a entire month (February 27 2007- March 27, 2007) not even one title so it will be nothing vs March 13, 2007

Casino Royale (Sony)
Hoosiers (MGM)
Layer Cake (Sony)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Fox)

March 20, 2007

Big Fish (Sony)
Chicken Little (Buena Vista)
Eragon (Fox)
Finding Neverland (Buena Vista)
The Holiday (2006) (Sony)
Rocky Balboa (Sony)

http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/releasedates.html

they try making up crap about companies leaving Blu ray for HDDVD which is total BS its the other way around.

Blu ray movies are NOT higher priced than HDDVD. in fact almost all multi platform movies are more expensive on hddvd
eg
HDDVD The Departed - Price: $27.95
Bluray The Departed - Price: $23.95

http://www.eproductwars.com/dvd/

and even it it was more expensive any jackass would pay extra for a Finger print & scratch resistant Blu ray disk Disk.

and by the time they put out the $299 Blu ray player HDDVD's only advantage (player $$) will be over.


]]>Mar 6th 2007 9:57AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 6th 2007 10:03AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Are you retarded

Nine Inch Nails Live
The Getaway (1972)
Bullitt

those movies are out ALREADY for HDDVD since February 27

i said NO movies for a month for hddvd

after February 27, 2007 will have NOTHING until March 27,2007 DO....YOU.....UNDERSTAND....NOW

Who the **** is going to buy a HDDVD to play on a normal dvd player and those 2 sided disks are crap it is so dam easy to damage can you say gimmick.

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And I gotta say, movies like Spiderman 1 and 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean 1 & 2 are killer apps, essentially. Between those and the PS3, HD-DVD will need a miracle to survive, let alone win (LotR exclusive type miracle).]]>Mar 6th 2007 4:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64064 ). So I got a samsung player (£999 or $1990) sitting at home for almost nothing. BDA as to do something about europe not enough titles. HDDVD you free to buy from anywhere. GUY YOU HAVE TO REALISE THAT THE WAR ISN'T ONLY HAPPENING IN THE US. But I hope it ends soon whoever the winner is.]]>Mar 6th 2007 4:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/The $499 ps3 has HDMI it can do everything that the $599 version can do ,the main difference is built in SD card reader,wireless adapter and the smaller hard drive but those can be upgraded if necessary,the $599 version is a waste to some people who dont have wireless a router

@Xyzzy
is that your best attempt ile break it down

95% of ppl don't watch movies in cars or planes
95% of them are not using HD formats
95% of them don't know about HDDVD/DVD uses
99% of the time they dont use the portable players
90% of them really don't even care
99% of them will wait to see it in HD
90% of them are children (HDDVD has nothing to offer children now)

etc,etc,etc

so your idea of this "advantage"having uses of things you can think of rather than it what will be put to use is 99% WRONG

use your dusty brain and think, will ppl really
pay for HD to get standard def when they are risking to chose to buy into hd formats just for HD content. ]]>Mar 6th 2007 6:16PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Do you even read what you are writing, you talking like a sunday morning saleman, wake up man universal is a big company if they do it it's for a reason, some people still own dvd players but may upgrade to HDdvd players, so when you got a disc ready for it you just pop it in, instead of having to buy the same movie again. Are you working for any of the companies involved in the war, I bet not so shut up with your 99.99999999% bullshit. Now get mad fanboy I won't bother reply you no more and yeah TALK TO THE HAND. I'm out.]]>Mar 6th 2007 7:16PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/simple fact most people don't give a shit about it HDDVD/DVD,if they did HDDVD would not be outsold so shamefully with its much longer run.

We may see a 1-4 ratio by the end of march since HDDVD has NO releases for an entire month lol.
in addition Bul ray has not even launched its heavy hitters yet >.<

as for the mad part >_< i would think its the other way around

good luck investing in your dead format :P ]]>Mar 7th 2007 6:36AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 7th 2007 9:11PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
For me, HD-DVD is similar to a Plasma TV, cheaper to produce like the HD-DVD backers claimed.
On the other hand, Bluray is similar to a LCD TV; slightly more expensive to manufacture.

When the dust settled, LCD TVs are winning, despite the fact that the cost of production is higher than the rest. Having said so, the price of a LCD TV is dropping dramatically over the last few years and expect to see the same thing for the Bluray player.

Samsung just made a stupid mistake by making a HD-DVD player, just like they are still making plasma TVs, a dead technology.

Also, like most people I could not find a HD-DVD movie that is significantly cheaper than a Bluray movie.

Don't talk about the Hollywood movies. Hey, this is America and if you record your favorite football games like I do, you can record the entire game onto one single disc, in HD and only with a Bluray disc. Forget about that new codec as you will ALWAYS get a better picture with less compression with a Bluray disc.

For your computer at home you decide whether you want a disc burner that can store 67% more data or 67% less data. (15GB vs 25GB)

Let's GET REAL and there is nothing that HD-DVD can compare with the Bluray format.
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Who cares who wins when you have unencrypted files. I like HD-DVD now because I'm only out $167 for the hardware and I'm watching hi def movies NOW. Try that with Blu Ray. When Blu players hit the sub $200-300 barrier, I'm all in. Until then I think the cracked DRM (for both formats) will only favor HD-DVD hardware adoption since the opportunity cost is way way way lower than Blu Ray.]]>Mar 7th 2007 11:56PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 13th 2007 1:02AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 8th 2007 6:12PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
There are HD-DvD players for a bit less, but the price is coming down. There really isn't much of a player price arguement now, and I'm sure within a year it will be a Non-issue.

On Forums I see alot of people arguing that they have to pay 600.00 for a Blu-ray player an maybe even don't want a video game player with it(PS3), but Ironically, these same people talk about how it's so cheap for them to get into HD-DvD because they already own an XBox360.

This "War" won't be decided by game players that watch movies, and at this moment, the Blu-ray does look like the winner. Don't forget, Sony IS a picture studio, even if another studio or 2 doesn't release something in a given month, soon if they want, they'll just schedule their releases around the holes in the release schedule...

...or they won't because they don't have to care that much, as they are winning now and likely to keep winning.]]>Mar 8th 2007 9:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Mar 9th 2007 7:37AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/Sony does not want to be part of this comparison. As many Blu-ray customers are actually PS3 owners this will be inevitable and probably the reason why Sony doesn't want to push the units. ]]>Mar 10th 2007 3:30PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/03/05/hd-dvd-and-blu-ray-not-releases-on-march-6th-2007/
2) Less copy protection: Blu-Ray has "BD+" which is an extra layer on top of AACS. That will make it more difficult to copy my own movies (to a media server, for example). It's anti-consumer so I would prefer to support HD-DVD since it doesn't have that extra layer.

actually, i think you'll find that sony OR blu-ray are NOT being anti-consumer, they're being anti-piracy. think about this for a minute: blu ray is virtually scratch and smudge resistance - so why the NEED for a backup? if you had a muliti-billion dollar corporation, you wouldnt want people copying something youve been researching for god knows how long, would you?]]>Apr 17th 2007 12:55PM