HD DVD and Blu-ray releases on August 7th, 2007

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Segarsj @ Aug 6th 2007 1:17PM

I totally agree about the foreign releases.

Ben, at the very least, would it be too much to ask for you to keep a separate tally for international releases? I personally don't think so. The only reasonable excuse you can possibly come up with is that it would take too much time, but if you simply took a glance at this site (http://hddvdformat.blogspot.com) you would certainly have your work cut out for you.

So why not? It would be a great help to those HD DVD users out there who are oblivious to the fact that they can import a number of films (The Prestige, T2, Pan's Labyrinth, Total Recall, Band of Brothers, and many more) from the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Japan.

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KC @ Aug 6th 2007 1:38PM

Because HD-DVDs are already more expensive then Blu-Ray disks because HD-DVD forces you to buy the regular DVD along with the HD-DVD in their combo format that almost every HD-DVD is released in exclusively.

HD-DVD - cheaper players
Blu-Ray - cheaper disks

Why would I want to pay an even bigger premium to import a movie over the already exaggerated disk prices of HD-DVD when I can probably just buy it on Blu-Ray anyway and pay allot less for the movie.

Toshiba seems to be taking the 'razor + Blades' approach with HD-DVD. Buy this cheap player that sounds like a really good deal, but we'll get you later when you want to buy content.

Blu-Ray players are not as cheap - but at least the companies making them are making a profit off them - and the disks are only a couple bucks more or in many cases now exactly the same price as the vanilla DVD version for new releases.

There is good points and bad point no matter what format you support. I just want one to win so that all movies are released in HD and prices come down on everything because every electronics manufacturer and every movie studio out there produces for the one winning HD disk format.

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