Looks like the Blu-ray release of Iron Man may be postponed
Bad news Blu-ray fans -- it appears Paramount hasn't gotten past all its production problems and it just might affect the Blu-ray release of Iron Man. Easily one of the biggest movies of the year, Iron Man was expected to really move some volume on Blu when it was set to release this Tuesday on September 30th, but after some rumors that review copies weren't working in some players, it was expected that Paramount would issue a full recall. At this point the studio is doing everything it can to deliver enough replacement discs to retailers, but if it doesn't happen in time, then we'll all have to wait another week until October 7th to take in the latest sci-fi action flick.Update: Paramount rang to say that the release is still on track for a September 30th release. Phew!
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Chris @ Sep 24th 2008 6:58PM
at Costco wholesale we had to return all of our blu-ray copies back to the manufacture
TJ @ Sep 24th 2008 7:07PM
digitalbits is reporting the BD will not be delayed. Par is working around the clock to press corrected discs. Nevertheless, I'm glad I preordered mine...
Chris2 @ Sep 24th 2008 7:08PM
I heard that Robert Downey Jr. accidentally dropped an ounce of cocaine and a dirty syringe in one of the boxes.
DEEZNUTZ @ Sep 24th 2008 8:30PM
Fail... for trying too hard. Not an epic fail, but fail nonetheless.
SimbaDogg @ Sep 24th 2008 11:47PM
fail? no...i say win for bringing up something that most people are too young to even remember. anyways, i'm happy for the guy, from BIG TIME repeat coke-head "my downey jr, i'm going to give you one last chance..." to iron-man. that's a hell of a turnaround. oh by the way, after that one last chance for people that dont remember...he blew it.
mntwister @ Sep 26th 2008 11:57AM
Everyone can get into a drug problem, even movie stars, so why people are so much harder on the stars is beyond me. The good part of this is that he conquered the problem and came back with a vengeance, a rarity in Hollywood...look at Winona Ryder...she went in for therapy for her problem but remained off the Hollywood A list up to this day because of one arrest. Very unfair if you ask me. Only in Hollywood are things not forgiven and people allowed to redeem themselves (and with some of the very unforgiving public). Funny thing.... I find most people who talk about these people as if they were so "bad" must think they lead perfect lives to come down on others when they hit a low and never let them live down their mistakes.
shawnmos @ Sep 24th 2008 7:50PM
Does Paramount even bother testing their discs??? All of the last several Paramount releases crash my Blu-ray player when I try to access the menus. Not I gotta wait for another firmware update to fix problems that could have easily been avoided. Looks like it's the same shit, but now with problems in even more players so they were forced to recall.
MasterCKO @ Sep 24th 2008 8:07PM
SHITE. I was really set to get this BD (on release day, no less, this is a big step for me). I seriously hope they get things worked out and release it on time.
The Aggie CEO @ Sep 24th 2008 9:03PM
I pre-ordered with Amazon so I assume they will ship it as soon as they get it......still sucks tho......
Gus @ Sep 24th 2008 9:06PM
Tell me again why blu ray is a better product then HD DVD was.
DEEZNUTZ @ Sep 24th 2008 9:18PM
Majority of studio support out of the gate
More titles
Higher capacity
should I keep going? Dude, just let it die.
Andy @ Sep 24th 2008 9:21PM
This has nothing to do with bu-ray and everything to do with paramount messing up.
I can't believe you're still desperately trying to back HD DVD. It's dead. Get over it.
Orlando Ayala @ Sep 24th 2008 9:35PM
Dude, you're like you're comments don't help, and if they don't help they just waste space. Get over it and move on. It is what it is.
Gus @ Sep 24th 2008 9:36PM
I'm not hanging on to HD DVD, it's as dead and cold as charity, but it frustrates me to see this, IMO, inferior product floundering because the prime marketer has botched this product from day 1
Tom @ Sep 24th 2008 9:41PM
It's not canceled.
WebDev511 @ Sep 24th 2008 10:10PM
Because BD-Java doesn't constrain you like HDi. You can do anything you want, even introduce buggy code that could induce you to recall an entire production run and pray that there's enough available replication capacity for you to make your street date.
squiggleslash @ Sep 25th 2008 9:29AM
I'd hardly describe HDi as "constrained". Just because ECMAScript is a scripting language doesn't mean it's less powerful than Java. Slower perhaps, but the object library is pretty much as complete as it needs to be.
WebDev511 @ Sep 24th 2008 9:08PM
What are the odds that we'll ever hear what the real problem was with these discs?
Shelbz @ Sep 24th 2008 9:54PM
My 1080p Blu-Ray rip has been working fine on my AppleTV for quite some time fuck Blu-Ray.
britboyj @ Sep 24th 2008 10:28PM
First to tell me what doesn't make sense about Shelbz statement...
JimC @ Sep 24th 2008 11:33PM
britboyj,
I think what Shelbz is trying to say is "FBI, come investigate me for pirating". Can't tell, my disgruntled HDDVD translation is a bit rusty since HDDVD went teats up, but yeah, I think that is about correct...
Wes @ Sep 26th 2008 10:34AM
I thought AppleTV was only capable of decoding 720p content and 1080p content was a bit straining for it? Or does it do 1080p just lower bit rate 1080p? I'm confused...
EricBrady @ Sep 25th 2008 3:12AM
Also a 1080p rip is nothing quality wise compared to 1080p from the disc, simple compression. Like why a 6 megapixel camera phone looks like shit compared to a 6 megapixel DSLR
Wes @ Sep 26th 2008 10:49AM
EricBradly,
That's a poor example. The reason a cellphone camera's picture quality is so bad compared to a Digital SLR camera is because the apperature size is larger, better lenses and sensor size is quite often about 1" versus a 2.5" ccd. The 2.5" ccd can receive more light and devide it more accurately into pixels. Usually the larger sensor size, the better potential depth of field, clarity and resolution.
The reason the cellphone camera looks so bad is the camera itself. It doesn't have to do with compression of the image unless you've manually set your 6mp cellphone camera to take pictures at '200kb' or something like that.
A better comparison would be Raw on DSLRs versus JPEG on DSLRS with the same lenses/body. Raws should look a bit better and allow for more post-shot processing but, take more size. Some would argue though that they can't tell the different between a raw/jpeg. Let alone an encoded 1.4gb xvid versus a dvd or a 1080p rip versus the original as long as the bit-rate is high enough the encode can be loseless with the right codecs.
EricBrady @ Sep 26th 2008 2:23PM
I'm aware Wes, just didn't think a simile needed a three paragraph explanation.
Brendan @ Sep 24th 2008 10:32PM
http://digitalbits.com/#iron2
according to Digital Bits, everything is back on track and Iron Man will be on BD on tuesday with the DVD release.
JBDragon @ Sep 24th 2008 10:46PM
Yes, I could still care less about Blu-Ray at this time. Maybe in a couple years when this whole profile garbage is done and over with and the problems are worked out, things will be better and I may look at the format again, but for now, I have enough HD options, and I'll just continue to buy DVD's unless I find a good enough reason to buy a PS3, but so far, nope. Nothing of interest I can't get on the 360 anyway. So far it's not looking good, but maybe I can just hold off and get the PS4 instead and just call the PS3 a bust for me. Right now I really don't care one way or the other. At this time, Blu-ray still has it's problems and high prices in hardware and software, and it's not the ONLY solution for HD content out there. So why rush to the format? I have no problem waiting. Let these things work themselves out.
JimC @ Sep 24th 2008 11:34PM
For all intents and purposes, the "Profile Thing" is done with. I've tried Profile 2.0, not exactly a must have feature, so find you a top notch 1.1 player and be happy...trust me, you're not missing anything...
Alan @ Sep 24th 2008 11:29PM
a.b.hdtv.x264
lucyfan62 @ Sep 24th 2008 11:32PM
It was already confirmed by Paramount YESTERDAY that the Blu-rays would be defect free and in stores on the release date!
Jeff N. @ Sep 25th 2008 2:29AM
That's great news, thanks for the update Lucyfan62.
Ron @ Sep 25th 2008 7:58AM
Thanks Brendan!
jdslater @ Sep 25th 2008 8:28PM
Some friends here in the UK who got the disc early are reporting some scenes are missing. The scene where Downey is in the hummer saying "no gang signs" seems to be missing for some reason.
mntwister @ Sep 26th 2008 12:35PM
Gus, were you aware of the many titles on hd-dvd that got delayed or had player problems? Does that make Blu-ray inferior? Check the past posts at high def digest during the hd-dvd period and you will find pressing problems there too. In the first few years of DVD there were also discs that would not play in certain players. I owned the first Toshiba dvd player and had problems with many titles at the start including Twister and others.