Blu-Ray Vs. HD-DVD - Contagem de Espingardas

[Glorioso]

First multi-region Blu-ray players appearing

Posted Dec 31st 2007 12:23AM by Darren Murph
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
We're not quite ready to believe these things function as advertised just yet, but it seems that multi-region Blu-ray players are beginning to pop up on a few overseas websites. We're seeing a region hacked Samsung BD-P1400 and Sony BDP-S300 / BDP-S500, each of which are reportedly modified to play nice with BD regions A / B as well as DVD regions 1 / 2. Aside from that, each player looks to be unchanged, but you better believe the convenience won't run you cheap. Over at Stegen Electronics, a multi-region BDP-S300 will demand €599 ($878), while the modded BDP-S500 rings up at €899 ($1,318), and until someone bites the bullet and confirms that these things actually do what they claim to, we'd recommend holding off.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/firs ... appearing/

[Skywatcher]

Bem, os filmes do Kevin Smith vão sair em Blu-Ray por isso acho que para mim a escolha está feita.
Já anunciado o Dogma com 100min. de extras

Mas este post não é àcerca disso. Não é só o consumidor que anda confuso com isto. Afinal as lojas também. A Myers na Austrália já pôs os títulos leve 3 pague 2 da promo de Natal Blu-Ray nas estantes... Como aliás, podem verificar nesta foto.

[donatella]

O Dogma com 100 minutos de extras?? Onde???? Conta,please. Tenho de me actualizar,lol.

[Skywatcher]

[offtopic]

Dogma and Gattaca for Blu-ray on March 11th

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced that they will bring 'Dogma' and 'Gattaca' to Blu-ray on March 11th. Both will be present in 2.40 1080p. 'Dogma' will feature cast and crew commentary, technical commentary, 100 min of deleted scenes (with intros), and the "Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash" commercial. 'Gattaca' will feature a blooper real, deleted scenes, Substance test outtake, and numerous featurettes.

Dogma - One of the most talked-about movies of the year is also one of the funniest! In this hilarious comic fantasy from writer/director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) two banished angels (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon) find a loophole that would get them back into Heaven. The only snag? They'll be destroying existence in the process. In an effort to stop them, The overworked Voice of God (Alan Rickman)taps cynical mortal Bethany (Linda Fiorentino) to save the world by preventing the angels from reaching their unholy destination: New Jersey! Throw in two unlikely prophets named Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith), the quick-witted yet little-known thirteenth apostle (Chris Rock) and a sexy, former muse with a case of writer's block (Selma Hayek) and you've got an hysterical and thrilling race against time packed with an all-star cast.


Gattaca - Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin and Jude Law star in this engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. Hawke stars as Vincent, an "In-Valid" who assumes the identity of a member of the genetic elite to pursue his goal of traveling into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, a murder marks Vincent as a suspect. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception, Vincent's dreams steadily unravel.
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[donatella]

E só sai em Blu- Ray o Dogma certo? AH! Não há justiça! Sorry,tinha que desabafar. Mas quando sair avisem.

[Tojal City]

This notion of "letting the consumer decide" is something of a fallacy. It's the retailers who actually decide what products consumers get to chose from, and they're going to pick and stock the products that bring them the most money for the least amount of work. If they don't stock something, you can't buy it. What's more, if they aren't stocking a product, the chances are good that mainstream consumers will never notice that it's missing. Fewer consumers still (outside of early adopters who are heavily invested and pay close attention to such things) will have the motivation to go seek it out online.

Right now, in the wake of the Christmas shopping season, all of the signs (from industry insider rumblings to how high-definition hardware and software are being pushed in stores) tell me that the major retailers will call the ball on this format war very soon, and those signs are all pointing in favor.

For high-definition media to thrive, anyone with experience in the retail industry knows that one of these formats must live and one must die, and that's going to happen sooner rather than later, no matter what Toshiba or Sony or Microsoft or the Blu-ray Disc Association or the HD-DVD Promotions Group want. If one of these formats isn't ultimately chosen by the studios and manufacturers, then sooner or later the big box stores will decide that neither of them is worth the effort, and that won't be good for anyone - not the studios, not the retailers and especially not the consumer.

[jomelo]

This notion of "letting the consumer decide" is something of a fallacy. It's the retailers who actually decide what products consumers get to chose from, and they're going to pick and stock the products that bring them the most money for the least amount of work. If they don't stock something, you can't buy it. What's more, if they aren't stocking a product, the chances are good that mainstream consumers will never notice that it's missing. Fewer consumers still (outside of early adopters who are heavily invested and pay close attention to such things) will have the motivation to go seek it out online.

Right now, in the wake of the Christmas shopping season, all of the signs (from industry insider rumblings to how high-definition hardware and software are being pushed in stores) tell me that the major retailers will call the ball on this format war very soon, and those signs are all pointing in favor.

For high-definition media to thrive, anyone with experience in the retail industry knows that one of these formats must live and one must die, and that's going to happen sooner rather than later, no matter what Toshiba or Sony or Microsoft or the Blu-ray Disc Association or the HD-DVD Promotions Group want. If one of these formats isn't ultimately chosen by the studios and manufacturers, then sooner or later the big box stores will decide that neither of them is worth the effort, and that won't be good for anyone - not the studios, not the retailers and especially not the consumer.

E qual é que é o estúdio que vai à frente?

[Tojal City]

Escondi de propósito para não criar grandes confusões, mas neste momento não é difícil de adivinhar.

[Joe-Fagundes]

Penso que seja BR, mas sendo o Tojal um defensor dos Vermelhos e o smiley dos maus, nunca se sabe.

[Tojal City]

O único vermelho que defendo é o Benfica, de restou sou daquele que vencer, Roxo.

[jomelo]

OK. Já percebi que é o Blu-Ray que está à frente. Por acaso ainda não tinha pensado na força que os retalhistas têm. Se o Wal-mart deixar de vender um dos formatos esse formato está praticamente condenado..... Vamos ver o que é que o futuro reserva. A mim tanto faz qual deles ganha. Ainda não tenho equipamento nem discos de nenhum dos lados, portanto não me aquece nem arrefece.

[Joe-Fagundes]

Not sure if we're ever going to catch up, but this weeks edition of Home Media Magazine includes the Nielsen VideoScan results from the week ending December 23rd. And just like the week before -- and the week after -- Blu-ray has the majority with a 61:39 (1.56:1) share. For the second week in the row, the latest Bourne movie was able to hold off Blu-ray's best; The Simpson Movie. Blu's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was once again able to out pace red's, but not by much. For the first time since we can remember HD DVD has four titles in the top ten -- up from three -- with Transformers holding on to a top ten spot after two months of being released. While we hope that HMM skips a week in it's next issue, either way we'd expect much of the same -- yeah, real obvious when we already know the overall numbers -- with the lackluster titles released on both sides. We are interested to see how Blu-ray's first profile 1.1 titles sell, but unless the BDA tells us at CES, who knows when we will see those numbers.

[Tojal City]

Joe acho que daqui as umas semanas a diferença ainda vai ser maior. Embora a Warner continue a lançar títulos em HD-DVD até Maio, poucos os comprarão. Em Junho os nº serão 80:20 e no final do ano 90:10.
Pela primeira vez vejo pessoas que eram "ferrenhas" pelo HD-DVD a declarar a derrota, muita coisa vai mudar, para o bem ou para o mal (com a Sony e amigos o mau também pode acontecer).

[Glorioso]

Joe acho que daqui as umas semanas a diferença ainda vai ser maior. Embora a Warner continue a lançar títulos em HD-DVD até Maio, poucos os comprarão. Em Junho os nº serão 80:20 e no final do ano 90:10.
Pela primeira vez vejo pessoas que eram "ferrenhas" pelo HD-DVD a declarar a derrota, muita coisa vai mudar, para o bem ou para o mal (com a Sony e amigos o mau também pode acontecer).

Desde que o Transformers e o Matrix entre outros saia em BR....

[Tojal City]

Alguns dos títulos em falta da Warner em Blue-Ray eram o Matrix, o Batman Begins e o V for Vendeta, devido ao facto do profile 1.1 ainda não estar implementado nos leitores. Mas agora como a Ps3 e todos os novos leitores que vão ser anunciados nos CES (que serão em nº razoável) já estarem prontos para isto, estes filmes serão lançados de certeza brevemente. Quando é fácil? Este ano vai sair um Batman e um filme dos irmãos Wachowski (Speed Racer), acho que não é preciso ter um IQ de 180 para perceber a data dos filmes.

Quanto aos Transformers e a Paramount, bem podem sempre rescindir o contracto antes do tempo devolver parte do dinheiro