Religulous As of right now

Religulous

As of right now, based on what is released for both formats, there isnt much that I would want to buy. There are 4 or 5 HD-DVD titles I would purchase, and 2 Blu-Ray titles. I see what is coming, and am looking forward to the HD-DVD releases LOTR and Matrix are high on my list. But here is the thing. There are religulous a few titles I wouldnt mind RENTING. Pretty much the day that I can walk into my Blockbuster and rent HD-DVD titles will be the day that I purchase. But it will be weighted against 2nd gen hardware or hardware from other manufactures, depending on release dates of that. Last thing I want to do is purchase a first gen unit which gets replaced 2 months after my purchase. Weve got some breaking high-def format news to report this afternoon. Warner Bros has just officially announced their first Blu-ray Disc releases. Training Day, Good Night, and Good Luck, Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang and Rumor Has It will all street on 8/ All of these titles are already available on HD-DVD except Good Night, and Good Luck but we expect that to change soon, so this will be the first really good opportunity to directly compare the two formats. Training Day and Good Night, and Good Luck will carry an SRP of The other two titles will sell for SRP Theres no word yet on the extras to be included, but we expect more on that shortly. Warner also says that theyll be announcing additional waves of Blu-ray Disc titles soon. Yeah, baby, but Batman Begins and the Matrix movies are from Warners, and theyve announced theyre releasing on both formats. New Line is a unit of Time Warner, but I think theyre still in the HD DVD camp, so LOTR will be HD DVD exclusively, until and unless the format starts to falter. The one thing we can count on is that nobody yet has ever overestimated the avarice of Hollywood. Some of these studios might religulous loudly that theyre firmly behind one format or the other, but as sure as the sun will come up tomorrow, they will crumble at the first sign that theyre losing a few dollars by not supporting the other. Just wanted to point out that Lord of the Rings will NOT be HD DVD exlusive as New Line has pledged Blu-ray support. In fact, it is right on their official home Lions Gate, MGM, Paramount, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Television, including Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Hollywood Pictures Home Video, Touchstone Home Entertainment, Miramax Home Entertainment, Dimension Home Video and Disney DVD Warner Bros. including New Line Cinema and HBO Video have publicly announced their support for the Blu-ray Disc format. Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros. Studios including New Line Cinema So given the huge studio support advantage, I think Blu-ray movies will be coming in droves in a few months. Sony to lift capacity to make Blu-ray movie, video game discs to 10 million a month XFN-ASIA Sony Corp intends to raise its global capacity to produce Blue-ray movie and video game discs to 10 mln copies per month by the end of this year, the company said. Unit Sony Music Manufacturing, based near Nagoya, will boost its capacity to 5 mln per month in the fall here from 300, 000 at present, a Sony statements says.