The General HD Releases Thread!

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 01 Jul 2007, 03:00

Yeah, I'm guessing that it's a mistake then.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 01 Jul 2007, 03:20

Lourdes wrote:There's no video speed up but some Studio Canal HD-DVD's have speeded up audio because the French are lazy sods.

The DVDtimes reviewer (one of the MacKenzie brothers, I think) seems convinced that ALL of the Studio Canal releases thus far have had the wrongly pitched audio.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 01 Jul 2007, 14:23

Considering the price of HD X-Men 3 isn't one I'd upgrade any time soon. It would certainly have to be under a tenner before I was interested in it.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 01 Jul 2007, 17:22

I wasn't very impressed when I saw it at the cinema, but I thought it might be one worth buying for my new HD setup.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 01 Jul 2007, 17:33

You don't have to buy average movies just because they're cheap and/or you don't have to use average movies as demo discs. There's plenty of AAA grade films on both HD optical formats at this point.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 16 Jul 2007, 21:33

some details on Tartan's blu-ray releases here

http://www.zetaminor.com/whatsnew.htm

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 20 Aug 2007, 15:24

Kick ass:-
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65420
UK HD-DVDs and BRDs of Pan's Labyrinth, The Host and Wolf Creek coming from Optimum in Nov.

Top Gun in Oct. for both formats. Barebones, they have no excuse for this.

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65097

Face/Off in Oct. for both formats.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=64762

The Wild Bunch and Wyart Earp for both formats, in Sept.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65354

Carlito's Way for HD-DVD in Oct. FUCK YEAH, give us Scarface next please.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65447

The Replacement Killers Extended for BRD in Sept.
http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=65611

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Aug 2007, 15:41

I'm hearing Face/Off is now a 1 disc release where it was a 2 disc release before, same extras though.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 20 Aug 2007, 16:29

i'll pick up wild bunch,replacement killers,carlito's way,face/off from that list.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Aug 2007, 17:52

Face/Off and Carlito's Way no contest for me.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 20 Aug 2007, 18:03

bradavon wrote:I'm hearing Face/Off is now a 1 disc release where it was a 2 disc release before, same extras though.

You heard wrong

depends on the format

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Aug 2007, 18:12

No I didn't. I've read the Blu-ray gets all the extras (probably because of the increased disk space) and the HD-DVD doesn't but both are 1 disc affairs.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 20 Aug 2007, 18:23

Again thats wrong, HD DVD gets all the extras, but its on 2 HD DVDS and the price has been raised by $5.

Many sites just have it wrong, as usual.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 20 Aug 2007, 18:25

What's your source? It seems to be different depending on what site you look at.

If that's true more reason to pick up the BD. That's stupid though and more proves that HD-DVD is a limited format.

gasteropod · Post by **gasteropod** » 20 Aug 2007, 18:47

So what do you all think about Paramount suddenly deciding to go HD-DVD exclusive? I'm really pissed off, to be honest.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 20 Aug 2007, 18:47

Yup its silly to span it onto 2 dvds AND increase the price, its officla beleve me all the sites will come into line soon

but hey HD DVD has dealt a winning blow to Blu Ray after Todays BOMBSHELL that Paramount/Dreamworks has went HD DVD EXCLUSIVE! to say thats a BIG thing, is an understatement. Gigantic announcement for HD DVD.

It means Transformers for instance is ONLY HD DVD! to say thats a big one for HD DVD is an undertatement

Good for me mind you, Indiana Jones HD DVD

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 21 Aug 2007, 14:44

there won't be a blu-ray release of Face/Off now will there

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 21 Aug 2007, 15:21

saltysam wrote:there won't be a blu-ray release of Face/Off now will there

Nah, I thought you had a HD-DVD player?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 21 Aug 2007, 16:43

EvaUnit02 wrote:
saltysam wrote:there won't be a blu-ray release of Face/Off now will there
Nah, I thought you had a HD-DVD player?

i have both but i had the BD on pre-order for this.will have to change it to the hd-dvd one

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 21 Aug 2007, 17:06

Yup the whole pre order thinsg where it gets tricky, too many rumors going around. but it is maybe likely they have pressed some Blu Rays already, and may give them to pre orders. How that will work is beyond me! either scrap them, or release it. Releasing it to pre orders opnly would make the shoot up in price like gold bars!

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 21 Aug 2007, 19:54

hope my pre-order of face/off comes through then,maybe a BD fanboy will give me big bucks for it

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Aug 2007, 15:19

You could attempt asking the e-tailor you bought it from.

The HD-DVD UK Matrix Trilogy box set is up at DVD Active. No news of the Ultimate set yet:

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releases/ ... ilogy.html

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 22 Aug 2007, 17:37

But who cares about the Ultimate Matrix set?

Just get the cheap 3 films on HD, then buy the standard box set for 15 quid for the rest of the extras and it works out cheaper than the Ultimate set, which is pants anyway as it takes so long to navigate and load extras on HD DVD players, hence shite for me and the pictures pants compared to a standard dvd player as well I find.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 22 Aug 2007, 19:32

romerojpg wrote:But who cares about the Ultimate Matrix set?

I do, since there's the chance that the BRD Ultimate set might have The Animatrix in HD, and not in SD like the HD-DVD version.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 22 Aug 2007, 21:50

EvaUnit02 wrote:
romerojpg wrote:But who cares about the Ultimate Matrix set?
I do, since there's the chance that the BRD Ultimate set might have The Animatrix in HD, and not in SD like the HD-DVD version.

I am sure many people would get the UK set if Animatrix was in HD, I wont count on that yet for either format. But one day, one day