Topic: New Line Follows Warner Bros. and Goes Blu (Read 782 times)

Xbox-Scene · « **on:** January 05, 2008, 02:32:00 PM »

New Line Follows Warner Bros. and Goes Blu
Posted by XanTium | January 5 15:56 EST | News Category: Xbox360

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Following Warner's lead, sister company New Line has confirmed that it will support Blu-ray Disc high def releases exclusively. New Line has previously delayed their day-and-date new releases on HD DVD due to the format's lack of region coding, effectively making titles such as Shoot 'em Up, Hairspray, and Rush Hour 3 exclusive to Blu-ray.

Full Story: blu-ray.com

DeMoN_DARREN · « **Reply #1 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:05:00 PM »

RIP HD-DVD

steveju · « **Reply #2 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:10:00 PM »

"lack of region coding"

HD-DVD is so inferior

mt247 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 05, 2008, 02:37:00 PM »

Toshiba will have to raise the withe flag during ces......

I'm sorry for that, as i was preferring hd-dvd as my personal choise. Luckily i have not purchased a player right now - and my choise will be blue-ray now. it will be intereseting how ms will react on this news.....

QUOTE(steveju @ Jan 5 2008, 11:10 PM)

"lack of region coding"

HD-DVD is so inferior

yeas - hd-dvd is better - so was betamax

steveju · « **Reply #4 on:** January 05, 2008, 02:41:00 PM »

QUOTE(mt247 @ Jan 5 2008, 10:13 PM)

yeas - hd-dvd is better - so was betamax

I meant that they make "lack of region coding" sound like a bad thing, like a missing feature or something. I bet that none of the consumers would know if it was a good or a bad thing if someone promoted Blu-Ray to them and said HD-DVD lacks region coding.

Norco · « **Reply #5 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:18:00 PM »

Are you kidding me, this isn't news, New Line has been basically BluRay exclusive for awhile now, they just didn't officially say anything. They released this press release simply to try to push their momentum harder, and uninformed consumers will think they have been doing the same thing as Warner Bros. when they haven't.

mace1337 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 05, 2008, 02:45:00 PM »

Well, that does it, HD-DVD is now dead.
Somebody has make a Bluray player for 360 now.

QUOTE(steveju @ Jan 6 2008, 12:17 AM)

I meant that they make "lack of region coding" sound like a bad thing, like a missing feature or something. I bet that none of the consumers would know if it was a good or a bad thing if someone promoted Blu-Ray to them and said HD-DVD lacks region coding.

Yeah, I guess average Joe doesn't know region coding is a bad thing for him.
Average Joe is such an idiot.

0794 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:23:00 PM »

i am more interested in the response from MS and Toshiba...any day now...

all this news is most frustrating to those that have already invested in the HD DVD technology, not that those players and movies won't continue to work and look beautiful, but the media choices may continue to become fewer and fewer if studios keep switching...

also, i find it most interesting that most who bash or fanboy either format (esp on these forums) still don't own either format yet...

disrockerdude · « **Reply #8 on:** January 05, 2008, 02:56:00 PM »

damn.. but hey it was gonna happen anyway. didnt know it was this soon.. RIP HDDVD, congrats blu ray.
it was a good thing i didnt buy an hddvd player or a bluray player. lol i'll stick with my region free dvd player for now.

FCTE · « **Reply #9 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:12:00 PM »

QUOTE(mt247 @ Jan 5 2008, 04:13 PM)

it will be intereseting how ms will react on this news.....

It won't matter to them, Microsoft was nowhere near invested in it like Sony is to Blu-ray.

tummybanana · « **Reply #10 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:53:00 PM »

no blu ray for me...not interested in a half finished format, and certainly not one championed by $ony
ill stick to hd dvd and sd

Artanis · « **Reply #11 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:53:00 PM »

I dont understand how HDDVD players outsell bluray, yet bluray movies outsell HDDVD movies... yet the attach rate for movies to player is higher for HDDVD?

Is sony buying all the bluray movies up?

colt45joe · « **Reply #12 on:** January 05, 2008, 04:00:00 PM »

soo, this means lord of the rings on blu-ray?

HotKnife420 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:30:00 PM »

QUOTE(colt45joe @ Jan 6 2008, 12:00 AM)

soo, this means lord of the rings on blu-ray?

More than likely, as New Line put it out, and I believe Warner owns New Line anyway (IIRC).

The main thing that sucks about all this is that my PS3 is foceably on my SDTV, as my HD is VGA-only (Damn Sony trying to push more TVs). I tried building my own adapter, but then found my monitor doesn't support SoG, so I'm back to square one, I suppose.... LotR on HD would kick ass, tho.

joemm210 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 05, 2008, 03:42:00 PM »

QUOTE(Artanis @ Jan 5 2008, 11:53 PM)

I dont understand how HDDVD players outsell bluray, yet bluray movies outsell HDDVD movies... yet the attach rate for movies to player is higher for HDDVD?

Is sony buying all the bluray movies up?

haha, HDDVD players are outselling blu-ray players not including the ps3 as a blu-ray player so since there must be 3mill ps3s or more in the US now but only 2/5 of ps3 owners buy blu-ray movies thats still like 3 times as many hd dvd players out there but is also the reason why blu-ray attach rate is low.

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