The Format War

[RedIsNotBlue]

At least they made they right move and made the discs look like pizzas.

 

[Downhere]

That cover art seems awesome to me. I will definitely be picking this up, I mean, it's the Turtles! Turtle Power!!!

*is somewhat happy because today is my last final of the semester and I will finally have a week and a half off from school to watch some movies, read some books, and catch up on some nap time*

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Books??? What are those things?

 

[BatMatt]

That cover art seems awesome to me. I will definitely be picking this up, I mean, it's the Turtles! Turtle Power!!!

*is somewhat happy because today is my last final of the semester and I will finally have a week and a half off from school to watch some movies, read some books, and catch up on some nap time*

17 days for me and I'm done with school FOREVER

 

[Downhere]

17 days for me and I'm done with school FOREVER

Don't rub it in... But seriously, Congrats man!

Books??? What are those things?

Dude, they are awesome, it's all these great stories and you make mental images from the text, it's almost like a movie but most of the times better!

 

[SPIDER-MAN-ROX]

http://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Mutan...ef=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1241145575&sr=1-1

You can pre-order the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Blu-Ray Film Collection for $59.49 on Amazon.com

 

[Sam Fisher]

Hopefully they really clean up the transfers. The current DVD transfer sucks.

 

[Downhere]

Well, I want to thank Red for letting everyone know about the contest Project: Blu Forums was having as I won the April contest for Pinocchio. Was told it will ship out on Monday, which is pretty nifty.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Well, I want to thank Red for letting everyone know about the contest Project: Blu Forums was having as I won the April contest for Pinocchio. Was told it will ship out on Monday, which is pretty nifty.

Congrats! You should send it to me as a thank you.

 

[Downhere]

Congrats! You should send it to me as a thank you.

Thanks...and I could send a picture of it to you as a Thank You.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Thanks...and I could send a picture of it to you as a Thank You.

Its the least I could do you guys around here help me out alot especially you and Ian who was so kind enough to actually send me the Matrix movies so its nice that I was able to sort of pay it forward.

 

[Havok83]

Hopefully they really clean up the transfers. The current DVD transfer sucks.

Are they selling them indvidually at all? Im only interested in the first 2 films

 

[imdaly]

Its the least I could do you guys around here help me out alot especially you and Ian who was so kind enough to actually send me the Matrix movies so its nice that I was able to sort of pay it forward.

 

[Timstuff]

2x post

 

[Timstuff]

YIKES! Apparently, the plans to double dip the Lord of the Rings trilogy has pissed off more than a few people. There's a massive down-voting campaign going on at Amazon that has knocked the LOTR Blu-Ray trilogy down to one and a half stars!

http://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-Pi...TF8&coliid=I2VBZXHABCWQSZ&colid=2V4QKGA7VLY0X

I would like to add in my two cents that it DOES very much suck that New Line is resorting to the pre-planned double dipping tactic, even though there is no technological reasoning behind it. In the age of triple-layered 75 GB Blu-Ray discs, is there really any reason we can't have both the theatrical cut and extended cut on one disc per movie with seamless branching? There IS no reason why not, but New Line knows there's more money to be made by selling us the one bare-bones trilogy now for $60, and then getting us to buy a ridiculous $150 set with 30 hours of bonus features right before The Hobbit comes out, and making it so we need both sets to have the whole experience. What a load of BS.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

I am not saying its great for the consumer but WB/New Line isn't doing anything new. This has been going on for years with every studio. The only difference is WB is being upfront and honest about the double dip which I give them credit for. And if people were in fact so pissed they would say so with their wallet but despite *****ing and whining they hand their money over which is why studios continue to use this strategy so hey thats just how it is. Either wait, don't buy, or buy both. Those are the options. Its what studios do with every successful franchise they squeeze every cent they can out of it.

And to my knowledge there isn't 75GB Blu-ray's at least not on the market.

 

[imdaly]

It's Tuesday!

Here comes your Weekly Daly High-Def Release Schedule Update!

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May 12, 2009
3 Mo' Divas (Acorn Media)
Amazing Journeys (Allegro)
The Amazon: River of the Sun (Allegro)
Best of Europe: France (Questar)
Best of Europe: Italy (Questar)
Best of Europe: London and Beyond (Questar)
Black Sheep (Paramount)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - Season One (Paramount)
Dodgeball [Rated Version] (Fox)
Fargo (Fox)
Flowers and Gardens (Allegro)
Force 10 From Navarone (MGM)
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (MGM)
The Grudge [2004] (Sony)
License to Kill (MGM)
Lost Worlds: Life in the Balance (Allegro)
Major League (Paramount)
The Man with the Golden Gun (MGM)
North America's National Parks (Allegro)
Passengers (Sony)
Personal Effects (Universal)
Possession (Image)
Ran (Criterion Collection)
Return to Forever: Returns - Live at Montreux (Eagle Rock)
Scenic National Parks: Alaska and Hawaii (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: Great Train Rides (Questar)
Scenic National Parks: The Best of the National Parks (Questar)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture Trilogy (Paramount)
Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture Collection (Paramount)
Underworld Blu-ray 3-Pack (Sony)
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (Sony)
Wayne's World (Paramount)
Wayne's World 2 (Paramount)
Without a Paddle (Paramount)

May 19, 2009
24: Season 7 (Fox)
Army of Darkness (Universal)
Batman: 20th Anniversary Edition [1989] (Warner)
A Bug's Life (Disney)
Changing Lanes (Paramount)
Circle of Iron (Blue Underground)
Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn/Wrath of the Dragon (FUNimation)
Dr. Doolittle: Million Dollar Mutts (Fox)
Driven to Kill (Fox)
Enemy At The Gates (Paramount)
Lions for Lambs (MGM)
The Machinist (Paramount)
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (Sony)
Paycheck (Paramount)
Spy Game (Universal)
Terminator 2: Judgement Day - Skynet Edition (Lionsgate)
True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO)
Valkyrie (MGM)
WWE: Wrestlemania 25th Anniversary (WWE)

May 26, 2009
America's Greatest Monuments (Smithsonian Channel)
Children of Men (Universal)
Cinderella Man (Universal)
Diana Krall: Live In Rio (Eagle Rock)
Falling Down (Warner)
Field of Dreams (Universal)
Inside Man (Universal)
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (Univeral Music)
My Bloody Valentine [2009] (Lionsgate)
New in Town (Lionsgate)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Warner)
Seabiscuit (Universal)
Shamo (Tai Seng)
Sky Crawlers (Sony)
True Romance (?)

June 2, 2009
Air Force One (Sony)
Anaconda (Sony)
B.B. King - Live at Montreux 1993 (Eagle Rock)
Bruce Almighty (Universal)
Dark Blue (MGM)
Defiance (Paramount)
Direct Contact (First Look)
Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp (Digital Leisure)
Elsewhere (E1)
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete (Sony)
Fletch (Universal)
Glory (Sony)
The Graduate (MGM)
He's Just Not That Into You (Warner)
Navy Seals (Fox)
NFL: Road to The Super Bowl XLIII (Warner)
Out of Time (Fox)
Prison Break: Season Four (Fox)
Revolutionary Road (Paramount)
Road House (Fox)
Rollerball (Fox)
Spring Breakdown (Warner)
To Live and Die in L.A. (MGM)
Walking Tall (Fox)
Weeds: Season Four (Lionsgate)

June 5, 2009
Home (Fox)

June 9, 2009
Baby on Board (E1)
Confessions of a Shopoholic (Disney)
Fatal Attraction (Paramount)
Fired Up! (Sony)
Gran Torino (Warner)
Indecent Proposal (Paramount)
Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (Universal)
The International (Sony)
Predator 2 (Fox)
The Siege (Fox)
Time Warp (Discovery Channel)
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (Warner)

June 16, 2009
Burn Notice: Season Two (Fox)
The Cell 2 (Warner)
The Diary of Anne Frank: 50th Anniversary Edition [1959] (Fox)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Sony)
Fracture (New Line)
Friday the 13th [2009](Paramount)
Friday the 13th Part 2 (Paramount)
Friday the 13th Part 3 (Paramount)
Garfield's Pet Force (Fox)
Generation Kill (HBO)
Ghostbusters (Sony)
The Greatest Game Ever Played (Disney)
John Adams (HBO)
Kickboxer (Lionsgate)
LOST: The Complete First Season (Disney)
LOST: The Complete Second Season (Disney)
Miracle (Disney)
Morning Light (Disney)
Nature's Most Amazing Events (BBC)
Nightwish: End of an Era (Nuclear Blast Americ)
No Way Back (Sony)
Rockers (Mvd Visual)
The Seventh Seal (Criterion Collection)
Slingblade (Disney)
Spaceballs (MGM)
Striking Distance (Sony)
Sword of the Stranger (Bandai)

June 23, 2009
The Code (First Look)
Inkheart (New Line)
Last Year at Marienberg (Criterion Collection)
Mr. Troop Mom (Warner)
Origin: Spirits of the Past (FUNimation)
The Pink Panther 2 (MGM)
Waltz With Bashir (Sony)

June 30, 2009
12 Rounds (Fox)
Do the Right Thing: 20th Anniversary (Universal)
Flawless (Magnolia)
Jonas Brothers: 3-D Concert Experience (Disney)
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Fox)
Ted Nugent: Motor City Mayhem (Eagle Rock)
Tokyo! (Liberation Entertainment)
Transmorphers: Fall of Man (Asylum)
Two Lovers (Magnolia)

July 7, 2009
Grumpy Old Men (Warner)
Knowing (Summit)
Mad Men: Season Two (Lionsgate)
Night Train (E1)
Push (Summit)
Torchwood: The Complete Second Season (BBC)
The Unborn (Universal)
The Universe: The Complete Season Two (A&E)

July 14, 2009
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon / Curse of the Golden Flower / House of the Flying Daggers [Boxed Set] (Sony)
Death Trance (Tokyo Shock)
The Edge of Love (Image)
Explicit Ills (Peace Arch)
For All Mankind (Criterion Collection)
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (Sony)
NBA Champions 2008-2009 (Warner)
Night Train (National Ent Media)
Shark Week: Great Bites Collection (Discovery Channel)
The Towering Inferno (Fox)

July 21, 2009
Echelon Conspiracy (Paramount)
The Great Buck Howard (Magnolia)
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Universal)
Prison Break: The Final Break (FOX)
Pushing Daisies: Season Two (Warner)

July 25, 2009
Green Lantern: First Flight (Warner)

July 28, 2009
Bad Boy Bubby (Blue Underground)
Battlestar Galactica: Season 4.5 (Universal)
Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Series (Universal)
Dollhouse: Season One (Fox)
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (Kino)
Repulsion (Criterion Collection)
Rhino Rescue (National Geographic)
A River Runs Through It (Sony)
Watchmen (Warner)
The Waterboy (Disney)

August 4, 2009
Big Trouble in Little China (Fox)
Jackie Brown (Disney)
Labor Pains (First Look)
The Last Starfighter: 25th Anniversary (Universal)
My Cousin Vinny (Fox)
Pulp Fiction (Disney)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Collector's Edition Boxset (Warner)

August 11, 2009
About Last Night... (Sony)
Alien Trespass (Image)
Blue Thunder (Sony)
Starman (Sony)
St. Elmo's Fire (Sony)

August 18, 2009
Go (Sony)
Sons of Anarchy: Season One (Fox)
Surveillance (Magnolia)

August 25, 2009
Adventureland (?)
The Beast (Timeless Media Group)
Billy Jack (Image)
Children of the Corn (Anchor Bay)
Crash: Season One (Anchor Bay)
Fire and Ice (Blue Underground)
A Haunting - Twilight of Evil (Timeless Media Group)
Man on the Moon - 40th Anniversary Edition (Timeless Media Group)

September 1, 2009
The Girlfriend Experience (Magnolia)
Labyrinth (Sony)
M*A*S*H (Fox)
Crusades: Crescent & The Cross (A&E)

September 8, 2009
The Quick and the Dead (Sony)
Silverado (Sony)
Terry Fator: Live from the Mirage (Image)

September 15, 2009
Easy Rider (Sony)
Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Fifth Season
Punch-Drunk Love (Sony)
Torchwood: Children of Earth (BBC)

September 15, 2009
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (FUNimation)

September 22, 2009
Gojira [Godzilla: King of Monsters] (Classic Media)

October 6, 2009
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition (Disney)

October 13, 2009
The Craft (Sony)
Wolf / Bram Stoker's Dracula / Mary Shelley's Frankenstiein (Sony)

October 20, 2009
Freedomland (Sony)
Snatch (Sony)

October 27, 2009
Expedition: Africa (A&E)

November 17, 2009
Scrubs: The Complete Eighth Season (Disney)

November 24, 2009
Santa Buddies (Disney)

December 8, 2009
Lost: The Complete Fifth Season (Disney)

February 15, 2010
Highlander: The Series - Season One (Legendary Heroes)

 

[Downhere]

I am not saying its great for the consumer but WB/New Line isn't doing anything new. This has been going on for years with every studio. The only difference is WB is being upfront and honest about the double dip which I give them credit for. And if people were in fact so pissed they would say so with their wallet but despite *****ing and whining they hand their money over which is why studios continue to use this strategy so hey thats just how it is. Either wait, don't buy, or buy both. Those are the options. Its what studios do with every successful franchise they squeeze every cent they can out of it.

And to my knowledge there isn't 75GB Blu-ray's at least not on the market.

My thoughts exactly. At the very least, at least WB is telling everyone beforehand that they will release the theatrical cuts this year and then the extended cuts when The Hobbit is released. It's not like they are being all sneaky and saying only one version will be released. Plus, this is a business and should be expected that WB would do a double dip for one of their biggest franchises. It would be completely idiotic for them not to do that considering they could make a good $50 million dollars by releasing the theatrical cuts first, then another $50+ million when the extended cuts are released. So, whatever stupid campaign anyone wants to do will hold no water whatsoever. It's not going to change the release strategy and is just a waste of time, honestly.

And yeah, this magical 75GB Blu-ray is not going to happen for Blu-ray. The standard is 25 and 50GB and will stay that way for the foreseeable future. And no matter what the extended cuts will most likely span two discs considering the studios think consumers see that as having more value.

 

[Sam Fisher]

I had no idea Schwarzenegger played Ghost Rider.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Wow thats the cover for the re-release? Pretty bad. Doesn't look threatening at all it actually looks like the terminator is giggling.

 

[Downhere]

What's with the fire around the skull...lol. Like Sam stated there, it looks like Ghostrider! lol.

 

[Kable24]

Ghost Rider 2099 to be exact

 

[BatMatt]

The cover is definitely weak, but I don't own T1 (or T2 or T3 for that matter) yet so probably the edition I'll end up with. Covers dont exactly make or break a purchase for me so no big deal

 

[Downhere]

I'll definitely be picking it up, but still, that's a bad cover. lol.

 

[BatMatt]

I'll definitely be picking it up, but still, that's a bad cover. lol.

oh yea, quite bad