The High-Def Thread, Now With 95% Less HD DVD

Should call this thread The Blu-Ray Shack or something.

 

I was thinking the High-Def thread (with less HD DVD!) just to rub it in to Ian. Oh well

 

no I'd say this is fine

 

Anything worth getting this month or does all the good stuff start coming out next month?

 

haha, finally, a title we can work with!

 

i really want punisher war zone, how's the pq?

 

the PQ is pretty good, the movie is intentionally grainy so you have to factor that. The sound is fantastic though

 

i remember seeing it at the movies, i liked the darkness in it. and there's a green, yellowy tint right? like in the ennis comics?

 

It's good to see someone else liked that movie. It wasn't the greatest but I think they got the character right .

 

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

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August 11, 2009
17 Again (Warner)
About Last Night... (Sony)
Alien Trespass (Image)
Blue Thunder (Sony)
Bring It On: Fight to the Finish (Universal)
Chaos (Lionsgate)
The Class (Sony)
Cutthroat Island (Lionsgate)
Donkey X (Phase 4 Films)
Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid - Complete Collection (FUNimation)
I Love You, Man (Dreamworks)
National Geographic: Sea Monsters 3-4 (National Geographic)
The Ninth Gate (Lionsgate)
Replicant (Lionsgate)
See No Evil (Lionsgate)
Starman (Sony)
State of Play (Universal)
St. Elmo's Fire (Sony)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Collector's Edition Boxset (Warner)

August 18, 2009
Dexter: The Complete Third Season (Paramount)
Dexter: Seasons 1-3 (Paramount)
Go (Sony)
Hannah Montana: The Movie (Disney)
Kagemusha (Criterion Collection)
The Last House on the Left [2009] (Universal)
Playtime (Criterion Collection)
Sons of Anarchy: Season One (Fox)
Surveillance (Magnolia)
Tyson (Sony)

August 25, 2009
Adventureland (Disney)
The Beast (Timeless Media Group)
Billy Jack (Image)
Children of the Corn (Anchor Bay)
Devil May Cry: The Complete Series (FUNimation)
Duplicity (Universal)
Fighting (Universal)
Fire and Ice (Blue Underground)
The Informers (Sony)
Jason Aldean: Wide Open Live and More (Eagle Rock)
Lie to Me: Season One (Fox)
A Haunting - Twilight of Evil (Timeless Media Group)
Man on the Moon - 40th Anniversary Edition (Timeless Media Group)
Rudo y Cursi (Sony)
Screwballs (Severin)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (Sony)
Smallville: The Complete Eighth Season (Warner)

September 1, 2009
Braveheart (Paramount)
The Crusades: Crescent & the Cross (A&E)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The Ninth Season (Paramount)
Earth (Disney)
Escaflowne: The Movie (Bandai)
The Girl Next Door (Fox)
Gladiator (Paramount)
Heroes: Season Three (Universal)
High Crimes (Fox)
M*A*S*H (Fox)
Monster (First Look)
Over British Columbia (Topics)
Sugar (Sony)
Supernatural: The Complete Fourth Season (Warner)

September 8, 2009
Catwoman (Warner)
Crank 2: High Voltage (Lionsgate)
Creepshow(Warner)
Dance Flick (Paramount)
Dead Calm (Warner)
The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen (Warner)
Freddy vs. Jason (New Line)
Friday (Warner)
Fringe: The Complete First Season (Warner)
Menace II Society (Warner)
The New World: Extended Cut (New Line)
The Office: Season Five (Universal)
Over the Top (Warner)
The Postman (Warner)
The Quick and the Dead (Sony)
Requiem for a Dream (Lionsgate)
Set It Off (Warner)
Silverado (Sony)
Snakes On a Plane (New Line)
Sphere (Warner)
Terry Fator: Live from the Mirage (Image)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre [2003] (New Line)

September 15, 2009
Amadeus (Warner)
An American Werewolf in London (Universal)
Army of Darkness: Screwhead Edition (Universal)
The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (Miramax)
Casablanca (Warner)
Child's Play (MGM)
Crash: Season One (Anchor Bay)
Deep Impact (Paramount)
Easy Rider (Sony)
Easy Virtue (Sony)
Grey's Anatomy: The Complete Fifth Season
Hannibal Lecter Anthology [Manhunter, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal] (MGM)
Hero (Miramax)
Highlander: The Series - Season One (Legendary Heroes)
Iron Monkey (Miramax)
Legend of Drunken Master (Miramax)
Misery (MGM)
My Name Is Earl: Season Four (Fox)
Punch-Drunk Love (Sony)
Torchwood: Children of Earth (BBC)
The Ultimate Force of Four [The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, Hero, Iron Monkey, Legend of Drunken Master] (Miramax)
Van Helsing (Universal)
Varsity Blues (Paramount)
Wrong Turn (Fox)
Wrong Turn 2: Dead End(Fox)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Fox)

September 22, 2009
The Battle for Terra (Lionsgate)
The Complete Monterey Pop Festival (Criterion Collection)
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (New Line)
Gojira [Godzilla: King of Monsters] (Classic Media)
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Anchor Bay)
Hot Fuzz (Universal)
Lymelife (Screen Media Films)
Observe and Report (Warner)
Pierrot le fou (Criterion Collection)
Scooby-Doo: The Mystery Begins (Warner)
Shaun of the Dead (Universal)
Star Trek III: First Contact (Paramount)
Star Trek: The Next Generation Movie Collection (Paramount)
Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2 (Paramount)
Terminator - The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season 2 (Warner)
Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection (Lionsgate)

September 29, 2009
Away We Go (Universal)
Book of Blood (Lightning Media)
Burst Angel (FUNimation)
The Dark Crystal (Sony)
Facing the Giants (Sony)
Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (FUNimation)
The Girlfriend Experience (Magnolia)
Hardware (Severin)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Dark Sky)
How I Met Your Mother: Season Four (Fox)
Labyrinth (Sony)
Management (Image)
Monsters vs. Aliens (DreamWorks)
National Geographic Ultimate High-Definition Collection (National Geographic)
The New York Ripper (Blue Underground)
Secrets of the Cross (Kultur)
Streets of Blood (Anchor Bay)
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (Warner)
The Unit: Season 4 (Fox)
The Universe Megaset (A&E)
The Wizard of Oz (Warner)
Yellowstone: Battle for Life (BBC)

October 6, 2009
100 Feet (Asylum)
Assassination of a High School President (Sony)
Audition (Shout! Factory)
Bones: Season Four (Fox)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Warner)
The Children (Lionsgate)
Contact (Warner)
Dinosaurs Alive! (Image)
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (Warner)
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Warner)
Ghost Ship (Warner)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Fox)
Kurt Cobain: About a Son (Shout! Factory)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Sony)
Miracle on 34th Street [1947] (Fox)
Miracle on 34th Street [1994] (Fox)
My Life in Ruins (Fox)
The Number 23 (New Line)
Offspring (Lionsgate)
Seventh Moon (Lionsgate)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Platinum Edition (Disney)
Soundstage: Rob Thomas (E1)
The Thaw (Lionsgate)
Trick 'r' Treat (Warner)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Warner)
Wolf (Sony)
Year One (Sony)

October 13, 2009
Adoration (Sony)
The Craft (Sony)
Fight Club (Fox)
Fox Searchlight Vol. 1 [Juno, Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler] (Fox)
Monsoon Wedding (Criterion Collection)
Natural Born Killers (Warner)
Nickelback: Live From Sturgis (E1)
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut (Paramount)
Stanic Panic (?)
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense (Visual Entertainment)
Wolf / Bram Stoker's Dracula / Mary Shelley's Frankenstiein (Sony)

October 20, 2009
Freedomland (Sony)
Howard's End (Criterion Collection)
Iron Man: Armored Adventures (Genius)
Land of the Lost (Universal)
Night of the Creeps (Sony)
Nothing Like the Holidays (Starz)
Snatch (Sony)
Wings of Desire (Criterion Collection)
Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead (Fox)

October 27, 2009
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (Universal)
Expedition: Africa (A&E)
The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (Blue Underground)
Monty Python: Almost the Truth (Umvd/Visual)
Orphan (Warner)
The Prisoner: Complete Series (A&E)
Stargate: 15th Anniversary Edition (Lionsgate)
Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure (Disney)

November 3, 2009
A Christmas Carol [1951] (VCI)
Forrest Gump (Paramount)
Godzilla [1998] (Sony)
Heat (Warner)
Logan's Run (Warner)
The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy [Theatrical] (New Line)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: Ultimate Collector's Edition (Warner)
The Negotiator (Warner)
North By Northwest: 50th Anniversary Edition (Warner)
Say Anything: 20th Anniversary Edition (Fox)
Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Complete Season One (Warner)

November 10, 2009
Discovery Atlas - The Complete Collection (Image)
Monster's Inc (Disney)
Up (Disney)

November 17, 2009
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: A Very Sunny Christmas (Fox)
Rome: The Complete Series (HBO)
Scrubs: The Complete Eighth Season (Disney)
Star Trek [2009] (Paramount)

November 23, 2009
The Sopranos: The Complete First Season (HBO)

November 24, 2009
My Brilliant Career (Blue Underground)
Santa Buddies (Disney)

November 30, 2009
Gone With the Wind (Warner)

December 1, 2009
Secondhand Lions (New Line)

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

December 22, 2009
The Final Destination (New Line)

December 29, 2009
The Marine 2 (Fox)

 

So I FINALLY got around to watching "Coraline" yesterday for the first time, and I watched it in 3-D.

Wow. That movie is NOTHING like I expected, and in a very good way! That movie is TRIPPY!

 

Anyone know if Jaws is coming to Blu-ray soon?

 

Not anytime this year at least. Universal is still playing catch-up with their HD-DVD to Blu-ray titles and they won't be anywhere close to finishing that until next year.

Here is the list of Universal HD-DVD's that have not been released/announced for Blu-ray...

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Accepted
Alpha Dog
American Me
Animal House
Apollo 13
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Atonement
Backdraft
Balls of Fury
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Billy Madison
The Bone Collector
Born on the Fourth of July
Breach
The Breakfast Club
The Break-Up
Bulletproof
Carlito's Way
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power
Cat People (1982)
Dante's Peak
Darkman
Daylight
Dazed and Confused
Dead Silence
The Deer Hunter
Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Dragonheart
Dune (1984)
Elizabeth
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Erin Brockovich
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Evan Almighty
Evening
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
For Love of the Game
The Frighteners
The Game
The Getaway (1994)
In Good Company
The Good Shepherd
Half Baked
Happy Gilmore
The Hitcher (2007)
Hollywoodland
The Hurricane (2000)
The Interpreter
The Jerk
Liar Liar
Lost in Translation
Mallrats
Meet Joe Black
Meet The Fockers
Meet The Parents
Mercury Rising
Midnight Run
Mobsters
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Mr. Bean's Holiday
Mystery Men
Notting Hill
The Nutty Professor (1996)
Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps
Out of Sight
Patch Adams
The Pianist
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
Ray
Red Dragon
The River
Scent of a Woman
Sea of Love
Seed of Chucky
The Skeleton Key
Slither
Smokey and the Bandit
Smokin' Aces
Sneakers
Spartacus
The Sting
Streets of Fire
Talk to Me
Timecop
Traffic
Tremors
Unleashed
Waist Deep
The War
The Watcher
Waterworld
The Wedding Date
What Dreams May Come
White Noise
White Noise 2
You, Me and Dupree

 

How does the 3D look? I'm curious how it looks from a TV screen.

 

From all of the reviews I read 3D even on Blu-ray is still for the most part a gimmick. It can detract heavily from the picture quality and I have seen some people say it can actually give you a headache. I haven't seen it in action for myself but from everything I read I would say check out the 2D version for the first viewing and the second viewing go for the 3D just to satisfy your curiousity. That is just my opinion.

 

I wouldn't bother with 3D until they get it like the Real3D at the theater. Heck, even that gives me eye strain for the first 10 minutes, I can't imagine what the blue/red glasses would do. lol.