The Big Lebowski??? Is it going to be Blu-ray???

It is Universal right?

So it won't be Blu-ray until Universal is (if ever).


edit: available on HD DVD now right?

Ok thanks!
Regular dvd will do for now.

It was released at the end of June on HD DVD and is a very nice upgrade over the SD DVD version.

At the rate things are going I would hold on unless you absolutely have to own it in high definition now. I am choosing to wait on everything Universal and I own an HD DVD player.

At the rate things are going I would hold on unless you absolutely have to own it in high definition now. I am choosing to wait on everything Universal and I own an HD DVD player already.

What sense does that make? Will your HD-DVD player magically stop working if Universal becomes format neutral? I can understand the 'wait-and-see' stance for combo discs, but The Big Lebowski is not one of those.

Either way, the Dude abides. :)

just rip the VC1 codec and burn it on to a bluray. Apparantly lots of HD DVD guys are ripping movies they can't get off Tivo and burning it on to hddvds.

At the rate things are going I would hold on unless you absolutely have to own it in high definition now. I am choosing to wait on everything Universal and I own an HD DVD player.
Then why do you even have an HD DVD player :confused:

The Big Lebowski??? Is it going to be Blu-ray???
Nope, HD DVD exclusive.
You can buy an HD DVD player for only $199, free HDMI, free shipping, Zero tax, and 5 free HD DVDs to boot from Value.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=879457

just rip the VC1 codec and burn it on to a bluray. Apparantly lots of HD DVD guys are ripping movies they can't get off Tivo and burning it on to hddvds.

More please. there are working HD-DVD burners? I thought that BD Burners were just starting to surface, and that they were expensive as heck, and limited to BD25. I knew we'd see BD HD burners eventually, but I have yet to see any in person.

Then why do you even have an HD DVD player :confused:

I feel the same way as Aaron. IMO, hands down, Universal makes the most problem-prone HD-DVD's. IMO, it's a combination of disc features beyond the Toshiba players ability to process and a variety of manufacturing problems. Big Lebowski is one of the scant few HD-DVD's I've bought lately. I'd be way more inclined to buy an HD-DVD from any other studio issing them, well, not scared to buy them.... ;) However, Uni is the biggest studio and every once and a while they put out a title I can't resist......like Meet The Fochers. Returning and exchanging their stuff has peeved me off....

I have Blu and would rather pluck films on BD's but resistence is futile sometimes for me..... ;)

i'm guessing aaron still has a hd-dvd player because he may still have a few titles left he watches from time to time that are hd-dvd exclusive. he's just holding out on buying any more hd-dvds b/c he feels it's a matter of time b4 he sees the same movie on blu-ray. in this case he doesnt want to buy the hd-dvd and then later on have to replace it with the BD copy.

why bother replacing when the bd becomes available? b/c it's much more convenient to have one machine play your hd movies than to have two, esp if one of the two has become an obsolete format.

Nope, HD DVD exclusive.
You can buy an HD DVD player for only $199, free HDMI, free shipping, Zero tax, and 5 free HD DVDs to boot from Value.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=879457


Buy another machine for a few titles? Not going to happen. I have Denon 3910 that plays DVDs just fine thank you.

Nope, HD DVD exclusive.
You can buy an HD DVD player for only $199, free HDMI, free shipping, Zero tax, and 5 free HD DVDs to boot from Value.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=879457

yeah, and if he only has 2 or 3 hdmi ports that're all taken up already. where is he going to plug in that extra device he spent $200 on to watch movies from 2 studios that should eventually be available on the BD device he already owns.

sure at $200 (lowest i've heard is $250) anyone can spring for a hd-dvd player, but is that where hd-dvd is going to stand? as the Universal/Weinstein player? i personally refuse to have to connect 2 devices that does the same thing of playing movies in HD. i also have no hdmi ports to spare with all 3 on my receiver being occupied by a ps3, digital cable hd dvr box, and a upscaling region free dvd player.

had the hd-dvd players be region free on both dvds and hd-dvds, i can see myself replacing the dvd player with a hd-dvd player. at $249 it's about the same price as the Oppo and comes with 5 free titles. otherwise i just dont crave the univ/weinstein titles enough to warrant buying a separate machine.

As stated above, the HD version is a very nice upgrade over the SD version. This is one of my favorite movies. IMO, it's worth getting an Toshiba A2 or A20 to watch the Universal titles. You can always move it to secondary viewing room later especially since the A2 is only $238 now on Amazon.

As stated above, the HD version is a very nice upgrade over the SD version. This is one of my favorite movies. IMO, it's worth getting an Toshiba A2 or A20 to watch the Universal titles. You can always move it to secondary viewing room later especially since the A2 is only $238 now on Amazon.

that's not a bad option if the dvd player in my bedroom dies.

Nfw :)

this thread is annoying

-Gary

Then why do you even have an HD DVD player :confused:

I bought my Toshiba HD A1 last year. I chose HD DVD because everything I read including the lackluster performance of Samsung's first player as well as less-than stellar image quality of a few discs such as the original "The Fifth Element" convinced me that Blu-ray was gonna be another in a long line of format failures for Sony.

I was a pretty vocal HD DVD supporter in this and other forums last year. However, when Universal took a vacation at CES and the Playstation 3 made its debut, I began to reconsider the purchase of a Blu-ray player. As Rachael indicated, though I was generally happy with my HD DVDs, I started to have some minor hiccups when playing a few of the discs. I decided to go neutral in December and purchased a PS3. I haven't had a single problem with any disc since my purchase (knock on wood) and I will go on to say that Sony's PS3 is one of the best electronics investments I have ever made. Period. Sony seems to have finally "gotten it." They have released rapid firmware updates, released some very impressive looking titles and have made good on their previous missteps (the remastered "The Fifth Element"). That realization along with what appears to be staunch retailer, manufacturer and studio support has since motivated me to go Blu-ray exclusive. When AVS members revealed the discount codes for the Warner Bros. store I decided to replace all my Warner HD DVDs with their Blu-ray counterparts and went on to sell all of my HD DVDs on eBay.

I am of the belief that the format war was initially a very good thing. But in my opinion, the consumers, manufacturers, retailers and studios are making a choice and it is clearly Blu-ray. I personally don't want to have two different high definition formats. I will eventually have a high def player in every room that has a flat screen and I just don't want to have to buy a dual format player or two units for every room.

My HD DVD player is not a paper weight. I will continue to enjoy it as an upconverting DVD player. And if my prediction doesn't pan out, there may be a few Universal titles I will be purchasing on HD DVD next year...but I doubt I will have to.

this thread is annoying

-Gary

Gary, is somebody twisting your arm to read it?

i'm pretty much with Aaron on his HDM stance, except i didn't buy the hd-dvd player when HD-DVD was ahead in the race, but at the time if i was to buy a player it would've been hd-dvd. since then everything played out as aaron said and here i am a BD supporter.

"That's just, like, your opinion man." - The Dude

Why not wait until Universal goes neutral?

I bought my Toshiba HD A1 last year. I chose HD DVD because everything I read including the lackluster performance of Samsung's first player as well as less-than stellar image quality of a few discs such as the original "The Fifth Element" convinced me that Blu-ray was gonna be another in a long line of format failures for Sony.

I was a pretty vocal HD DVD supporter in this and other forums last year. However, when Universal took a vacation at CES and the Playstation 3 made its debut, I began to reconsider the purchase of a Blu-ray player. As Rachael indicated, though I was generally happy with my HD DVDs, I started to have some minor hiccups when playing a few of the discs. I decided to go neutral in December and purchased a PS3. I haven't had a single problem with any disc since my purchase (knock on wood) and I will go on to say that Sony's PS3 is one of the best electronics investments I have ever made. Period. Sony seems to have finally "gotten it." They have released rapid firmware updates, released some very impressive looking titles and have made good on their previous missteps (the remastered "The Fifth Element"). That realization along with what appears to be staunch retailer, manufacturer and studio support has since motivated me to go Blu-ray exclusive. When AVS members revealed the discount codes for the Warner Bros. store I decided to replace all my Warner HD DVDs with their Blu-ray counterparts and went on to sell all of my HD DVDs on eBay.

I am of the belief that the format war was initially a very good thing. But in my opinion, the consumers, manufacturers, retailers and studios are making a choice and it is clearly Blu-ray. I personally don't want to have two different high definition formats. I will eventually have a high def player in every room that has a flat screen and I just don't want to have to buy a dual format player or two units for every room.

My HD DVD player is not a paper weight. I will continue to enjoy it as an upconverting DVD player. And if my prediction doesn't pan out, there may be a few Universal titles I will be purchasing on HD DVD next year...but I doubt I will have to.
Maybe 500,000 true BD players in the world an the consumer has made a choice? There are that many HDDVD players to you know.

Maybe 500,000 true BD players in the world an the consumer has made a choice? There are that many HDDVD players to you know.



Funny...my PS3 has no problem playing Blu-Ray discs. I forgot those don't count to HDDVD fanboys since they skew the numbers in a way they don't like.

I guess I'll just have to keep watching Blu-Ray discs on my "fake" BD player, eh?

I am afraid that one day the BDA will storm into my bathroom and threaten me to cut off my Johnson if I do not give in and buy more blurays.

;)

Did I mention the movie totally rocks on HD DVD?

With such a silly fanboyish sig and user title, I doubt they'll think you're worth the trouble.


Standards, ya know.....

Yeah, the user title is kind of fanboyish. Maybe I change it. - No.

But the sig is just the truth. And the blu-robots really remind me of the Germans from The Big Lebowski. ;)

Maybe 500,000 true BD players in the world an the consumer has made a choice? There are that many HDDVD players too you know.
Yes Virginia, the PS3 is a Blu-ray player whether the HD DVD camp wants to acknowledge that fact or not. I own nearly 200 Blu-ray disc MOVIES and one video game. I don't think I am alone. I love my Playstation 3 and its versatility.

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-9/1071897/ps3.jpg

Sony sold 5.5 million PS3 units last year, mainly in Japan and the US, and expects to double shipments to 11 million in the current year. Even if a fraction of those units are utilized for Blu-ray playback, this war is o-v-e-r.

PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) SALES PICK UP STEAM, INCREASE BY MORE THAN 135% On the heels of a strong showing at E3, today Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) announced retail growth for PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) in July. Based on preliminary internal data, PS3 sales have increased by more than 135% at the company's top five retailers since the new $499 price was announced two weeks ago on July 9th. During this same two-week period, total PlayStation hardware sales have increased by 161%, software by 15% and peripherals by60%. Also, according to NPD sales data released today for the month of June, PlayStation sales increased prior to E3, as well. Overall, the PlayStation brand continued to exhibit solid growth evidenced by a 21% increase in total retail dollars generated year-over-year in North America with total sales of $393 million. PS3 sales were up 21% over May's figures, with 98,469 units sold at retail.

There's probably alot of remotes included in that peripherals number! :)

Seriously, I hope Universal switches soon...I'd love the Big Lebowski on BluRay...and really love Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas since my original dvd transfer is so crummy. Probably have a handful of other Universal titles whenever they make the switch as well.

I haven't experienced any problems on HDDVDS that I bought. I have had a couple of hickups on some Netflix rentals though.

I bought my Toshiba HD A1 last year. I chose HD DVD because everything I read including the lackluster performance of Samsung's first player as well as less-than stellar image quality of a few discs such as the original "The Fifth Element" convinced me that Blu-ray was gonna be another in a long line of format failures for Sony.


Aaron,

I will take that A1 off your hands for a fair price, I live in Phoenix and have cash.
I think the PS3 does a slightly better job of upscaling anyway. Shoot me a PM if your interested.

Aaron,

I will take that A1 off your hands for a fair price, I live in Phoenix and have cash.
I think the PS3 does a slightly better job of upscaling anyway. Shoot me a PM if your interested.


Make me an offer I can't refuse. I have been considering listing it on ebay a few times but I am not sure if the amount I would get for it or the hassle would be worth it. I think the proper way to handle this is private messages though if you are being serious.

Ok,

First off, sorry for the ressurrection. But it has been 3 years since the original post and I have seen no sign of this Blu-Ray. What gives?

The Big Lebowski is one of my wife's favorite movies. I need to keep her happy so I can feed my obsession, er hobby!

up for now theres only these version out:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showpost.php?p=18801327&postcount=1719

Heres some screens (made by Dartdvd):

http://www.imieibluray.com/capture_bluray/grandelebowski/confronti/confronto1.png

http://www.imieibluray.com/capture_bluray/grandelebowski/confronti/confronto2.png

http://www.imieibluray.com/capture_bluray/grandelebowski/confronti/confronto3.png

http://www.imieibluray.com/capture_bluray/grandelebowski/confronti/confronto4.png

http://www.imieibluray.com/capture_bluray/grandelebowski/confronti/confronto5.png

http://www.imieibluray.com/capture_bluray/grandelebowski/confronti/confronto6.png

http://www.imieibluray.com/capture_bluray/grandelebowski/confronti/confronto7.png

http://www.imieibluray.com/capture_bluray/grandelebowski/confronti/confronto8.png