Before we had the high def formats, both Blu-ray and/or HD/DVD, am I the only one that never paid attention to what studio an upcoming movie coming out was alligned with?

I am a Blu-ray supporter and right now don't intend to go neutral, but now I find myself paying attention to whether a movie is Universal, Sony, Paramount, WB, Fox, etc. Because my wife and I prefer to wait for most movies to be released for home viewing before we see them I now take note what studio produced the film for either a future purchase or a rental on Netflix.

I know some of you will say just go neutral and therefore I won't have to worry about it anymore, but I am curious if there are any others out there like me?

Please don't turn this into a flame war about what format is better or what studios make the best movies, I am just curious how many others paid attention to the studio releasing a movie prior to Blu-ray/HD DVD.

I generally avoided Disney unless the kids made too much noise. Why? Copy-protection BS that made the film unwatchable, and endless previews.

The reason I pay for a copy to watch at home is so that I can avoid all of the BS that accompanies a theater vists - including sticky floors and previews.

Before we had the high def formats, both Blu-ray and/or HD/DVD, am I the only one that never paid attention to what studio an upcoming movie coming out was alligned with?

I am a Blu-ray supporter and right now don't intend to go neutral, but now I find myself paying attention to whether a movie is Universal, Sony, Paramount, WB, Fox, etc. Because my wife and I prefer to wait for most movies to be released for home viewing before we see them I now take note what studio produced the film for either a future purchase or a rental on Netflix.

I know some of you will say just go neutral and therefore I won't have to worry about it anymore, but I am curious if there are any others out there like me?

Please don't turn this into a flame war about what format is better or what studios make the best movies, I am just curious how many others paid attention to the studio releasing a movie prior to Blu-ray/HD DVD.

Actually Kevin, you are right on point. I'll take the other side because I feel the same way. I am an HD DVD supporter, and I have absolutely no care in the world that Disney and Fox don't put out HD DVD's. Mainly because of things like HD Cable and Xbox Live Marketplace where I can watch the same content in HD. I am sure you DVR such things from Universal and will be for Paramount. Or simply buying the SD DVD version and upconverting in your player, yes?

What people forget is that this isn't the first time we've been through this. Everytime there is a new format, or competing formats, there are always side-choosers. For example:

- People are VERY quick to forget that Laserdisc had everyone on board, and that never made it past niche.

- DVD was pretty much propped up by Warner Bros. at the beginning, while the rest of the industry didn't want to get involved at first. Fox and Disney had no intentions of supporting DVD at first, with Disney even going so far as to say their animated films would not look good in a digital format. Fox and Disney, sound familiar?

- Divx, for as horrible an idea as it was, DID have Fox and Disney (right after Disney made that statement about digital and animation. Maybe they thought Divx was analog?)


So it's not as though this HD DVD vs. Blu-ray studio thing is new. And hey, even though right now I can get all my HD content by just owning one format, the day I see a $200 BD player I'm jumping all over it. Then I'll be neutral and it won't matter.

But good points made Kevin. On the premise of the studio support, I agree wholeheartedly.

Before HD I paid no attention to the studios. Now, you have to know the studio to know which format(s) is supported, audio support (Warner HD audio support is almost non-existent on BD) and whether it be a combo disk or not.

Lol...add another me too.

Before, I couldn't care less which studio my favourite movies belong to.

Now, I'm trying wikipedia, imdb to see which studios my fav will be released in the futures.

Like Home Alone 1,2, etc....

Not only that, now I have to do some research to see if my titles were shot in film or not so they would have a chance to be transferred to BD.

I guess most of us here are just like that....this damn format war makes us work much harder...;)

I did not care about the studio. I only bought it if it was actually a good movie.

I have the same experience as the OP. Course it was easier before P/DW bailed; then I mostly just had to watch for Uni.

I've always kind of noticed studios and tend to like a few of the studios movies more than others.

However, the only time lately I've paid attention is in the few titles I want to replace my SD DVD's with HD versions. Still waiting for a $200 BD player so I can get Flight of the Phoenix

Nope. Didn't even look either.

I generally avoided Disney unless the kids made too much noise. Why? Copy-protection BS that made the film unwatchable, and endless previews.

The reason I pay for a copy to watch at home is so that I can avoid all of the BS that accompanies a theater vists - including sticky floors and previews.

The endless disney previews annoyed me also, and many discs would not allow you to skip them.

Yes, I prefer to watch stuff at home also - True - I never really paid much attention to which studio each title was from.

I can hardly wait for Disney on HD DVD, though, since it will signal the end of this stupid "war" which the BD bunch now want to extend for another 2 years...

Before we had the high def formats, both Blu-ray and/or HD/DVD, am I the only one that never paid attention to what studio an upcoming movie coming out was alligned with?

And I still pay no attention.

I buy and watch movies that I like, I could care less what company made them or promotes them.

I started with Blu-ray last November and while BD had everyone on board back then (except Universal) I still had to make sure a film I was looking for was made by a BD supporter studio. Alot of my favorite classic films (The Thing, Deer Hunter, Sting and ....) are made by Universal and it was getting frustrating. I finally made the Jump and got a HD DVD Player and since then it's been a blast. I now can get whatever movie I want without worrying if it is made by a particular studio.

Before this war I never had a clue which studio did what.

Sorry ,I replied too soon

The endless disney previews annoyed me also, and many discs would not allow you to skip them.




Disney calls this feature "Fast Play" now.. I'm not sure what is supposed to be fast about it though..

Yep, I've found my self looking up the distrbtion rights to detrime if and what format it would come out on. Sometimes were. As it may be different in other regions..

I own both so I don't care which studio it is. :D

I paid attention to the studios before this HD disc war. Previously it was for D-Theater D-VHS, as the only supported distributors were Artisan(now LIONSGATE), 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Magnolia. Before that it was the transition between of DVD and LaserDisc as not all studio supported DVD at the time. In the beginning I stuck with buying LIVE Entertainment's(Later became Artisan and now LIONSGATE) on LD because the DVD's were even worse than the LD. But Warner was most often the best so I bought the DVD version over the LD. Before that I stayed away from most Columbia LaserDisc because of Laserrot.