Top 15 Must Have Titles on HD DVD

batman begins
terminator 2
terminator 3
departed
transformers
king kong
blades of glory
hulk 2003
fast and the furious

its not 15 but those are the best ones that ive seen so far on HD dvd

Batman Begins
Bourne Trilogy
Blade Runner
Casablanca
Planet Earth
Transformers
Matrix Trilogy
V for Vendetta
Chronicles of Riddick
Harry Potter Boxset
King Kong
Heroes Season 1
Mission Impossible Trilogy
Phantom of the Opera
Battlestar Galactica Season 1

These are just my personal top 15.

Batman Begins
Planet Earth
Matrix
Out of Sight
Transformers
Shooter
The Fast and the Furious
300
Stardust

more to come when i can get in front of my collection and remember the rest..

2001 A Space Odyssey
Bourne Trilogy
V for Vendetta
Transformers
The Warriors
The Searchers
Carlito's Way
Robin Hood
The Matrix-Was able to score the first film from Blockbuster.
Shooter
Training Day
MI 3
Pitch Black
TMNT-for my son
The Thing

TMNT-for your son ? come on be honest now

Cmon HDDVD fans


Letters from Iwo Jima
The Pianist
The Hurricane
pans Labyrinth
Michael Clayton


If these aren't on your list your depriving yourself from Modern day classics.
Pans might not be your taste and The Hurricane might not fit the classic category but Letters, The Pianist and Michael Clayton are Amazing.

Band of Brothers
Batman Begins
Blade Runner
Bourne Trilogy
Casablanca
Dreamgirls
Eagles: Farewell Tour 1 - Live In Melbourne
Flags Of Our Fathers
Grand Prix
Harry Potter Boxset
Hulk
I Am Legend
King Kong
Planet Earth, BBC Edition
Ray
Santana: Hymns For Peace Live At Montreux 2004
Star Trek: TOS
The Thing
We Were Soldiers
Zodiac: Director's Cut

Ok, so I can't count!

2001
Blade Runner
Batman Begins
Band of Brothers
Eastern Promises
Star Trek:TOS
Heroes Season 1
Harry Potter box set
Planet Earth
King Kong
The Thing
The Searchers
Unforgiven
Equilibrium
Robin Hood
Hot Fuzz

WB titles WILL be hard to get. Universal and Paramount titles are more plentiful.

Any movie that you personally want to own is a "must have" title on HD-DVD because of how much cheaper it is than the Blu-Ray version. Last week I purchased:

- Heroes S1
- Big Lebowski
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Mallrats
- Van Helsing
- Serenity

All online for a combined $43, shipped. The price of Heroes S1 by itself on Blu-Ray always seems to be near the $70 range.

1. Band of Brothers 5 disc set (hands down #1 HD DVD title)

2. T2 "Studio Canal" (remains the definitive HD version on any format)

3. The Matrix (pure demo bliss and a modern classic)

4. Casablanca (same transfer as the $40 Blu-ray version, lol)

5. Blade Runner (unreal 5 version set, cinemagasm for fans)

6. Freedom 1 or 2 (the HDi technology is simply amazing)

7. Serenity (first HD DVD and still one of the best)

8. Rio Bravo (the best western released on HD DVD in the U.S.)

9. In the Shadow of the Moon UK import (feel good Ron Howard, breathtaking rare archival footage remastered in HD, hard to find now)

10. Hot Fuzz (frankly an amazing movie, an epic Dolby Digital Plus EX track)

11. South Park: Good Times with Weapons (good times indeed)

12. Bonnie and Clyde (one of the last rare Warner titles actually worth owning)

13. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938 never looked so good, HD Looney Tunes)

14. The Matador (the only must own Weinstein release, woefully underrated)

15. Saw uncut German import (4 star horror/suspense)

Yeah... I'm watching it now with my 89 year old dad. At the end of each episode we just sit through the closing credits... stunned... listening to the music until it goes silent. Then we take a breath and bring up the lights.

It is a good title, but It's also the most expensive HD DVD set out there. It's actually cheaper to buy a BD player and the the BDs than to buy the imports.

Oh... that's right. I have so many HD DVD's I forgot I got this one on Blu-ray. $35.99... quite a deal!

Possibly in order of importance (to me):

Children of Men
The Big Lebowski
Shaun of the Dead
Star Trek - The Original Series - Season 1
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Matrix Trilogy
Hot Fuzz
Batman Begins
Into the Wild
Pianist, The
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Casino
Touching the Void
Elephant Man
One Six Right

The must have ones are the ones not available on BD like The Big Lebowski or Hot Fuzz. Or discs like Equilibrium that were botched on import BD. The Bourne Trilogy, Serenity, ect have better versions on BD, so I wouldn't call them must haves.

Well, actually some of the BD versions by Universal are worse than the HD-DVDs. The most glaring example is probably The Thing, which looks clearly inferior on the BD (probably due to increased noise filtering). I'd recommend getting these titles while they are still available.

Back to topic, off the top of my head my recommendations would be: Blade Runner, Zodiac, Hot Fuzz, Matrix Trilogy, T2 (either the French Studio Canal or the German Kinowelt verision), Band of Brothers, Star Trek Season 1. Then there are still a lot of great exclusive titles that are not even announced on BD, e.g. Children of Men, Forbidden Planet, The Deer Hunter, The Matador, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inside Man, Wolf Creek, Stalingrad (French import), 3 Days of the Condor (European import) and probably about a hundred more.

Must haves
Batman Begins
Pans Labyrinth (UK)
Hot Fuzz
Blade Runner
The Matrix (1st)
Planet Earth
Star trek TOS
2001

Runner ups
Robin Hood
Shaun of the Dead
Transformers
Rio Bravo
300
We were soldiers

2001: A Space Odyssey (still the most jaw-dropping title in the thinking/breathing/experiencing 'this is what high-definition is all about' being-there moment);
I Am Legend;
Children of Men;
Hot Fuzz (so much stuff crammed into one HD-30 disc, yet the picture/sound are outstanding);
The Matrix Trilogy (the first movie is much better than the sequels but, as a whole, one hell of a demo Box Set);
The Shining (high-def + children's tricycle + gliding steadycam + creepy hotel = soiled pants! )
Grand Prix;
Serenity;
That's Entertainment Trilogy;
Casablanca;
Pan's Labyrinth;
Batman Begins;
Battlestar Galactica S1;
The Adventures of Robin Hood;
Planet Earth (the most useful tool to turn a non-HD believer into a mouth-breathing high-def nut);
The Host.

The scary thing is that a lot of these Top 15 movies mentioned here I already own but haven't gotten around watching yet. My list is sure to expand when/if I get around watching more HD-DVD's!

Right there with you. I need to get around to watching more of my HD DVDs.

I also own a lot of these recommended movies but haven't watched them yet, including Hot Fuzz. Gotta make some time for them. Saturday night we watched The Brave One and though it wouldn't be in many Top 15 lists but the PQ was amazing. Gotta love HD!

Casablanca
Pride and Prejudice
Elizabeth
Bourne Ultimatum (of course it works on Blu, too)
Battlestar Galactica

Babysitters (HD30 vs. BD25)
Planet Earth
Torchwood
The Big Lebowski
Dreamgirls

Black Snake Moan
The Searchers
R. Kelly Live (or Queen--take your pic)
Transformers (duh) or Hot Fuzz
La Môme (French import -- also available on Blu)

Honorable mentions:
Atonement, Serenity, Seabiscuit, Shaun of the Dead, Harry Potter 5, 300, Picture This, Dreamgirlz, Mobster's Ball, Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre, Galapagos, Mission Impossible 3, Stardust, The Thing, Training Day, V for Vendetta, Kanye West: Late Orchestration, C*ckasian, Vivaldi: The Four Seasons and EVERYTHING from Surround Records, nothing from Opus Arte (the Blu versions are all better), Mahler, Beerfest, nothing from Vanguard, Band of Brothers, Equilibrium, Blazing Saddles, Rio Bravo, Bonnie and Clyde, all the Kubrick stuff except the original FMJ, Star Trek: TOS, Nip/ Tuck S:4, Heroes: S1, Knocked Up and Lucky # Slevin.

I liked it a lot better than Shaun of the Dead.

Children of Men
Forbidden Planet
Big Lebowski
American Werewolf in London
The Thing
Star Trek: TOS
Casablanca
Dune
Pride and Prejudice
Streets of Fire
Adventures of Robin Hood
Zodiac
Dante's Peak
12 Monkeys

The other HD DVDs that are must-haves are cross-platform now, but I'd never give up my HDs of them: 2001, Batman Begins, 300, Planet Earth, Blade Runner, Heroes S1, etc. etc.

In no particular order:

Blade Runner (even though I have this one on BD )
2001
Eyes Wide Shut
The Shining
Batman Begins
Transformers
The Thing
Star Trek TOS
Sneakers
Lost In Translation
Zodiac
I Am Legend
Harry Potter 5
Bourne Ultimatum
Apollo 13

was beerfest a good movie ? i saw it today at frys for $7.99 but i grabbed some others 1st that i know id like cause of the actors in it. wasnt sure if i should get beerfest on HD dvd or not.

It's one I don't want.

http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/591/beerfest.html