Warner titles missing on BD (already on HD-DVD)

Batman Begins
V for Vendetta

Greetings

When they figure out that iME stuff, it will come out on BD.

regards

I assuming you meant Terminator 3?

T3
V
Troy

All at 50gb, of course.

I want to see Grand Prix and Troy on a BD50 with lossless audio. But I'm not holding my breath. Warner will probably port the HD DVD versions.

T3, i'd be happy if this piece of trash never got released on BD. It should have never been released in the theater either, heck they should've not even bothered writing the screenplay. The only time T3 was a good idea is when James Cameron had a dream about a possible T3 story!

Exactly. T3 was retarded!! The first two films hammered home the point that the "future isn't set". That we as human beings are responsible for what the future brings. It was a moral and social commentary on fate, reason, choice, HOPE. This drove the films' subtext, past the action sequences.

This film totally undercut the brilliance of the first 2 by saying that the future is already set, you just live it. Umm ok. The acting stunk from both of the young actors. The Doctor showing up at the Cemetary was stupid as well.

If they use the same encodes on a BD50 (which they likely will) we'll have some of you bitching again about "wasiting 20GB LOL!" sigh........

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Out of the current HD DVD exclusives listed above, have any been announced for BD yet?

WB's release strategy is perplexing. It seems a studio would either be exclusive to one format or truly neutral like Paramount. Why release some movies in both formats but not others (at least delaying some releases in BD)?

Maybe they are waiting for BD sales to improve before opening up the spigot.

Agreed.... but the special effects in 3 were really awesome. The crane scene is absolutely incredible.

Don't be so sure

I think they are still trying to master the various codecs and determine which works and which doesn't.

You have to admit, this is much more complicated than the early days of DVD.

T3 just set things up for T4 which is based after the nukes in the earth's ruines.He said he would be back.

Dont know if its Warner or not but I want my "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"

well you gotta switch over to hd dvd for fear and loathing its a Universal title and they are exclusively with hd dvd.

Well at least I have the dvd

I would say V is the new reference for HD-DVD for both picture quality and audio (TrueHD) just slightly surpassing Batman Begins. Is it a coincidence both these titles are VC-1 and have TrueHD?

Warner Home Video is often referred to as "neutral" because they have released titles on both HD DVD and Blu-ray. The truth is, Warner Home Video is not neutral. A corporate (Time Warner) decision was made to publish on Blu-ray, but the actual release schedule is decided by WHV. That release schedule, as is noted by this thread, indicates WHV's position vis-a-vie HD disc formats.

What really kills Warner BD titles is that they are just using the same HD-DVD transfer and putting it onto Blu-Ray discs. How awesome would the Warner releases be if they tool full advantage of the Blu-Ray data rates and disc size?

I am glad there is a format war to keep quality up, but it also has this dissadvantage. They are encoding to the least common denomonator.

Of the handful of true 10/10 HD-DVD titles in regards to PQ, Fear and Loathing is definitley up there with the best. The arrival to Las Vegas strip with all the lights are some of the most breathtaking live-action HD material i've ever seen

That might be true, but not the way you think.

Blu-ray is currently the "least common denominator" as you put it. BD50 is not widely available so the vast majority of BD discs are limited to 25 GB. Also, no advanced audio codec support is being used to any great extend on BD because not all hardware supports it. Also, interactivity is limited on BD because the hardware does not always support it.

Lastly, it should be noted that we have been told Warner is not encoding for limitations. HD DVD encodes are for the HD DVD format, meaning 30 GB with the total bandwidth limites of that format. If something does not fit on 25 GB, Warner is either leaving features off, releasing on BD50 when possible (The Searchers), or not putting things on BD at all (all IME titles).


I suppose they could make the BDs just as awesome as the HD DVDs.

A reasoned response. Thanks.

Warner Brothers is anything but neutral. Right off the bat you can tell because even when they get a BD50 for Superman Returns, they drop the TrueHD track! Hell, they could have room for an 8 channel, 24/96 uncompressed LPCM track with the BD50 because they're waisting tons of space since it's basically the same master encode used for HD-DVD put on Blu-Ray (just the cadence flags are left off the progressive video)!!!

Look at Fox, they're forward thinking by putting lossless tracks (and more than 5.1 channel masters on films that were mixed that way, like X-Men 3) on all their titles (and MGM's too). They didn't have to do it since we have to wait for new surround processors and HDMI 1.3 to listen to them, but they did because they are being forward thinkers. Warner and most of the other studios are not.

I agree with Dan on this one.