HD DVD movies not coming fast enough.

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Robert D

Discussion Starter · May 11, 2006

I thought we were told there would be like 200 titles released in 2006 but at the rate they are being released we will be lucky to have 80 by the end of the year. Seems to me if they want this format to succeed they had best put in high gear.

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Robert George

· #2 · May 11, 2006

Patience, Grasshopper.

The format has only been out less than a month.

trbarry

· #3 · May 11, 2006

I think it was once claimed there were also going to be a zillion D-Theater titles, but they never arrived. If the format is sufficiently successful then eventually most everthing will be out on HD DVD. And if not, won't.

We'll just have to wait and see.

- Tom

Esox50

· #4 · May 11, 2006

I think it is difficulty in authoring and QC that is slowing things down. Some people would have us believe everything is wonderful and easy, but I think the truth is that this is a learning process and not easy right now.

Again, it's a charade, by each side, to show everyone that one side is in a better position than the other, etc. I get more and more tired of this by the day too. Instead of trying to beat each other by being first, they should have done a unification and launched in 2007. At this point, I'm not jumping in until then (at the earliest) anyway, and they only have themselves to blame for this. My $0.02.

Rachael Bellomy

· #5 · May 11, 2006

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Originally Posted by Robert D
I thought we were told there would be like 200 titles released in 2006 but at the rate they are being released we will be lucky to have 80 by the end of the year. Seems to me if they want this format to succeed they had best put in high gear.

I bet you don't have the patience for activiies like, say, fishing...? All I can say is keep your bait in the water where the lunkers lay.

Robert George

· #6 · May 11, 2006

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I think it is difficulty in authoring and QC that is slowing things down. Some people would have us believe everything is wonderful and easy, but I think the truth is that this is a learning process and not easy right now.

That is true to a degree, but in the case of HD-DVD, I don't think they are that far behind the learning curve. At this moment, from what I hear, it is more a capacity issue than anything else. Only so many discs can be mastered an pressed by the facilities that are currently in production. I have been told that Warner alone has more than 50 titles in the immediate pipeline. I don't know the status of Universal or Paramount, but we know they are releasing so we have to assume they have work in the immediate pipeline as well. Add to that the "rumor" that at least one studio that has not yet aannounced releases for HD-DVD is actually having titles authored right now and you get a backlog of authoring and pressing capacity. As more production capacity ramps up, we will be seeing increasingly more titles and more copies as we move into summer and fall.

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longshot

· #7 · May 11, 2006

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Originally Posted by Robert George
That is true to a degree, but in the case of HD-DVD, I don't think they are that far behind the learning curve. At this moment, from what I hear, it is more a capacity issue than anything else. Only so many discs can be mastered an pressed by the facilities that are currently in production. I have been told that Warner alone has more than 50 titles in the immediate pipeline. I don't know the status of Universal or Paramount, but we know they are releasing so we have to assume they have work in the immediate pipeline as well. Add to that the "rumor" that at least one studio that has not yet aannounced releases for HD-DVD is actually having titles authored right now and you get a backlog of authoring and pressing capacity. As more production capacity ramps up, we will be seeing increasingly more titles and more copies as we move into summer and fall.

OK Robert,

Care to drop a hint as to who this "rumored" studio is?

Mark Zimmer

· #8 · May 11, 2006

The promotional materials in many of Warner's HD DVDs have said over 50 titles in 2006; they're well on target for exceeding that, and with Universal issuing 2-3 per week, plus Paramount shortly to get into the game, there will soon be quite a few out there. It looks a little bleak because of the late announcements, but I think we may very well be at or near 200 titles by 12/31/06.

rlindo

· #9 · May 11, 2006

Yeah I'd say patience as well. Also, it seems each week more and more are being released meaning one week maybe 5 and the week later 7 I am sure before year's end there will be weeks where like 15+ will be released, etc.

Patience...things always trickle out slow at the start. History has shown this every single time a new product/format is released

DavidHir

· #10 · May 11, 2006

I hope Paramount starts ramping up soon --- I know they have three titles announced.

I just can't imagine what Sleepy Hollow will look like.

Ursa

· #11 · May 11, 2006

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I just can't imagine what Sleepy Hollow will look like.

I'm going to guess "dark".

BenDover

· #12 · May 11, 2006

Apparently, Warner has announced a full HD-DVD treatment for the whole Dirty Harry franchise to coincide with a video game release in 2007...

Robert George

· #13 · May 11, 2006

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Care to drop a hint as to who this "rumored" studio is?

I'd be happy to if I knew with more certainty. The info I got was simply "a studio that has not yet announced support for HD-DVD". Tentative release for these unnamed titles was supposed to be August, so I expect we will find out soon enough.

From a different source, I was told of tentative plans from a (second tier) studio I do know the name of, but I don't know if both of these sources were referring to the same studio. If I knew it was the same one, I'd call it more than a rumor or hearsay. It could be two things going on behind the scenes right now.

Or not.

Ja Phule

· #14 · May 11, 2006

Probably Disney.

Robert D

Discussion Starter · #15 · May 11, 2006

That would be great news and very good for HD DVD if Disney were to announce support for the format.

egore

· #16 · May 11, 2006

Disney has already said that they will be producing for both formats. Maybe its FOX.

Ja Phule

· #17 · May 11, 2006

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Disney has already said that they will be producing for both formats. Maybe its FOX.

Disney hasn't made it official that they've supported HD DVD yet.

Fox seems pretty adamant about using BD+, they'll probably ride with Blu-Ray until Blu-Ray is officially dead (should it die, of course)

Art Sonneborn

· #18 · May 11, 2006

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Originally Posted by BenDover
Apparently, Warner has announced a full HD-DVD treatment for the whole Dirty Harry franchise to coincide with a video game release in 2007...

Was it four titles or only three,in all the excitement I forgot myself.

Art

Ursa

· #19 · May 12, 2006

The blurb had five titles, but I didn't remember The Dead Pool as being a DH movie, punk.

shiznit

· #20 · May 12, 2006

i'd wager that ALL 200 hd dvd titles are already made and that thousands of each of those titles are sitting in a warehouse somewhere collecting dust!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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