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"Here Comes Blu-Ray" 1000 MGM title ready for Blu-ray

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Thanks to Grubert's post

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/bluray/index.html


click on the link for all of it

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What I saw this evening was VERY impressive! We watched scenes from Ice Age II, The Day After Tomorrow, and Ridley Scott's 3-hour director's cut of Kingdom Of Heaven, the first 50GB release from the studio.


I'll be damned if I saw any imperfections in the quality of the displayed picture in the parts we got to see. As far as I'm concerned, the image quality was just as stunning as stuff I have seen on HD-DVD. Furthermore, the Java based interactive content and menu controls that we viewed on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen looked just as impressive as some of the new content being put on new HD-DVD Universal titles such as Fast & Furious 2: Tokyo Drift
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The studios have something else to be very optimistic about with the upcoming release of the Playstation 3 gaming console due to arrive this fall. There have been many concerns by home theater enthusiasts as to how well the PS3 will perform as a Blu-Ray player. Fox talked extensively about the Playstation 3 and the Blu-Ray titles they have been testing on their sample unit. According to the studio, the Blu-Ray titles played much better on the P3 than standard DVDs have in regular DVD players. This sort of promised compatibility certainly raises the stakes of the PS3 being a reliable Blu-Ray delivery unit similar to the interesting developments surrounding the XBox 360 for HD DVD.
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Speaking of MGM, that company's video division is now being headed by Eric Doctorow (formerly of Paramount), who paid a visit to last week's retail summit. Doctorow has put together a dedicated team of individuals to run the MGM unit that has been set up through Twentieth Century Fox. Doctorow announced that MGM has 1000 titles already transferred to high definition and ready to go on Blu-Ray. This library includes titles from the likes of Orion, United Artists and AIP. Fox is proudly touting that with MGM at its side, there are now 6,000 titles at their disposal.
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Good stuff!
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Yes, read it all and it is interesting. We'll have to see how fast the products mentioned can be rolled out, have reasonable prices, and whether they will even truly deliver as promised. Unfortunately, the circumstances of BD/Sony so far have left a cloud of skepticism over such promises. Does seem like the chances are much better though than what we've seen of the "early" launch...
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Having 1000 HD masters is not the same thing as having 1000 Blu-rays authored and awaiting distribution. All of the major studios should have thousands of HD masters in their catalog by this point.
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All I have to say is BRING IT ON!!! Enough talk & hype. My Sammy wants a BD50.
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If only we could watch announcements and press releases in our home theaters. :(
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Having 1000 HD masters is not the same thing as having 1000 Blu-rays authored and awaiting distribution. All of the major studios should have thousands of HD masters in their catalog by this point.
And I wonder how many of those 1000 were done this century.
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Hmmm, this sounds a lot like SONY saying "we have hundreds of title already for sale in the US". Plus its completely irrelevant and misleading, as everyone here should already know!


It only makes sense that they have movies mastered in High-Def. Have you noticed that most DVDs you buy today say "mastered in high definition" on the back?? All the studios have started mastering their movies in high-def...it only makes sense (HDTV anyone?). It doesn't mean they are being transfered to HD-DVD or BR anytime soon. And when was the last time a movie studio released 1000 movies for sale on DVD in one year? Maybe a few movies a week on DVD. Much less on a high-def format. They aren't going to waste money making 1000 BR titled discs that may not (and most likely will not) sell. They will release a handful a month...so, 1000 titles from MGM in 5-10 years may sound a bout right (if BR wins by the way...which doesn't look good at all). All this is is obvious news of the way things are done now. I would not be shocked if ALL movies are mastered in HD now. It means NOTHING for HD-DVD or BR. I guess you have to latch on to something if you are a BR supporter though
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Hmmm, this sounds a lot like SONY saying "we have hundreds of title already for sale in the US". Plus its completely irrelevant and misleading, as everyone here should already know!
Maybe. But you haven't latched on to the fact that those Fox and MGM titles won't be on HD-DVD.



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Am I seeing double?
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Am I seeing double?
No.
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time for "Platoon" :eek:


I am not trashing Epstein, the guy is ok, but a few years back he was bashing D-Theater because he said that the tapes lowered in picture quality with each viewing like standard VHS WTF!! :confused: :mad: which everyone knows is not even physically possible


the HTF is as paid off as a online forum gets ;)


so.....take what you will


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A lot of movies that were "mastered in hidef" a few years ago are going to have to be remastered in order to become credible Blu-Ray or HD DVD disks.
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I agree rlsmith, and thats exactly what they have been doing. At least some have. Hopefully they all will.
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And when was the last time a movie studio released 1000 movies for sale on DVD in one year?
You could have saved your breath, no one's claiming that MGM are going to release 1000 HD titles in a year or any time frame, the only person you're convincing is yourself, the rest of us seem to have clued on already.
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Maybe. But you haven't latched on to the fact that those Fox and MGM titles won't be on HD-DVD.


I thought BD supporters thought long-term, considering you are always looking for the future "launch"! :rolleyes:


Sure, no Fox or MGM now, despite HD-DVD outselling BD by leaps & bounds. Just as there is no Universal for BD now - studio support changes like the wind. In the meantime, I'll take Universal's exclusives over those from Fox any day of the week. I have yet to see a single title from the collective Fox and Disney announcements that tempt me even an inkling.
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I thought BD supporters thought long-term, considering you are always looking for the future "launch"! :rolleyes:
In fact, you have found a very interesting point.

Whenever someone argued "there's no BD-50 available" or "lots of releases have less-than-impressive PQ" you got the good old "Just wait a bit, things are going to improve a lot, really, I'm certain!"


Yet, when it comes to studio support, things are set in stone for eternity. It's quite funny really.
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I am not trashing Epstein, the guy is ok, but a few years back he was bashing D-Theater because he said that the tapes lowered in picture quality with each viewing like standard VHS WTF!! :confused: :mad: which everyone knows is not even physically possible


the HTF is as paid off as a online forum gets ;)


so.....take what you will


-Gary
Can't agree more! :p
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Sure, no Fox or MGM now, despite HD-DVD outselling BD by leaps & bounds. Just as there is no Universal for BD now - studio support changes like the wind. In the meantime, I'll take Universal's exclusives over those from Fox any day of the week. I have yet to see a single title from the collective Fox and Disney announcements that tempt me even an inkling.
I think political support changes far more often than the wind, but that's beside the point. And the point is user Foolin latched on to a tangeant while completely ignoring the main bulk of the post, which was Fox is getting ready to launch a big BD campaign, and with them MGM's libraries.


While it's definitely your taste to prefer Universal's output against Fox, I feel the coming batch of releases looks very promising indeed. I would like for Universal to go bi-format but the world can't be perfect.



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One studio doesn't make a difference though (esp when you got all the other majors on the competition):


I can wait out Universal until they JUMP SHIP or when HD-DVD players are dead cheap. I am not interested in anything Universal until they release some Hitchcock action!


Until then they can go F*** themselves! :p
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