In the wake of the big Warner Bros. announcement to exclusively support Blu-ray, some people may not have noticed New Line Cinema's transition into Blu-ray as well. (Both New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. are owned by Time Warner. PS3 Fanboy is also owned by AOL/Time Warner.) Formerly a supporter of both formats (kind of), New Line has decided to phase out its HD DVD support and go blu. Their only film released on HD DVD was Pan's Labyrinth. So it's not exactly a big deal, since they were basically all about Blu-ray from the start, but it's just another studio to stick in the already feathered cap of Sony.
Some examples of New Line films include The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. We welcome New Line's decision and so should you.
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Time Warner owns both Warner Bros. and New Line so this isn't a big surprise, but with so many studios owned by large companies, people including myself might not realize that with one defection from Warner Bros. from HD DVD, you'd get New Line Cinemas also. LOTR will be huge on Blu Ray, but also it's pretty clear that many of my favorite movies have been released through New Line, so at least for me this news is very good.
Oh this just gets juicier and juicier... Wouldn't The Lord of The Rings be a BIG series to have launched on HD DVD?
By the way just to recap, I said "juicier", not "better". A Sony fascism might not be a very good thing, but only time will tell, presuming everyone doesn't leapfrog to HD DVD ¬_¬
By the way just to recap, I said "juicier", not "better". A Sony fascism might not be a very good thing, but only time will tell, presuming everyone doesn't leapfrog to HD DVD ¬_¬
The Blu-ray Disc Association's Board of Director's currenly consist of:
Apple Computer, Inc.
Dell Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
TDK Corporation
Thomson Multimedia
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney Pictures
Warner Bros. Entertainment
So generally when people talk about "Oh my God Sony is going to take over and things will be terrible" they're generally doing that as a scare tactic and not because there's any real truth behind it. Since the Blu Ray Association is made up of over 180 companies.
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I stand absolutely corrected. But Sony is by far the biggest player in the future of the BDA. One reason is Bravia HD. Even bigger is PlayStation 3; we often fail to remember that PS3 not only runs BD movies, but its whole gaming software basis is on Blu-ray Disc-ROM.
HD DVD is synonymous with movies because of the synonymousity of DVD with movies. BD has (and will further) become hugely synonymous with mass storage. They're robustness and hard finish is a massive factor in protecting disc-based media.
Lord of the Rings on Blu-Ray? Well, I'm sold. Blu-Ray for me it is.
And look out for a 360 accessory that plays Blu-Ray not too distant future.
Because so far Microsoft appear reasonably impartial.
OK, now people have good reasons to get a PS3 now, for more games, and Blu-ray, since everybody is switching over. (We gotta play more than SMG and SSBB.)
Lord of the Rings will be huge, but I would also point out that I wouldn't mind seeing Nightmare on Elmstreet Blu Ray and even Friday the 13th on Blu Ray from New Line.
What a lot of people don't realize is that Sony and Pioneer are the ones who actually started the whole idea behind Blu Ray. According to Wikipedia.org, everyone was on board until some people wanted to used Java-based technology on the Blu Ray format, and some people wanted to use Microsoft's HDi technology to do the same thing.
Finally the majority sided with Java-based tech on the disc so Toshiba and Microsoft jointly announced they'd be working on their own format, and thus HD DVD was born.
This entire war started over what we'd be using to interact with a disc...
all this info can be found on wikipedia under Blu ray
One other thing Cosmic. Blu Ray disc have a special coating on them not because their meant primarily for data storage or to keep info safer for longer. Blu Ray information is stored closer to the surface of the disc thus needing a bit more protection. Otherwise it might be very easy to scratch a disc and make it unplayable.
I don't see what the deal is between the two.
Everyone just pants a face to each format.
HD DVD - Microsoft. RROD anyone?
Blu-Ray - Sony. The company that's cool to hate.
Overall, what does it matter? Both of them are after your money. Both of them will, most likely, get some of your money. Just choose the all around better format. Blu-Ray.
Lord of the Rings will be huge, but I would also point out that I wouldn't mind seeing Nightmare on Elmstreet Blu Ray and even Friday the 13th on Blu Ray from New Line.
What a lot of people don't realize is that Sony and Pioneer are the ones who actually started the whole idea behind Blu Ray. According to Wikipedia.org, everyone was on board until some people wanted to used Java-based technology on the Blu Ray format, and some people wanted to use Microsoft's HDi technology to do the same thing.
Finally the majority sided with Java-based tech on the disc so Toshiba and Microsoft jointly announced they'd be working on their own format, and thus HD DVD was born.
This entire war started over what we'd be using to interact with a disc...
all this info can be found on wikipedia under Blu ray
One other thing Cosmic. Blu Ray disc have a special coating on them not because their meant primarily for data storage or to keep info safer for longer. Blu Ray information is stored closer to the surface of the disc thus needing a bit more protection. Otherwise it might be very easy to scratch a disc and make it unplayable.
I know that, but they are much more robust than a DVD all the same, which is a good, strong means of transporting data. And remember, Blu-ray owes much of its roots to Sony's Professional Disc for DATA
Blu-Ray won me with New Line and Disney. It wasn't even much of a fight to be honest as I am 99% sure I'm getting a PS3 soon.
well to be realistic here about the whole bluray-hddvd war, I've probably said this before.. but whichever way Star Wars goes, thats going to be the winning format I guarantee it
George Lucas is such a money whore, and that's quite evident by how many times he's re-released Star Wars on VHS and DVD. Which format ends up winning, you probably won't see a High Def version of the movies for a number of years. Lucas pretty much does what he wants when he wants, and I'm guessing after the latest Indiana Jones movie he'll be sealed in Carbonite and we'll have to wait for Steven Spielberg to release him again.
George Lucas is such a money whore, and that's quite evident by how many times he's re-released Star Wars on VHS and DVD. Which format ends up winning, you probably won't see a High Def version of the movies for a number of years. Lucas pretty much does what he wants when he wants, and I'm guessing after the latest Indiana Jones movie he'll be sealed in Carbonite and we'll have to wait for Steven Spielberg to release him again.
ROFL That's too funny. And I don't see Star Wars coming to the new formats any time soon. How long did it take for us to get them just on dvd?