March 1, 200619 yr NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Pictures on Tuesday said it aims to deliver its new Blu-ray DVD format to U.S. stores on May 23 to coincide with the entry of compatible disc players, a new step in an industry war for control of home movie viewing. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and MGM Home Entertainment will first release eight Blu-ray titles, followed by another eight in mid-June. The first movie titles include "50 First Dates," "The Fifth Element," "Hitch" and "House of Flying Daggers." Blu-ray is locked in a multibillion-dollar standards war against a rival DVD format known as HD DVD. The technology companies supporting HD DVD, championed by Toshiba Corp. (6502.T), plan to start rolling out movie titles and disc players in March. Each side hopes to reignite a sagging $24 billion home video market with new players and discs that offer greater capacity and interactive features. Sony Pictures, a division of Japan's Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). (6758.T), earlier this month disclosed pricing for Blu-ray format discs which amounts to a premium of about 15 percent to 20 percent to the current DVD standard. The company said on Tuesday that its target delivery date would coincide with the launch that day of the first commercially available Blu-ray disc player by Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.K). Other Blu-ray disc players are scheduled for release to market from Sony and Pioneer. ref OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
March 1, 200619 yr I read about this earlier today. Aside from T2 the release line up of BDs just plain sucks.
March 1, 200619 yr The article fails to mention the first Blue-Ray compatible players will cost about $1k. And I find it kind of funny I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying Are the best I've ever had
March 1, 200619 yr Um... HELLO! New tech. Of course it will be expensive and will require higher end televisions to get full benefits. Harvey
March 1, 200619 yr Actually I think that the PS3 price will be lower in order to compete with the other consoles and have a greater incentive for people to buy it. Why by a X Box 360 and a Blu Ray player when you can get the PS3 for half the price? Harvey
March 1, 200619 yr What Hades said. The choice facing SONY is whether to stick the limited numbers into PS3's or regular players. I have to agree with Volourn. Bioware is pretty much dead now. Deals like this kills development studios. 478327[/snapback]
March 1, 200619 yr It depends on the release dates of the prespective machines. In areas that the PS3 will make an early entrance, like Japan, you will need less Blu Ray Players than you would in an area, like Europe, who are getting the console at a much later date. Harvey
March 1, 200619 yr Since Toshiba's HD-DVD players will cost around 500$, i'm not really dying for a BR Player.
March 1, 200619 yr NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sony Pictures on Tuesday said it aims to deliver its new Blu-ray DVD format to U.S. stores on May 23 to coincide with the entry of compatible disc players, a new step in an industry war for control of home movie viewing. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and MGM Home Entertainment will first release eight Blu-ray titles, followed by another eight in mid-June. The first movie titles include "50 First Dates," "The Fifth Element," "Hitch" and "House of Flying Daggers." Blu-ray is locked in a multibillion-dollar standards war against a rival DVD format known as HD DVD. The technology companies supporting HD DVD, championed by Toshiba Corp. (6502.T), plan to start rolling out movie titles and disc players in March. Each side hopes to reignite a sagging $24 billion home video market with new players and discs that offer greater capacity and interactive features. Sony Pictures, a division of Japan's Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). (6758.T), earlier this month disclosed pricing for Blu-ray format discs which amounts to a premium of about 15 percent to 20 percent to the current DVD standard. The company said on Tuesday that its target delivery date would coincide with the launch that day of the first commercially available Blu-ray disc player by Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.K). Other Blu-ray disc players are scheduled for release to market from Sony and Pioneer. ref <{POST_SNAPBACK}> *Yawn* ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ............................. And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth unto Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be, In Nomine Patris, et Fili, et Spiritus Sancti.
March 1, 200619 yr ...and where's the PS3? "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy
March 1, 200619 yr Hee hee... I agree with Surr that their line of movies leaves much to be desired. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'd so buy an HD copy of Fifth Element. The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity.
March 2, 200619 yr Ill switch when i can get a quality player for 100 bones(USD) and they start to over take the dvd's at the video rentals. Always outnumbered, never out gunned! Unreal Tournament 2004 Handle:Enlight_2.0 Myspace Website! My rig
March 2, 200619 yr Ill switch when i can get a quality player for 100 bones(USD) and they start to over take the dvd's at the video rentals. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll switch when I'm dead. I'll have a Blu-Ray movie played at my funeral....hehe. You know what I hate? I hate this push to make everything more expensive. HDTV my arse. BluRay my foot. If they stop making regular DVD's, I'll stop renting and buying movies. I have more fun here and on my 1956 Yaesu FT-101E HAM radio than in front of a TV anyway. Edited March 2, 200619 yr by SSgtSniper And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth unto Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be, In Nomine Patris, et Fili, et Spiritus Sancti.
March 2, 200619 yr Ill switch when i can get a quality player for 100 bones(USD) and they start to over take the dvd's at the video rentals. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll switch when I'm dead. I'll have a Blu-Ray movie played at my funeral....hehe. You know what I hate? I hate this push to make everything more expensive. HDTV my arse. BluRay my foot. If they stop making regular DVD's, I'll stop renting and buying movies. I have more fun here and on my 1956 Yaesu FT-101E HAM radio than in front of a TV anyway. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm so switching to Blu-Ray... as soon as I get an HDTV. I've seen the difference between DVD and HD and its glorious. The area between the balls and the butt is a hotbed of terrorist activity.
March 2, 200619 yr Author ...and where's the PS3? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> They can't release it until the technology is available: this is the first step of the process. Ill switch when i can get a quality player for 100 bones(USD) and they start to over take the dvd's at the video rentals. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll switch when I'm dead. I'll have a Blu-Ray movie played at my funeral....hehe. You know what I hate? I hate this push to make everything more expensive. HDTV my arse. BluRay my foot. If they stop making regular DVD's, I'll stop renting and buying movies. I have more fun here and on my 1956 Yaesu FT-101E HAM radio than in front of a TV anyway. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's a luddite! Burn the witch! OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
March 2, 200619 yr What Sony really needs to do is create a way to play the UMD movies on a TV. Right now they only work on the PSP. I heard someone was working on a way to port it, but an outside company will probably fail to keep the picture quality high. Right now there is little reason to buy UMD movies. They are too expensive and not everyone wants to squint at the PSP screen. If I can play them on the TV, suddenly I have two reasons to buy them.
March 2, 200619 yr Do be careful, this house is protected by Beretta. And shepherds we shall be, for Thee, my Lord, for Thee. Power hath descended forth from Thy hand, that our feet may swiftly carry out Thy command. So we shall flow a river forth unto Thee, and teeming with souls shall it ever be, In Nomine Patris, et Fili, et Spiritus Sancti.
March 2, 200619 yr Author Some geek with crack it. Just like DivX. OBSCVRVM PER OBSCVRIVS ET IGNOTVM PER IGNOTIVS OPVS ARTIFICEM PROBAT
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