General Blu-ray News and Discussion - PART 4
01-08-08, 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
The Matrix and most of the other IME titles are "ready to go", but they are waiting for more 1.1 players to hit the market.
01-08-08, 07:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
DobyBlue, who works for Panasonic and has some inside sources, says that he was told by his Warner contact that The Matrix and most of the other IME titles are "ready to go", but they are waiting for more 1.1 players to hit the market.
I will just wait now and hope they only release one version on Blu-ray, which should just be the "Ultimate" version with all the extras since they have 20GB of extra space on the discs....I seriously doubt they'll do any kind of re-encode for the video, though they might put PCM audio instead of the TrueHD the HD DVD releases had.....
01-08-08, 08:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema
Here's some possible news about Panasonic players.
Take this one with a grain of you know what, but an AVS member posted in the BD30 owners thread that he was at CES and was told by a Panasonic rep that the BD30 would receive a firmware update this year that will enable TrueHD decoding. possibly DTS MA as well. He was told the BD50 is very close in design, and it does look almost identical to the BD30.
The BD50 is supposed to be priced slightly above the BD30, so prices floating around are $549 - $599.
Take this one with a grain of you know what, but an AVS member posted in the BD30 owners thread that he was at CES and was told by a Panasonic rep that the BD30 would receive a firmware update this year that will enable TrueHD decoding. possibly DTS MA as well. He was told the BD50 is very close in design, and it does look almost identical to the BD30.
The BD50 is supposed to be priced slightly above the BD30, so prices floating around are $549 - $599.
01-08-08, 08:57 PM
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Just got done with 3:10 to Yuma and what a fantastic movie! It's taken Tombstone's place as my top Western. The PQ and AQ is out of this world. Kudos to Lionsgate for doing a good job with this title.
01-08-08, 09:49 PM
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Originally Posted by tonymontana313
Just got done with 3:10 to Yuma and what a fantastic movie! It's taken Tombstone's place as my top Western.
01-08-08, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by vcuram
Have you seen The Wild Bunch or Unforgiven (both available on BD)? Both are far superior films to the 3:10 remake and Tombstone, in my opinion.
01-08-08, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by vcuram
Have you seen The Wild Bunch or Unforgiven (both available on BD)? Both are far superior films to the 3:10 remake and Tombstone, in my opinion.
01-08-08, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by vcuram
Have you seen The Wild Bunch or Unforgiven (both available on BD)? Both are far superior films to the 3:10 remake and Tombstone, in my opinion.
01-08-08, 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Wick
Why was the Dreamgirls Showstopper Edition 2-disc put out of print?
01-08-08, 10:43 PM
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Originally Posted by RockStrongo
I think Unforgiven is the greatest western of all time. I love Tombstone and The Wild Bunch too. Im looking forward to seeing 310 this week. I also really liked Open Range...I thought it was very underrated. I bet we will see it on BD soon.
01-08-08, 10:45 PM
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I just watched the AB/Starz copy of Halloween on my projector. Despite the non-approved coloring issues I was really impressed with how it looks.
For the first time ever I noticed that during the "girls look behind the bushes scene" there are two guys directly in the background on a porch watching them film.
For the first time ever I noticed that during the "girls look behind the bushes scene" there are two guys directly in the background on a porch watching them film.
01-08-08, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by abintra
Definitely put The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford on your radar also, if you haven't already.
01-08-08, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by bunkaroo
Wick,
Amazon still has Dreamgirls (and many other Paramount Blu-Ray's) in stock. Not Marketplace sellers, Amazon itself.
Amazon still has Dreamgirls (and many other Paramount Blu-Ray's) in stock. Not Marketplace sellers, Amazon itself.
01-08-08, 11:14 PM
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Originally Posted by RockStrongo
Yeah, I snagged a few of them (mainly the Mission Impossible movies).
01-08-08, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by bunkaroo
Funny, I just ordered those too, along with Sleepy Hollow and Sky Captain.
01-09-08, 12:39 AM
#596
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Originally Posted by DthRdrX
Is there a Blu-Ray Paramount sale that I'm missing? 
01-09-08, 03:39 AM
#598
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Originally Posted by Drexl
No, they just figure there might be a run on their titles with the format war practically over. I was wondering about this too, if I should get a disc or two while supplies last. Even if they switch, will they re-press those titles right away or wait?
01-09-08, 06:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Drexl
No, they just figure there might be a run on their titles with the format war practically over. I was wondering about this too, if I should get a disc or two while supplies last. Even if they switch, will they re-press those titles right away or wait?
Yep, this plus cancelling some HD DVD pre-orders freed up some of my 10% discount again, so I used it for those discs before Amazon took it away.
01-09-08, 07:45 AM
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Originally Posted by bunkaroo
Wick,
Amazon still has Dreamgirls (and many other Paramount Blu-Ray's) in stock. Not Marketplace sellers, Amazon itself.
Amazon still has Dreamgirls (and many other Paramount Blu-Ray's) in stock. Not Marketplace sellers, Amazon itself.
I just really need to get the Mission Impossible: Ultimate Missions Collection on Blu-ray. I had an unopened copy of that on HD-DVD, but I returned it for store credit. It was purchased over a year ago, haha.
