HD DVD international: StudioCanal announces 20 movies
By Richard Lawler 
posted Apr 27th 2006 10:21PM
posted Apr 27th 2006 10:21PM
Quick: Who has the third largest film library in the world?Now if you didn't cheat and read the title then you may have been like me and never heard of StudioCanal until five minutes ago. If you have, the fact that this French distributor has just announced they are releasing 30 HD-DVD titles in the near future is no surprise because you're probably well aware they are the French arm of Vivendi Universal. French HDTV owners can look forward to titles like Million Dollar Baby, Traffic, or The Graduate as well as French flicks like La Haine and Brotherhood of the Wolf.
We've had some updates on Japan-only high definition releases but very little information about Europe. Maybe some of our European readers can tell us what kind of splash next generation DVDs are making over there, or not.
All of this is of little consequence to those of us in the U.S., the real question is when can we start importing foreign HD-DVDs and looking down on people who dislike subtitles?
[Via MovieWeb]
To be honest it hasn't been much buzz at all in Sweden in the normal newpapers or on tv, even though we actually have 1 :O HD Channel, which is good in europe I think lol...
//Adam
In Finland there has been some magazine articles about HDTV, but we totally lack the content for those LCD-TVs we have bought. Helsinki's cable network has provided the HD1 channel for some time but the only way to access it is through PC-setups since there isn't any set-top-boxes available. From satellite we can access the C More HD channel from Canal+.
HD-DVD? Nowhere...
.harri