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Wish the title selection was a litter better, though.

JET

PS: How weird is it that Corpse Bride was on the original HD-DVD demo disk but has only been announced for release on Blu-Ray?]]>Aug 31st 2006 11:04AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/
Awesome.]]>Aug 31st 2006 11:06AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Aug 31st 2006 11:36AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Aug 31st 2006 11:32AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Aug 31st 2006 11:34AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/
Even though i own a very nice two disc extended special edition of Kingdom of Heaven already, i will definitely pick this one up as well, and maybe eBay the other, or hand it off to my sister, who seems to like Orlando Bloom an aweful lot for some reason.]]>Aug 31st 2006 11:46AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Aug 31st 2006 11:50AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/
As for the titles themselves... I like 'Behind Enemy Lines' but would only rent the others... except League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (which is crap).]]>Aug 31st 2006 12:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Aug 31st 2006 12:43PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/
HD-DVD can already have long movies with great PQ (via VC-1), interactivity (iHD), and lossless audio (DTS TrueHD) without being that expensive. You shouldn't have to pay more for BD to get the equivalent quality of HD-DVD, they should be the same price.

If the PQ and AQ are at the same level, it makes no sense at all for one format to charge more for software and twice as much for the hardware. ]]>Aug 31st 2006 1:23PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Aug 31st 2006 1:25PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Aug 31st 2006 2:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Aug 31st 2006 4:00PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/
This whole format war is pissing me off. I'm not jumping in line for either one. But where the hell does these guys get off raising the near two decade old "standard price" for a movie to $40 just so you can get higher res, slightly improved audio and a bunch of extras that most people never watch anyway. ughh...

I'd go down on a long man for a quality dual format player. Then I would spend the next month shitting in envelopes and mailing them to the key backers of both formats in protest of their senseless dividing of the market for the sake of being able to MAYBE say "the winnars are we!".

It'd be one thing if there were actual good movies on both formats (HDDVD does have the lead here, by a mile). But 94.234265% of these movies are pure worthless shit. ]]>Aug 31st 2006 4:21PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/
Not entirely correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VC-1

"Although widely considered to be Microsoft's product, there are actually 15 other companies in the VC-1 patent pool (as of April 2006)."]]>Aug 31st 2006 4:46PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/
I do give props to Fox for using DTS MA, but that really sucks for people with the Samsung BD player.]]>Aug 31st 2006 4:48PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Aug 31st 2006 4:51PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/
What I really can't wait to see is a relatively short movie encoded in MPEG-2 on 50 GB. Because MPEG-4 and VC-1 aren't "better" (nor is MPEG-2) but they work differently. The increase in quality is not even with the bit rate. Eventually, the increase becomes neglegible, and the "less efficient" codec (MPEG-2) actually surpasses the "more efficient" one (MPEG-4 or VC-1). And yes, this takeover actually occurs in the realm of Blu-ray's ability!

Let's just hope that dual-layer firmware upgrade happens real soon, or you'll be seeing Samsung BD players all over Ebay.]]>Aug 31st 2006 10:18PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/http://hd.engadget.com/2006/08/31/fox-announces-first-blu-ray-releases-8-titles-bd-j-mpeg-4-avc/Sep 5th 2006 7:51PM