Buena Vista reveals plans for 50GB Blu-ray movies

Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment added to its enhanced winter Blu-ray release slate today, as Invincible and Pearl Harbor were joined by Touchstone Pictures' Enemy of the State and Flightplan. The company revealed the latter three will all be on dual-layer 50GB discs, as Buena Vista joined Warner, Fox and Paramount in announcing plans for the much-delayed discs this winter. Invincible will include a Blu-ray exclusive HD extra, "Recreating the Vet", while the three others mirror their DVD counterparts, plus an exclusive "Blu-ray Showcase". Flightplan will also add a Blu-scape short "Jet Stream". The two Disney movies are due December 19th, while Enemy of the State and Flightplan will still be released November 21. We're not sure what took them so long, but the Blu-ray camp is obviously trying to make 50GB releases a regular part of the high-def landscape.

All of these titles have been added to our Google Release Calendars

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[DaveBG Posted Oct 24th 2006 5:35AM]

Great news. The 16 movies HD DVD advantage is melting fast :D

[MacTx Posted Oct 24th 2006 8:59AM]

http://www.thedvdwars.com/index.cfm

looks to me everyone of the top 10 hddvd titles outsell the #1 blu-ray title on amazon... by a good margine.

[DaveBG Posted Oct 24th 2006 9:25AM]

What do you expect from hd dvd fansite? To show the truth?
Here is the truth:
http://www.tvpredictions.com/bluraywins102306.htm

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 24th 2006 9:30AM]

Flightplan? Pearl Harbour??

This format war has really made me realize something - just about all the movies I like are made by Universal and Warner...and occasionally Paramount (Old School anyone?). Blu-ray might end up with more total movies in the end...but I'll take quality over quantity any day (and right now, HD-DVD has both).

[MacTx Posted Oct 24th 2006 10:46AM]

perhaps you should take a look for yourself at amazon.com for the sales ranking for each of the top 10 discs from each format. just click on the titles to bring you directly to the amazon product page. the sales ranking is under "product details."

The #10 ranked hd dvd (The Thing) ranks 471 while the #1 blu-ray (Monster House) ranks 2406.

what you posted is more of a fansite then the one i posted. the subject in that article has already been covered here as well. http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/10/23/another-predictor-says-blu-ray-will-be-the-victor/