For Bourne fans the world over, you're well aware of what
tomorrow is. December 11th, of course, is the day that The Bourne Ultimatum will be landing on DVD / HD DVD, but what you may not realize is that it will also be launching on
VUDU. Granted, we've seen
simultaneous launches before, but this is quite an eventful way for VUDU to get the ball rolling on its HD movie releases. We already knew the firm was
aiming to release HD flicks before the holidays, and just recently it
announced that a number of studios had already signed on. Universal Pictures, however, is going the extra mile by being the first to unveil a downloadable HD version of a major motion picture on the same day the actual disc hits shelves. Notably, The Bourne Ultimatum won't be available as a rental (purchase only), and while it appears that it'll run users $24.99, it sure sounds like the previous two Bourne films will be available "for free during the holiday season."
posted Dec 10th 2007 10:22PM
Any word on when Bourne Ultimatum will make it to Xbox Live? Even though I plan to wangle it as a gift on HD DVD somehow.
Lame. For $25 I would just as soon own the actual disc. If it were on blu-ray and had a nice lossless audio track on it that is.
@h4ldol
The Bourne Ultimatum HD-DVD has a lossless audio track (Dolby TrueHD is lossless), why not just buy that?
http://www.dolby.com/consumer/technology/trueHD.html
http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/1137/bourneultimatum.html
Very interested in downloading it. But, for $25 dollars, when the disc may run you for about the same, give or take a couple of dollars, I rather go for the disc instead. At least I'd have a physical copy of that I won't have to worry of accidentally deleting.
@h4ldol & NodNarb012
Instead of getting involved in the great 2007 HD format war and having to find somewhere to store loads of disks again (next to my dvd collection?) I think I would rather have all my HD movies stored digitally and available on demand via a user friendly interface...I wonder where I could get such a thing?
When you find one with enough storage for all of your HD content that doesn't cost an arm and a leg and you're confident that it won't crash and take all of your movies with it, tell me. I'd be interested in that option, too.
Well if Vudu would take care of the storage for us on *their* servers we would have our solution. Vudu's pricing seems horrible at first glance, but if you could find a way of getting the box cheaper (which is possible if you look around) it becomes a more viable option. My biggest concern would be them going out of business and taking my movies with them....
i cant play the hd version on my 360 hd player and it has the most recent updates its not the disc b/c i played it in an hd player at best buy and all my other hd dvds work fine on my xbox hd player any suggestions? or anyone else having this problem
rickb... Just tried it for the first time tonight in my 360 HD-DVD drive and I can't play it either. Starts a loading screen then freezes after a few seconds. First it wouldn't even read it until I reset the unit, then it asked if I should allow a cookie from a website. Then it froze and multiple resets and such don't help. Disc is clean, console has all the updates (it downloaded an update for this "game" too), and it's a recent Elite console.
Still cracks me up they haven't even put in the ability to say something other then "this game has an update" too..
DVD side works fine in my PS3 though, as does every BD I've tried (about 3x the number of HD so far). :)
Ah.. fixed issue. Well, avoided it anyway. Have to basically disable the network access. Either unplug network so it can't try, or hit OK button to cancel download (in the 2 seconds I have before it seizes up) to get into playback, then disabled network access.
The fact that a movie can do that and hang like that on a completely updated console is so far beyond asinine it makes me dislike HD-DVD even more.