Warner's Michael Clayton reviewed on Blu-ray and HD DVD
By Darren Murph 
posted Mar 1st 2008 9:44AM
posted Mar 1st 2008 9:44AM
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posted Mar 1st 2008 9:44AM
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"Home Theater Spot found things to be "too dark" in the HD DVD version"
Both have the EXACT same transfer, there will be no difference whatsoever.
Why is this news?
Don't ask questions you don't know the answers to...
The only thing that this tells me is how pathetic movies studios are with their lack of including features that are supposed to be standards of a new format. Both sides seem to barely put any effort into HD like they should.
Studios are only going to bother with extras that will likely sway consumers. Michael Clayton has a totally different demographic than say, Transformers.
There were quite a few unused features of DVD as well. For example, when was the last time you used the "Angle" feature that was supposed to give us multiple views of the same shot? Just because the feature is there doesn't mean it will get used often, regardless of the potential.
@minimalist:
I see DVDs with multiple angles all the time. Just check the back room of your local video rental place (if they have such a room.)
Maybe picture in picture ability and internet connectivity of the much vaunted Profile 2.0 will offer some fantastic new abilities for Blu-ray porn that I can not think of?
The Pelican Brief called, it wants its story back....so did The Firm, The Rainmaker...This movie is a rip off of anything John Grisham only 10 - 15 years later...boring.
What better reason to bye a movie than that it's good? Michael Clayton is a superb movie, and as i understand, the quality of the movie is very good on these disks. I for one will buy a copy. I won't *not* buy a good movie because the extras are sub par. I'm a MOVIE junkie, not an extras junkie :-)
However, i do look forward to when Blu Ray gets its own HD-masters, and not just the "made for the limitations of HD DVD"-masters like this title. Why not make it as good as it can be? Disney Blu Rays are coherently better than Warner Blu Rays because of Warner using HD DVD masters on Blu Ray editions of the same movie.
Yeah, I thought that was funny too. You might pay more for a special edition of a movie you love but who on earth picks up a movie because it has a boatload of extras if they aren't "fans of the specific title"? :-P
Extras are just that... extras. They might offer an interesting diversion, but so often they are just half-baked filler material. Good movies are reason alone enough to buy them.
Perhaps the author of this article is not aware that Blu Ray and HD DVD are technically speaking exactly the same, except for the fact that they are incompatible with each other (and of course that HD DVD has just lost pretty much all of its support, but it's not like we need reminding of that now is it?).
Ah, but until retailers throw away their entire stock of players, in front of the world, and until they and/or Toshiba give full refunds PLUS the difference toward a Blu-Ray player, the hatchet job must continue!