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About. Fucking. Time.

Also, I don't think I'll be picking up Cloverfied. Shakey-cam and 120hz TV's with motion-enhancer all the way up do not equal good things.]]>Apr 29th 2008 11:30PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 9:22AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 29th 2008 11:27PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 29th 2008 11:52PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 12:00AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/
Don't be too hard on them. Apparently there are serious replication capacity issues right now, that should be worked out by the end of the year when more BD manufacturing capacity comes online.]]>Apr 30th 2008 12:44AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/
I have a feeling that Transformers will be in the next announcement. Don't think Dreamworks isn't anxious to see that fly off the shelves, as well as Michael Bay!]]>Apr 30th 2008 1:01AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 1:04AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/
Finally.]]>Apr 30th 2008 2:29AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 2:48AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/
In fact TWBB is the one film on the horizon I am actually interested in owning on Blu-ray. I have already purchased the 12 or so that I care about now and other than one or two titles the BD release roster for the next 7 months looks pretty dull.

Maybe I just don't get the demographics of who is buying Blu-ray but my gut tells me the reason Blu-ray sales are so meager right now is because the studios need to stop dicking around with re-releasing crap like Alien V. Predator for the second or third time in a year and unleash the big guns.]]>Apr 30th 2008 9:23AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/disguy
Wait, why do people want to see There Will Be Blood in HD?
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Because the current Blu-ray catalogue aimed at the 'PS3 demographic' is so pi$$-poor to anyone over the age of, say, 12- 15?

lol
]]>Apr 30th 2008 10:11AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 5:00AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 8:16AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/
If they do a (completely bloated, unnecessary & wasteful) uncompressed audio track then you've little room to get anything much of an 'advantage'.

Some people have either a highly selective or no memory.

Paramount always did encode Blu-ray to supposedly take advantage of it's capacity over HD DVD.

Guess what?

There were no real discernible differences.]]>Apr 30th 2008 9:03AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 9:24AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/
Some people just don't want to get this.

With all the high def codecs (excepting clunky old ancient MPEG2) a higher bit-rate gains nothing except noise over a certain threshold rate.

MPEG2 is the exception (because it is relatively ancient) and it needs the size and bitrates to get close to the quality of the other 2 codecs (VC1 & AVC) which can happily produce excellent results at much lower bitrates.

Blu-ray's bigger capacity was always all about merely trying to make MPEG2 a credible option for high def use.

Anyone who wants to pretend that Blu-ray looked or sounded better than HD DVD is merely deluding themselves.

(just as it's a total lie to claim that Blu-ray always operates at it's max potential anyways)]]>Apr 30th 2008 10:08AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 9:01AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 10:15AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 10:56AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 11:29AMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/
Blu-ray was not better. But it was not the backwards hillbilly of HD you continually distort it to be.

Get over it. HD-DVD is dead. Sorry.]]>Apr 30th 2008 12:16PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/LMAO.....are you 5 or something?

Actually Eric HD DVD & Blu-ray mandated the exact same 3 codecs, VC1, AVC & MPEG2.

Blu-ray uses MPEG2 31.3% of the time.
They use VC-1 27.8% of the time.
Hell they only barely use the BD50 disc on just over half (52.1%) of the time.
http://www.blu-raystats.com/

It was the use of MPEG2 that led to the original Blu-ray releases looking so bad that they had to be redone (think 'The 5th Element').

MPEG2 is in fact the ancient backward hillbilly of the 3 codecs.......which is not to say that (if they really stretch themselves & make the effort) it can't look OK, a handful of examples show it can.....but it's a hell of a lot less likely than with the other 2 codecs.

Nevertheless what I said about bit-rates etc is quite correct.
Sadly the infantile simplistic fools who think a higher bit-rate guarantees a better a/v performance of itself and in every instance are just plain wrong.

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Anyway blu-ray.com has a fuller list of Paramount titles:

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1253&page=0

There's only a couple that I would fancy off that list but it looks like Paramount are trying to catch up fast.]]>Apr 30th 2008 12:42PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 5:26PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 1:08PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/http://hd.engadget.com/2008/04/29/paramount-officially-rejoins-the-blu-ray-camp-on-may-20th/Apr 30th 2008 3:49PM