Bandai Entertainment and Bandai Visual USA have been two different companies up until very, very recently.
Bandai Visual has been doing Blu-ray from the start, and dropped HD DVD quickly outside of their release of Freedom.
Bandai Entertainment has never released any HD DVD and only made the announcement or Ghost in the Shell 2 some months after the format war ended.
Bandai Visual did NOT finish out Freedom; the seventh and final episode will NOT be put out on HD DVD. It will be included in the new blu-ray box due out this fall and on DVD sometime next year.
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Once again, this kind of story is done wrong.
Bandai Entertainment and Bandai Visual USA have been two different companies up until very, very recently.
Bandai Visual has been doing Blu-ray from the start, and dropped HD DVD quickly outside of their release of Freedom.
Bandai Entertainment has never released any HD DVD and only made the announcement or Ghost in the Shell 2 some months after the format war ended.
Bandai Visual did NOT finish out Freedom; the seventh and final episode will NOT be put out on HD DVD. It will be included in the new blu-ray box due out this fall and on DVD sometime next year.
Where did you get the info that they aren't releasing vol 7 on HD-DVD? Last I heard, they still had it planned to be released in August.