Hi EQC,

I just checked out the features on the disc that came up. And frankly speaking this is the best BD-Live usuage I have ever seen. I really hope that also other distributors will come up with features like this instead of boring trailer downloads.

Frenzy

@kevin

Hi Kevin. Perfect summary. This does also represent my opinion of the current situation. I do also really hope that Foxn / Disney will also see that HD DVD is giving them a hugh chance to release fantastic titles with great PQ and features now.

Cheers,

Frenzy

@Paul Fernandez
Hi Paul, sorry to write nonsens in my sentence "They did promised the marketing promised the BDA a made."

I just wanted to say that BDA is doing a very prominent marketing and it is hard to really find out what is true and what is marketing. When BDA announced BD it mostly described the hugh features that will be possible. This might be one of the arguments to convince some studios to only support BD. But these features are still not possible although the cheaper and even more finally developped HD DVD format can do.

Yes BD-J will be great but are the advantages (especially for movie releases) such big that this excuses for the massive delay, different player features, optional ethernet, optional PiP, ...). This all will more than necessary confuse the consumers again. And - a really important point - the studios will pay much more for the replication of BD instead of BD also in the future. Is this worse the mininal additional potential features of BD-J ? Movie fans want to see the movie with some nice extras. If they want to play a game they will use their games consoles or PCs instead of playing boring BD-J games.

What do you think ?

Cheers,

Frenzy

It shows again that the much cheaper HD DVD format is still far ahead of the BD format regarding the development status. That what BD promised 1 year ago was already possible with HD DVD players of the first generation release 04/2006.

Its really a shame that some major studios (e.g. Fox, Disney) did confirm their support at a very early stage. They did promised the marketing promised the BDA a made. That was a mistake. HD DVD is a great format for movie releases. No real need for BD-J.

The exclusive support of some studios to BD only will cost them a lot of money in a long term. I am not sure why they did not made a simple calculation on replication price costs. Also today BD is at lease 2-3 times more expensive in replication than an HD DVD and this will also be the case in 2 years! If a major studio will release 20 Mio. HD discs for example in 2009 this will cause a hugh lost if they decided to use the more expensive format.

Frankly speaking I do not know why the HD DVD PRG is not able to propper communicate the many advantages of their format for movie/audio purposes.

Anyway - BD has also many good thinks, but HD DVD is ready NOW, it's CHEAPER for the Studios and it's CHEAPER for the consumer without any major differences in interactivity or quality.

I think Sony did made a good job to convince the major studios for BD and make them blind for HD DVD.

Cheers,

Frenzy