First Blu-ray Movie Titles Announced 375
JorgeDeLaCancha writes "Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and MGM Home Entertainment have recently announced the release of the first titles on the Blu-Ray media coinciding with the Blu-Ray hardware release in the spring. Some of the films to be released include classics such as "The Fifth Element" and "Robocop" to more modern films such as "Black Hawk Down." Other corporations, such as Fox, have announced similar plans."
"Nearly 50" HD-DVD titles also announced (Score:5, Informative)
Sadly (Score:3, Informative)
nothing pissed me off more than buying the family guy dvd and having them tell me that it is bad to share movies. THANKS FUCKS, I JUST PAID $12.99 FOR THE FUCKING DVD.
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By some definitions... (Score:5, Informative)
I liked it a lot but also have trouble thinking of it as a classic science fiction movie in the same way Aliens is a classic... but it is pretty unique and it has a lot of elements that show off sound and video features quite well.
Re:Screw 'em. (Score:3, Informative)
Though I do agree that the quality difference isn't enough to re-invest in all my movies.
Re:The vicious cycle (Score:3, Informative)
Lot's of legal issues on that one. I'm waiting with bated breath myself. Here's [brmovie.com] a page that's tracking the (little) progress that is made on it. Guaranteed sales, don't know what their problem is.
Re:Screw 'em. (Score:3, Informative)
So that's at least a 5-fold increase in number of pixels per field. If you compare a DVD to a Blu-ray or HD-DVD of the same movie side by side, on a TV that can at least display 720p, you're absolutely going to be able to see a noticable difference.
Re:Picture quality of Robocop? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Screw 'em. (Score:2, Informative)
1080p (though this is rarely supported in next-gen disc formats): 2,073,600 pixels
The vast majority of films in major motion picture studios' catalogs run at 24fps (NTSC) or 25fps (PAL). It's not unlikely that you'll get support for 1080p24 even if you don't get 1080p60. The interlaced formats are mostly for a video camera.
So that's at least a 5-fold increase in number of pixels per field.
But how much of an increase or decrease in fields/frames per second?
Re:Future problems? (Score:2, Informative)
No, I don't mean the lame simulated HDR in newer games. I mean the real thing.
IF this tech becomes big it'll a bigger jump in quality than standard def -> high def is.
For further reading see:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/10/04/brigh
This is a review of the only HDR capable monitor in production.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~heidrich/Projects/HDRDispla
This discusses two methods for creating a HDR capable display and why you would want to. The display in the earlier link uses one of these methods.
Re:The vicious cycle (Score:1, Informative)