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New releases on Blu-ray

Darco — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:56:19 +0000

The big news this week is what’s not being released on Blu-ray, as the two biggest titles released today on DVD are not available in HD. The biggest one is easily Cloverfield, which is obviously MIA because Paramount has yet to release any Blu-ray movies since going Red exclusive.

We have two sub-par horror flicks with One Missed Call having an unbelievably low IMDB score of 2.8 out of 10 and Sublime is pretty pitiful itself at 5.2. Your best bet this week is the Global Warming documentary from National Geographic, which looks interesting but is no Planet Earth.

We are only hoping that the next week will be more exciting…

The list for Blu-ray movies now include 508 titles, a the newest are as follow:

Blu-ray

* National Geographic: Six Degrees Could Change the World (National Geographic)
* One Missed Call (Warner)
* The Orphanage (New Line)
* Sublime (Warner)

Source: EngadgetHD

New HD titles

Darco — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:16:29 +0000

HD DVD had quite a run there for the past three weeks, but now it’s over as Blu-ray has an impressive list of new releases and catalog titles. The biggest title this week is easily No Country for Old Men, with its impressive 8.5 IMDB score, and sweeping the Academy Awards a few weeks ago taking just about everything including Best Picture.

Other interesting titles include Dogma, I, Robot and the Independance Day, which is highly anticipated title for many HD owners out there. Statistics are telling us that this week Blu-ray family got bigger by 10 new titles and HD DVD got only 3 new titles, which is mighty fine figure for a dead HD format. HD DVD would be bigger by one more title, Jerry Seinfeld shaped “Bee Movie”, but since Dreamworks discontinued production of HD DVD titles and turned “blue”, we won’t see this film in HD soon.

Total sum now is:
HD DVD 407 vs Blu-ray 471*

* – Blu-ray total does not reflect 32 Paramount titles that were previously officially available, but no more.

Finally, the list:

Blu-ray

Appleseed Ex Machina (Warner)
August Rush (Warner)
Dan in Real Life (Walt Disney)
Dogma (Sony)
Gattaca (Sony)
Hitman (Fox)
I, Robot (Fox)
Independence Day (Fox)
No Country for Old Men (Walt Disney)
Sleuth (2007) (Sony)

HD DVD

Fletch (Universal)
In the Valley of Elah (Warner)
Michael Clayton (Warner)

Izvor: EngadgetHD

Paramount Kills Entire HD DVD Release Schedule, But No Blu Flicks ‘Til Summer

Darco — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:56:02 +0000

There won’t be a soft transition to Blu-ray for Paramountâ€”they’re dropping their whole HD DVD release slate right this second. Their last two movies on the dead format hit Tuesday, even though we won’t see Blu titles from them until this summerâ€”that’s months of lost $$$.

The studio’s final two HD DVD releases will be “Things We Lost in the Fire” and “Into the Wild” both coming March 4.

Read the rest at Gizmodo website.