With the exception of House of Flying Daggers, the first Sony batch of BR does absolutely nothing for me (I'm not plunking down 1K in order to watch Hitch and 50 First Dates on hi-def. (What were they thinking?)

But I am *very* curious to see which titles Fox is planning to bring to market. Since they never released a proper anamorphic disc of The Abyss, I'm kinda hoping that's one of them. Anyone know when they're planning to reveal their list?

My guess is they are going to wait until either the players are in stores for sale or until it's close to their release date.

Bits is reporting September. Hope they are wrong.

Keep in mind also that Flying Daggers will be the edited American theatrical version.

Sony does got Robocop and The Terminator in its first titles. Those are both very very worth high def titles.

I've been thinking of movies like this and I've decided not to buy any HD titles that will later be released in a box set. Like Robocop and Terminator. Those are rentals at best until then. I'll stick to non-franchise titles...

Terminator won't have a box set. Each Terminator movie is created by different studio so a Blu-Ray boxed set is unlikely. All three will be on Blu-Ray this summer separately. One will be on HD-DVD too.

You really should add a "Brought to you by Sony" tagline to your posts, Jimmy.

MOD NOTE: Take this as an official warning. Comments like this are not welcome here. -namja

I accuse Sony of lying multiple times and call UMD a waste of money yet I get a reputation as a Sony fanboy.

You're pretty confusing.

You said UMD was a "success" and now "a waste of money". How do you reconcile those two statements?

Its possible to be a success and a waste of money. Just because people buy it doesn't mean they should. In my view UMD offers no benefit and isn't worth its extra price. However it is a success since people did buy the damn things and the format got support from every studio for some period of time. For a format with no real benefit the fact that it didn't instantly die makes it a success in my view. That doesn't mean the format is worthwhile for me to buy.

Damn, that's 2 things that I have to agree with Jimmy on. List of items both successful and a waste of money:

Sports cars
MS Windows
Bose
Creative Memories (although the chicks may disagree)
Food at over $30/plate
Drinking at bars
Lobbying for your favorite presidential candidate (about 50% success rate)
etc.

It reads as if it was Sony wasting the money (i.e. on another failed format):

"I accuse Sony of lying multiple times and call UMD a waste of money..."

So, it's a success for Sony, but a waste of money for you to buy it?

Then the rest of the sentence is confusing:

"...yet I get a reputation as a Sony fanboy."

I figured your statement meant that you shouldn't be called a Sony fanboy because you 1) support Sony sometimes and 2) criticize their failures.

Instead you simply praise Sony for the success and simply state it is a waste of money for you. I don't see how this kind of statement frees you from being labeled a "Sony fanboy".

Useless comments like that brings threads such as this off-track. That goes for you too, awmurray (the post directly above this post). There's no need whatsoever.

Please discuss Fox in this thread, or stay out of this thread.

namja
Moderator

Um, I was the one who *started* this thread. It only took 3 posts for Jimmy to derail it into yet another Sony-is-great! discussion that had absolutely nothing to do with Fox. I was merely responding to that.

Sheesh.

Yah. We want Adam back

You really need to stop reporting things like they are facts....do you have a link for this???

You really should add words like "I think", "Possibly", "Maybe" and "In my opinion" to your vocabulary.

Listen. EVERYTHING regarding Blu-Ray, thus far, has panned out exactly as they said it would. Seriously.

You should stop questioning it.

Seriously.

They've just announced 4th quarter titles. All short movies.

The list: Ice Age 2, X-Men: The Last Stand, Omen 666 and Garfield 2. 24 is mentioned as a possibility. 20 titles in all.