Cool...ill pick it up.

I wonder with all these additions to their press website today, if they are planning to make a huge announcement soon?? Lets hope.

I will gladly buy Dirty Harry, The Searchers, and Caddyshack.

I dunnooooo...all these older titles, I'd have to hear really convincing reviews. There's room for speculation as to how good they can look.

That makes no sense. Next you're going to tell me only movies after 1995 will look good.

Yeah, supposedly Blazing Saddles is a helluva good looking HD-DVD....Im sure they can do a fine job on older titles.

I'm not sure why you would be skeptical of the older films, Blazing Saddles looks picture perfect to me.

I think I just need to buy it.....I can always dvdplanet my se version of the dvd.

I've got Blazing Saddles right now from Netflix and I'm too lazy to send it back and just buy it. The transfer is outstanding, regardless of age, it holds up there against everything else I've seen.

I think Cinemaddiction's concern is that the studio may not be putting in the necessary restoration effort on some of these movies that have traditionally not been treated well over the years.

I'll wait for him to voice that concern.

2 great examples of how good "old" movies can look in HD are the Blazing Saddles disc and the HDNet presentation of 2001. Both look incredible.

The older films are still going to look better. They won't look as good as a new film, but that's no reason not to bother with them. If you aren't going to buy something because it doesn't look as good as your best stuff looks, you wouldn't buy any older films-on any format.

I hope they've cleaned up Caddyshack, because the print they transferred for the (widescreen) DVD was very dirty.

Yeah, if Caddy Shack actually gets some kind of restoration I will pick it up, but if its the same awful print as the DVD version there is no reason to upgrade.

I'll definately be picking up House of Wax.

Dan,
Why are all the links for the recently announced Warner HD DVDs from your site gone now? Did Warner make you remove them?

I can't confirm or deny the existence of those news items

In this matter, patience will be rewarded.

I see.

From The Digital Bits this morning:

"We've also got a bit of new HD news for you this morning. Warner has revealed that they'll soon be releasing Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket on Blu-ray Disc format. The exact street date is still TBA, but it's nice to see another title that we'll be able to compare on both Blu-ray and HD-DVD. And speaking of that other HD format (the one in the RED case), Warner has also revealed that they're readying the 2005 House of Wax remake for release on HD-DVD. We expect official details on both releases very soon."

Only a slight bit of bias there (even if he's kidding...). Plus, to people who don't come to forums like this one, it sounds like the only upcoming HD DVD Warner release will be House of Wax, as opposed to the other four classic films that are being prepared for release (The Searchers, Dirty Harry, Caddyshack, The Dirty Dozen). Sometimes TDB is a great resource for news, and sometimes....

Yea, I don't even bother with that biased site.

Hi-res packaging for all of Lionsgate's upcoming BR's have been posted.

Fixed

That "beyond high-definition" makes me want to puke.

Fast and the Furious 3 - Sept 26th confirmed

http://www.dvdactive.com/news/releas...kyo-drift.html

One of the first DVDs I bought was Fletch... simply because it was widescreen and my laserdisc was 4:3. It would be a nice touch if one of my first HD-DVDs was a cleaned-up Caddyshack.

It's the little things that add up. As a laserdisc owner, I was happy ignoring DVD for quite some time in the early days (1997-early '99). It was the really trivial things that started adding up... Halloween II, Fletch, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, The Black Hole, Condorman... these may not be the greatest movies ever made, but they're ones I really enjoy. And the DVD editions convinced me to add a player to my existing LD-centric configuration.

Reservoir Dogs coming to BD on Oct 24...

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh..._This_Fall/154