More good news!

Looks like there are some other BD-only titles making their way to HD DVD!

Underworld
Saw
Point Break....and others!

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8...erworldyh2.jpg

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Underworld

My thoughts exactly...

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY!!!!! AAAHHHH! *dies and goes to heaven*

This is GREAT news!

but how can they get away with it?

Also--how is the quality of these transfers, is it a dupe of the blu ray just transferred to HD-DVD or is it something else from some other studio?

I'm not too much interested in owning Underworld in HD, partly becuase i already shelled out for 2 different regular DVD versions of it, but i would be tempted to get the HD DVD just as an FU to Blu-Ray.

Different studios control the content in other regions of the world. Just like T2 will be available in HD-DVD in January in France. The fact that HD-DVD does not have region coding on their current titles is a huge + for them, IMHO.

I thought that was coming out in March?

but is it a new transfer or the same as the blu ray one? Also can we expect these to be US theactrical versions (english w/o forced subtitles)?

Different transfers from different companies. I think they're mostly VC1's.

The Leopard!!!

This is starting to get REALLY fun now.

What is that Ben Affleck movie? I speak Spanish, but I can't figure out what the hell it is. The Spanish title translates to: Diary of the Aggressive Executive.

'Man About Town'

If every title is available somewhere on HD-DVD this could sink blu ray

Thanks, Giles. Did this movie ever come out in the U.S.? I never heard of it before.

according to imdb:

USA - 7 February 2006 (Santa Barbara Film Festival)
Netherlands - 8 June 2006
Spain - 9 June 2006
Turkey - 16 June 2006
Russia - 3 August 2006
Australia - 31 August 2006
Greece - 23 September 2006 (DVD premiere)
Belgium - 27 September 2006
Brazil - 29 September 2006
Thailand - 12 October 2006
Mexico - 13 October 2006
USA - 13 February 2007 (DVD premiere)

if you check IMDB, it was just at a festival earlier this year...and that's it.

Yeah, um, HD DVDs released in Europe outside the UK will have burned-in subtitles in the native language (in this case Spanish). I'll pass.

Not necessarily. Someone on avs confirmed that the German HD-DVDs of King Kong and Running Scared do not have burned-in subtitles, and they even give you the option of choosing the language for the disc menus.

not true.

UNTERGANG!
Good, Bad and the Ugly!!!

Holy cow. This is awesome.

That picture shows Underworld Evolution, not Underworld. Nevertheless, I may have to import it and The Good The Bad And The Ugly.

Man, that would be awesome if we could get our hands on some foreign edition of the DVDs - only if the subtitles weren't burned in.

And yeah...Underworld...

Burned in subtitles aren't going to be an issue. Everyone can just let that rest.

Wait, the subtitles are burned in?


j/k