I got backordered from WB too. This is BS because I ordered it before people who's copies already shipped. What happened to first come, first served?

I got this too. I'm so pissed I could spit.

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Looks amazing on HD-DVD (through the XBOX 360, received from Amazon).

At the very beginning, I got kind of an uncomfortable feeling like I was Edward G Robinson at the end of Soylent Green.

Irritating the extras aren't included - my guess is that's to keep the price competitive.

Ok someone over at AVS posted that if you have multiple preorders that those preorders will ship at the same time as the last pre order you have in your cart........So if you have PE and Matrix both will ship with t he Matrix instead of shipping separately (this is for preorders only)....If this was a single order then I would call and see what happened as others who ordered as recently as last week had theirs shipped.

Just got the notice that my Blu-Ray copy of PE shipped today. Hopefully it'll be here before the weekend.

My take as always is that it usually pays off to pre-order from Amazon as soon as a title gets posted, just to get into the queue early... plenty of time to cancel later if you end up not wanting it.

Just finished the 1st disc on BD, great, great stuff.

Yea, that is probably the issue.. I know that there have been updates related to the HD player.

Once you connect it to the net it should prompt you automatically to download the system updates.

Give it a try and let me know if it works

Thanks Sayguh,
Well I connected it my 360 and HD player to the net, and nothing came up... I went online with my system like a month and a half ago to get the TMNT Live Arcade Game and download a few trailers... I cant remember if I updated then or not. I went over to AVSforum's and Im not the only one who is having problems with getting PE to work on the 360 Add-On... hopefully a solution will present itself soon! I am dying to watch this set and dont want to have to go out and buy another player...

Hmm, did you try playing it while being connected to Live?

If that fails I would call xbox tech support and see what they have to say

PE is the last title left in this order and was the only pre-order.

I ordered the Matrix under a separate order, that being the only pre-order as well, and it is also the last title left.

Ok well it was indeed an update I needed... I didnt know I had to have an HD disc in the player for the prompt to come up... i thought if I was just conneccted it would come up... works great now! Best looking thing Ive ever seen

They only update when you put the movie in because they don't want to send a bunch of updates to people that don't have the movie and fill up their hard drive space.

My Blu-Ray Planet Earth looks fantastic!

I had Planet Earth with Scanner Darkly (which I received before street date) on one order and Matrix, Fountain, and Iwo Jima on a different order. I will call them soon because I was very eager for this title and I really think it's unfair that someone who ordered 8 days ago received their copy, but people who ordered a month ago are left with some BS backorder slip.

Any reviews for this yet, especially comparing the 3 different versions?

I'm reviewing the SD-DVD version, which I should have posted by Sunday or so. The video quality is a bit disappointing, but the bonus feature help to make up for it. I don't think anyone received screeners for the HD-DVD or Blu-ray versions, so I doubt you'll see them anytime soon.

Thanks for the heads up, looking forward to your review.

I'm hoping the SD is good enough to satisfy me, I'm trying to resist buying an HD-DVD player yet. But Planet Earth in HD is so tempting.

Planet Earth HD-dvd review

Planet Earth Blu-ray review

Now's the time to do it. Don't waste money on the standard def version. This show was made for high definition. Now is the best time to make the jump.

You should go get it now so that you have a full weekend to enjoy it

But the extras that were left off the HD versions are really good. Especially those 10-minute diaries at the end of each episode. I can kind of see as to not including the two and a half hour doc about "the future" on the HD versions, but there's no excuse for not including those diaries - especially since they aired in HD on Discovery.

I think he meant DVD talk reviewers..

I just added it to my Netfllix Queue. I noticed they have all three versions available.

Same here. Just arrived this morning and I've already watched a couple of the Blu-Ray discs. The caves episode is absolutely jaw-dropping on Blu-Ray.

Oh man, I'm backordered HARDCORE on Amazon for the HD-DVD version. See you guys next month!