Amazon listing Star Wars Trilogies on BD
05-16-07 | 02:54 PM
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Amazon listing Star Wars Trilogies on BD
I'm just passing along the info, I am highly skeptical myself:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B000PMLFRA
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B000PMLFRA
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B000PMLFRA
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...SIN=B000PMLFRA
05-16-07 | 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by jiggawhat
If this comes out, which is highly improbable but possible, this probably would end the war in my eyes.
Hardly.
The vast majority of consumers who have not yet gotten in to High Def players have no idea about these matters. They will see cheaper players and buy them for their increasingly affordable HD sets. Blu-Ray MUST get their player prices down quite a lot further before they can hope at hitting the mainstream and potentially ending anything. Neither side is mainstream yet so any conclusions before that time are silly.
There is a huge difference between the demographic that will pay $400+ for a player and those who will not get in to a HD player for more than $300. It is the latter group that matters the most in the format war. What you or I would base our own format decision on is relatively meaningless.
For me, I chose HD-DVD. And Star Wars isn't even a title I would purchase again in HD if it came out on HD-DVD because my upconverted version looks fantastic as it is. I just watched episode III the other day and didn't feel an itch for an HD copy.
05-16-07 | 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Thor Simpson
Hardly.
The vast majority of consumers who have not yet gotten in to High Def players have no idea about these matters. They will see cheaper players and buy them for their increasingly affordable HD sets. Blu-Ray MUST get their player prices down quite a lot further before they can hope at hitting the mainstream and potentially ending anything. Neither side is mainstream yet so any conclusions before that time are silly.
There is a huge difference between the demographic that will pay $400+ for a player and those who will not get in to a HD player for more than $300. It is the latter group that matters the most in the format war. What you or I would base our own format decision on is relatively meaningless.
For me, I chose HD-DVD. And Star Wars isn't even a title I would purchase again in HD if it came out on HD-DVD because my upconverted version looks fantastic as it is. I just watched episode III the other day and didn't feel an itch for an HD copy.
05-17-07 | 12:56 AM
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Originally Posted by jiggawhat
Star Wars as a genre fits perfectly with the early adopter type person. We all know that this isn't coming out anytime soon so I'm not going to get an a big argument about this.
05-17-07 | 08:13 AM
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Trust me guys, there's NO WAY Lucas is releasing the Star Wars movies on hi-def until at least 2010 or later.
DVD's birth: apx. 1997
Star Wars 1st DVD release (Phantom Menace): 2001
Original Trilogy release: 2004
We've got a LONG wait, if ever.
DVD's birth: apx. 1997
Star Wars 1st DVD release (Phantom Menace): 2001
Original Trilogy release: 2004
We've got a LONG wait, if ever.
