Damn, you're cruel sir!

No go at the plano frys. Maybe in tomorrows big ad?

Thats more then ill ever watch out of it. How can you sit there, watch a awesome looking HD movie, then sit through 4:3 SD extras? Doesnt jive. The disc is fine and the PQ/AQ are superb. Yay for fox!

So you went from this

to this:

You must have made a great cheerleader in high school. YAY TEAM!

We need to stop the bickering and get this thread back on the right track.

Which of course is, please please please somebody pick me up a Mr. Brooks for trade or sale .

Brave, I'll be buying mr brooks to watch and then resell right away. Drop me a pm

Is this only today? What's the duration?

We don't know yet. I think the DFW area will know when the big ad is released tomorrow.

I don't get the "I'm not interested, therefore it shouldn't exist" mentality. If you don't want to watch 4x3 extras, then don't watch them. HD DVD and Blu-ray should be 'archival' formats; I shouldn't have to hold onto old DVDs (or fish through cut-out bins or track down long out-of-print editions) once I upgrade.

I'll say "yay for Fox" once their release slate starts to match at least half of what they announce, once at least one widely adopted player can decode the DTS HD-MA soundtracks they're so hellbent on using, once they lower their catalog titles' list prices to something remotely reasonable, and once they do a more consistent job carrying over extras from earlier editions. Until then, "yay" doesn't really factor in. I'm thinking something more along the lines of four letters, really.

Fox is easily one of the two worst major studios releasing in high-def right now. It's a toss-up between them and Paramount/Dreamworks. (I don't have a problem with most of Paramount's releases, but their slate of anything but day-and-date releases is pitiful.)

This post sounds like something on AVS from 2 weeks ago. A 100%, tru-blu cheerleading, defend blindly without logic post.

Anyways, isn't 50gb of space enough to provide top notch audio/video AND all extra features? Or is it limited? Why in the hell would a BD studio want a dvd to have an advantage over their BD release? Why?

Why not include everything so that the disc will appeal to everyone, including those who like extras? Why purposely alienate some of your user base by leaving them off?

Maybe eventually Blu 2.0 will have all those old extras online?

BTW, no dice in Austin - just got back and none of those titles were on sale. I'll check back tomorrow.

Mboyd...

Good point! Since I have a PS3, that's not only possible but easy with my WiFi connection.

No Fox BD sale at the IL Fry's.

Guys, it's online now but will be in the ads tomorrow for B&M.

No RoboCop?

The deal is ON right now at the Oxnard, CA location. Just picked up Day After Tomorrow, The Fly, Mr Brooks, and Terminator for half off. No need to buy 2 at the same time, they will ring up half off anyway.

AVP is encoded with MPEG-2, not AVC....
That more than anything is probably the main reason for it lacking all of the video based special features the 2-disc DVD had...

I am not so sure about the veracity of this statement.

During the last two weeks WB has managed to disappoint me in a way I am yet to experience with any of the other majors. I have The Aviator and Ocean's 13 with me and needless to say the audio treatment on both discs is mediocre at best.

In fact, last night I played with the Ocean's 13 disc for about 45 min. and most certainly there are large chunks of audio loops: the sound is notably lacking balance and the division between music score and speech is seriously flawed. I don't know what team mastered this disc but if I were to review it and give it a score two stars would be as far as I would go.

The Aviator is slightly better handled in terms of audio but the fact that Warner once again opted for a 5.1 DD track only is extremely disappointing.

Last but not least I am not the biggest fan of Warner's menus: I find them to be incredibly boring, lacking imagination, and quite frankly evoking parallels with SDVD's launch era (I could not stop thinking about Universal's initial slate of special edition titles such as 12 Monkeys, Out of Sight, and The Jackal among others where the menu systems were notably rough and static looking).

For the record I refer to Ocean's 13 and The Aviator on BR (which should look identical on HDDVD).

Ciao,
Pro-B

Well, I'm just the opposite. I prefer simple, quick menus, even if they are "boring." The antithesis of this is Disney/Pixar's Cars disc, which has two sets of menus for no good reason, plus transitions that last for several seconds. I don't like how in some of the menus everything's just laid out in a random jumble, so you have to fiddle with the buttons just to find out where everything is. I'll take a simple menu any day over something where you feel like you're playing a game to figure out where the selections are and what's on the disc. Plus, they take longer to load.

Okay it's on. Frys opens at 8 here.

I looked online and AVP is showing up 27.99. Is there a special code I need?

The BOGO for Fox is in the Friday ad here. I'll have to stop there later.

I think it must also include some Sony titles, as they Terminator pictured.

I got everything I wanted except Kingdom of Heaven. Also picked up Terminator, Black hawk Down, Hellboy and The Fly.

It's 1999 all over again!

Also some of these only had 1 copy available. Most had 4-5.

I'm definitely planning on stopping by on the way home. I'm disappointed that Edward Scissorhands isn't included in the sale.