Perhaps Universal was able to announce first since their contractual exclusivity to HD DVD was already up, while maybe there is some type of legal entanglement holding Paramount up.

I am just glad to see that Universal isn't going to be some type of hold-out.

great news. probably my last HD DVD purchase.

Sorry, edited post: Just missed the post regarding "There Will Be Blood". Let's hope "Sweeney Todd", "I Am Legend" and others continue on their path to HD DVD before they shut down releases completely.

April 8th seems like an eternity from now... but I'll be in line if it's on the shelves.

That makes me very excited for the prospects of Sweeney Todd.

Hell yes can't wait to see There Will Be Blood again.

Already preordered There Will Be Blood from amazon. As others have said, this will probably be my last hd-dvd.

Now, I just hope they get the coverart right!

Sadly, this will probably be a GREAT release for a dead format!

That's the truth. What I own on Blu: The Pixar films, Pirates trilogy, Lost & The Rock, which all fall under the Disney umbrella, then I own Die Hard 4 and Spidey 3. Disney/Pixar was 90% of the reason why I got a PS3. They haven't let me down yet.

All the other companies with their overpriced bare bones-double dipping-dropping SD features- methods can suck it. Hopefully this one format future will get pricing and releases on par with their SD brethren. If not BD is destined to be the next LaserDisc.

Well, to be honest, the situation with extras has gotten much better over the past several months. Sony and Disney have been including them, and the Fox new releases have been good AFAIK.

The problem is that Fox is still releasing titles that were (in all likelihood) completed a long time ago, like Predator, so until those run out we'll still be getting some barebones and lesser-featured titles from them.

I agree that it should be covered in this topic, but why not say "(Paramount likely)" or something like that, so people know that Paramount has announced yet. The way it is now is confusing.

I wonder when we'll see cheap BD players with good up-conversion. From what I've seen reviewed, most BD players don't up-convert as well as the Toshiba HDs. I'm in the camp that sees little to no difference and wasn't planning to replace my SD collection in any format... but I'll take a new fancy option for new stuff if it makes my old stuff look new again.

Wait and get a Toshiba BD.

Crutchfield has already removed all HD-DVD players from it's site.

I have both Blu-ray and HD DVD. Now you wait and see as all the blu-ray movies go back up in price and the players will be slow with the 2.0 roll out. I know two formats are bad...but it kept the price down for a while.

thats ridiculous, there is only one standard dvd format, i can get a dvd player for 30 dollars, prices will fall not go up

I think he meant shorter term.....I dont think the prices will go up, but we wont see many deals anymore and the prices will be slower to decline.

Also, remember, there may only be 1 HD format now, but really, there are 2 formats overall. DVD and Bluray. They ARE competitors and Bluray has a HUGE mountain to climb to overtake DVD.

Personally, I dont think it will ever happen.

and then you have Fox

that does stupid things like not porting over all the extras from standard DVD's to HiDef (or even the non-inclusion of uncut versions of 'Die Hard 4'/'Commando') - faults like these shouldn't be overlooked.

Universal didn't help their situation by learning from other studios' mistakes. They did the same with American Gangster this week. Left out the extended cut and didn't port all the extras.

They'll be on overstock soon....

I really believe Fox is not as into BD as they claim. I think they know their breadwinner.

Maybe the death of HD-DVD will change their stance a bit.

Which is why I can't find it in myself to buy the HD version of American Gangster or even Kingdom Of Heaven.

The promise of larger storage capacity IMO assumes that you'll be getting MORE out of Blu-Ray/HD not LESS than SD DVD.

yes there is the occasional fuck-up from other studios. I'm hoping when and if Legend get's the HiDef treatment, we get the Director's Cut/The US cut/ and Euro Cut all in Hidef

Prices on Overstock suck right now.

it is very apparent they favour standard DVD over Bluray. Take a look even at what's being shown on various HiDef cable stations, the HiDef output from Fox is pathetic, considering there's a whole channel for MGM's library.

Geez, even THIS lasted longer than HD-DVD:

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