Gizmo

Oh boy.

applesandrice

Other than to perhaps foster a bit of good will with their customers. Remember how they were so gung-ho for the format, and now they're just dropping it cold. It's a slap in the face to HD DVD supporters.

rfduncan

Wait a minute... "gung-ho"? Wasn't it really "paid support"? Careful about revisionist history there, buddy.

No one should really blame them for failing to support a dead medium. Sorry if the truth hurts.

Gizmo

"paid support" would also go to every other studio right now. They are all receiving some sort of "compensation". It may be cash, incentives, free discs etc. Don't fool yourself.

Back on subject.... Looks like next week will be Paramounts last.

applesandrice

While I hope we can still be buddies, I wasn't really trying to revise history. Even if the decision to go "HD DVD Exclusive" was based entirely on a pay-off, Paramount still went to great lengths to promote their position as having been the best choice for their customers. Now, they're just pulling the rug out from under those same people.

Look, my point (going back to my earlier post in this thread) is that while Warner Bros. is still intending to honor their decision to release titles on HD DVD through May, Paramount is choosing to just cut people off immediately. I think it just illustrates a clear divide in how the two companies treat their customers.

highclassrob

It seems Mirimax owns the foreign distribution rights to "There will be blood" so maybe we'll see one of those dutch blu-rays??

Josh Z

Those Blu-rays from the Netherlands were released by Dutch Filmworks, not by Miramax. DFW has the foreign rights to many Weinstein Company properties, not Miramax properties. Weinstein and Miramax are no longer the same thing. Miramax remained with Disney when the Weinstein brothers left it.

aintnosin

Damn, the Jack Ryan Collection has now been cancelled in both formats! We can't get a break...

matome

I'm pretty sure the Ryans will be showing back up on BD soon.

Hammer99

After their move last summer, they deserve to be placed at the end of the line. While they're waiting, they should be working on fresh encodes.

rfduncan

Oh without question! I mean this isn't anything new. Paramount was screwing the consumer long before HDM - check out their history with DVD! I'm just curious as to why their behavior now (while aggravating) is anything different than what we've come to expect from them....

whomod

Funny, when I write posts about Blu-Ray profiles still not being up to snuff and more expensive than HD-DVD I get a warning from the mods for "threadcrapping and then get my post deleted. And that's WITHOUT the slightest bit of snark.

and i've seen this time and time again here, when Blu Ray supporters decide to get snarky and superior about winning the format war, it's perfectly fine with everyone.

I'd have to say that I think saying anything bad about Blu-Ray, (even when it's 100% true) is not allowed here but it's perfectly acceptable to go to town on HD-DVD.

splattii2

Maybe the demographic for a BD release of There Will Be Blood doesn't seem like a sure thing. Let's face it, I want a BD or HD release of There Will Be Blood as much as anyone, it was my favorite Hollywood film of 2007. There are a lot of teenage owners in the BD demographic due to the PS3 sales, and it's possible they wouldn't to take to a title like TWBB as much as something like Hitman. Outside of that, I don't know why they wouldn't re-encode the HD master and press a BD disc.

applesandrice

I guess it's my own fault for having assumed their intentions were a bit more honorable. That and the fact that I really really wanted to get Sweeney Todd on HD DVD.

redbill

i dont take the "stop whining" posts to be HD-DVD bashing, but rather whiner-bashing. no one wants to read multiple pages of people complaining about having to wait a couple months to get 3 or 4 discs in HD.

matome

rfduncan was wrong in saying that HD DVD is a dead medium?

applesandrice

Who's writing the multiple pages if no one wants to read them? Given how wide the web is (world), there are plenty of other things those no ones can go read.

BambooLounge

Just out of curiosity...what exactly did you expect to read in a thread titled "Paramount stops HD DVD production?" I mean, if it was going to be a thread chock full of "I'm so excited about waiting an extra few months for the best film of 2007 (TWBB) to be available in high def" perhaps the thread title would have read "Paramount gives no clear Blu-ray release dates...horray for anticipation"

Quinty

Dutch FilmWorks indeed has some titles from Weinstein but also various Lionsgate films like Saw 4 and Rambo.

Don't count on DFW to release anymore HD-DVDs though, their next release Earth is Blu-Ray only through their House Of Knowledge label.

There Will Be Blood is distributed by Buena Vista International so Blu-Ray exclusive and over here in Holland it is planned for a June release.

FusionX

I hope Bee Movie comes out soon on Blu, I was really looking forward to seeing it in hi-def.

PerryD

It's not just these HD-DVD exclusives that I don't get to see in HD day and date with the DVD. There are several DVDs each week that get released without a corresponding high-def version, no Lust Caution, no Dajeerling Limited, no Nancy Drew, let alone dozens of smaller independent and foreign films released each week. So to lose expected releases like There Will Be Blood, Sweeney Todd, Bee Movie, Kite Runner, etc all at once without knowing whether there will be a blu-ray version is annoying, however sad you may think it is.

Supermallet

You have got to be kidding me.

Look, I can't speak about the BD comments in the main DVD Talk forum, as I never read the main forum. But I can tell you right now that if you try to come in here to make anti-HD/BD comments in some attempt at "getting back" at those people, you'll find yourself suspended or worse. If you're not here for HDM, then leave.

sbelli

I know I mentioned earlier that Beowulf seemed to be doing well on Amazon, but even in overall sales, High Def Digest is reporting that the best selling Hi-Def title of last week was an HD DVD, "American Gangster".

So F U to Paramount for not realizing that there are still people out there buying HD DVDs.

Skoobooz

Yes, but you didn't see the rest of the numbers...in total, Blu-ray still outsold HD DVD by a wide margin, and American Gangster would have sold more on BD.

rfduncan

Still what does that statistic tell you really? If the film was available in both HD formats, it might be significant. Still not sure I understand why that title was an HD/SD combo and if that skews the numbers at all...