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Who the heck is this Hastings guy, and whats he doing to our HD???

I think your point here is very valid, but at the risk of sounding like a broken record.....I don't think the classic films are selling at any different a market share than they are on SD DVD. When the biggest selling HD title sells 100,000 copies, why is anyone surprised by the numbers that...

David, Of course I did say that BD+ is the most likely and most logical possible reason for the delay at Fox. But there could be other reasons that we just don't know about. Even inside sources frequently depend on rumors with in the company and often don't know all the details. Ever worked...

I think you may have hit the nail on the head here. Doug

Hey Ed I hadn't heard about this. Which titles are you talking about? Doug

I understand that for titles like Batman, but that doesn't explain while the likes of Casablanca and Forbidden Planet haven't been released on Blu-ray. Honestly I'm not sure what the hold up is there. Doug

Well I think in many ways BD is an afterthought for Warners. For the most part the discs are designed for HD DVD and then just ported over to BD. There is nothing really wrong with it but its clear that they aren't putting much effort into Blu-ray. Just based on their actions I would say that HD...

The Departed, according to Warners has hit 100,000. But that counting both Blu-ray and HD DVD. Doug

Its actually not at all. I'm just interested in it as a classic game. I'll just pick it up on HD DVD. I wouldn't spend that much on a blu-ray player. I only bought it because it was an open box item and I got it for $200. But it really doesn't have the horse power to really do the java menu's...

That could very well be true. However having said that the menus on Pirates chunk along like a bloated cow! If the game goes along at that speed I would take me years to complete. Doug

Oh this is very true. I've probably owned 10 sd DVD players. And when I can walk into walmart and pick up a Blu-ray player for under $100 I probably won't care. However in the mean time I doubt I would be able to play Dragon's Lair on my Samsung, which kinda sucks. Fortunately I'll be able to...

That really is the rub isn't it for all the people, myself included, who bought a first gen blu-ray player. Doug

One could say the same thing about Disney or Fox. They are just being dumb alienating potential customers by not releasing content on HD DVD. Doug

But we are also talking about a title (the matrix) that was in excess of $70 or $80 on release. So selling 13,000 copies is a pretty good haul. Doug

The Departed. Sorry I didn't mean to say HD DVD but rather the biggest selling HD title. This was a month or two back so its probably a few more than that now. Doug

Well considering that the best selling HD DVD of so far sold 100,000 copies, its not all that bad. Doug

I'm not sure why you think it backfired. The Matrix sets sold quite well. I'm not sure why anyone thought they would outsell the Pirates movies which did better numbers at the box office as well. Doug

Well and I thenk your right they still seem to be releasing classics. I don't see Warner abandoning Classics at all. In the first year of these new formats we have seen Casablanca, Forbidden Planet, Grand Prix, The Searchers, The Cowboys, Rio Bravo, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Bullitt...

So will they stop releasing again when the second layer of copy protection is broken? I give it a month. :laugh: Doug

I don't think the classics are on HD DVD are selling at any less of a rate than they do on standard DVD. It's just that the market is much smaller. In other words if you compare the the sales numbers of Casablanca on DVD and HD DVD, it probably had around the same market percentage relative to...