WHV Announcement: 10 New Blu-ray Titles coming April 2009 (1 Viewer)

[Paul Arnette]

Meh. I'd consider 2010: The Year We Make Contact, American History X, and The Wedding Singer, but my decision to buy will be predicated on AV quality (especially in the case of the two former New Line titles) and price.

 

[Ron-P]

Wedding Singer if I can get it for under $15. But that's the only one from that list that I'd like to buy.

 

[Peter Neski]

gee they can't do "Badlands" before this so-so stuff

 

[Brandon Conway]

If a new DVD SE release arrives the same day, sometimes yes. If not, no.

 

[Marc Colella]

I guess WB ran out of titles to release on Blu-Ray.

 

[Powell&Pressburger]

Yeah I was thinking how cool it would be to have Blu ray titles for After Hours, KLUTE, All the President's Men, NETWORK, Where Eagles Dare, Who's Afriad of Virginia Woolf and even some guilty pleasures like Drop Dead Gorgeous... It will be interesting to see how these releases look and sound thru quality control.

Who knows maybe we will see other titles like BLOW UP and PERFORMANCE later on. One can dream I guess

 

[John H Ross]

I suppose it's silly of me to expect that these will default to the HD audio track (if there is one...)?

I'd defo be interested in Tango & Cash and 2010

 

[Greg_M]

And these are going to look how much better in High Def - ????? Where are the true classics?

 

[Jesse Blacklow]

Disregarding the fact that anything shot on film has a near-100% chance of looking better than DVD due to the nature of the "resolution" of 35+mm, theast time I checked, true classics were still being announced. Unless somehow we've fallen into some alternate universe where this is the only Warner announcement of any significance from the last month or so, or for the foreseeable future.

 

[Brandon Conway]

Good grief, there's a bunch of whiners on this board.

 

[Elijah Sullivan]

Presumably this batch of titles is not aimed at our demographic - but at all the Joe Sixpacks who will presumably get a Blu-ray player for Christmas. Average Joe doesn't want Badlands, Barry Lyndon or even Doctor Zhivago.

 

[RickER]

Yea, and could i have a slice of cheese with my wine?

 

[Michael Elliott]

Which is why they haven't been released yet.

 

[MattFini]

I think it's cool that Warner is getting some of their catalogue titles out. Personally I'm in for a few of those.

 

[Scott_J]

I've been wondering if Final Destination would be on Warner's list of priorities. Good to see at least the original on WB's radar. I'll probably get that, Wedding Singer and American History X.

 

[John Skoda]

THESE are coming, but still no date for the blu GIGI or AMERICAN IN PARIS? WB has really lost it for me.

 

[Brandon Conway]

Most likely in March.

 

[Chris Joyner]

I'm glad to be finally getting "Tango and Cash" as anamorphic. I've been waiting for that since I got a widescreen TV seven years ago

 

[Jesse Blacklow]

To reiterate the point I made at another forum: It's really annoying that you guys are entering freakout mode over this press release for a couple titles 4 months away. Warner's not going to tie their announcements of big classic titles like Ben-Hur, Gigi, or American in Paris to brainless Steven Segal and Governator releases. They've announced that those classics coming in 2009, and Warner hasn't even finished announcing February and March titles yet.

Put down the pitchforks, please.

 

[John Skoda]

Sorry about the whining, but these two titles are especially annoying. The new versions have been out on SD for a while. Both blus are done. They're out overseas now, and being reviewed as imports, and still no U.S. release even announced.

I think these two titles will be the next ones I purchase from WB. If they want to delay them further, fine, I'll keep my money.