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Will Criterion ever go HD?

Does anyone think Criterion will eventually venture over to releasing HD dvds?

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Jefferson Morris

Re: Will Criterion ever go HD?

I can't imagine them not getting into it. Criterion has always been dedicated to the maximum-quality home video presentation (their initial aversion to anamorphic DVD notwithstanding), even if the necessary medium was a niche product (i.e., laserdisc).

In other words, I want my hi-def Baron Munchausen SE right now and they'd better hop to it.

--Jefferson Morris

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David Allum

Re: Will Criterion ever go HD?

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...d.php?t=231818

It looks like they're sitting it out for now.

Jefferson Morris

Re: Will Criterion ever go HD?

Thanks for the thread link. I suppose it is only sensible for them to wait out the format war. But their eventual entrance into HD is, I think, inevitable.

--Jefferson Morris

"If fakes, they were masterpieces."

--The New York Times commenting on Willis O'Brien's dinosaurs in The Lost World (1925).

"From the two trailers I've seen, the movie looks like AIDS."

--Recent thread post on AICN

PerryD

Re: Will Criterion ever go HD?

They've been doing HD transfers for their DVD releases for many years, but I wonder if by the time they enter the HD arena, that these existing HD transfers will look a little dated by then.

Douglas Monce

Re: Will Criterion ever go HD?

This might also be a matter of the reacquiring the rights to these films for a new format. After all they don't own most of the films they release.

Doug

Cees Alons

Re: Will Criterion ever go HD?

Official HTF HD Formats Industry/Retailer/Studio Support Thread.


Cees