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post #31 of 54
9/28/07 at 10:27am

Re: HD-DVD Combo discontinued by Warner Home Video

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Originally Posted by troy evans
I don't know, since Paramount/CBS is releasing them. Aren't they ?
Your right. My mistake.
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post #32 of 54
9/29/07 at 1:12am

Re: HD-DVD Combo discontinued by Warner Home Video

Bill Hunt is now reporting that Warner got back to him and stated that they are NOT stopping the Combo discs.
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post #33 of 54
9/29/07 at 6:44am

Re: HD-DVD Combo discontinued by Warner Home Video

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Bill Hunt is now reporting that Warner got back to him and stated that they are NOT stopping the Combo discs.


That's just great ! A ray of hope that these studio's are finally coming to their senses.............that's now squashed like a bug. Well at least with Warner I can continue to opt for the non-combo BD so no big deal I guess.

Where the hell did this "news" originate again?
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post #34 of 54
9/29/07 at 6:50am

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Strange - because the less expensive HD DVD-only versions of former combos are showing up for ordering on Amazon. Many of them, actually.


Cees
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post #35 of 54
9/29/07 at 8:22am

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What Robert Z and Bill Hunt said are not necessarily contradictory. Robert said no combos for new theatrical releases, which means catalog titles could still be combos.
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post #36 of 54
9/29/07 at 8:44am

Re: HD-DVD Combo discontinued by Warner Home Video

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What Robert Z and Bill Hunt said are not necessarily contradictory. Robert said no combos for new theatrical releases, which means catalog titles could still be combos.

Huh? Warner doesn't use Combo'$ for catalog titles, just new releases. So you're saying Warner is going to drop Combo'$ from new releases and start using Combo'$ on catalog titles? It just doesn't make any sense.
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post #37 of 54
9/29/07 at 8:52am

Re: HD-DVD Combo discontinued by Warner Home Video

I'm a little confused here too by the contradictions. I just read
Bill Hunt's post that Warner is not stopping combo discs.

Personally, I was for them initially. I thought what a great way
for those thinking of getting into HD to buy a title that supports
both. Now that I am a HD-DVD owner, I sort of get annoyed by
the significantly higher price point on these things.

Really, if costs to produce these combi discs were minimal,
the best way to push people into HD-DVD would be for all Warner
titles to be released combi. This would let sDVD consumers know
that there is a hi-def alternative that offers better picture and sound.

...of course, from a financial standpoint this could never be
done -- but I think it would be an effective means of
luring consumers over to high definition.

All that being said, I am hoping Warner just dumps these
combi discs. Hot Fuzz just cost me $9 more than most
other HD-DVD titles. On average over at AMAZON, these combi
discs cost $8 more than other standard HD-DVD releases. The
early adopters love to buy many titles in a clip, and $8 extra for
each title adds up very quickly. Warner obviously can't make
the purchase of these discs more affordable for us so my vote
is to just dump the concept altogether.
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post #38 of 54
9/29/07 at 9:20am

Re: HD-DVD Combo discontinued by Warner Home Video

I deeply hope that Warner (and Universal) quit releasing combo discs. The enthusiast community has spoken up that they are not interested in purchasing them and the general public has shown that they too have no interest in them.

I suppose it's possible that Warner will begin to test a situation where the combo release comes out first followed shortly (2-3 months) by a HD DVD only release. That at least appears to be a growing pattern with studios that support combo releases.
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post #39 of 54
9/29/07 at 11:01am

Re: HD-DVD Combo discontinued by Warner Home Video

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Originally Posted by Ronald Epstein
On average over at AMAZON, these combi discs cost $8 more than other standard HD-DVD releases.
That's not just the combo, though - combos tend to be new releases, and non-combos tend to be catalog. Comparing the combo to new releases, and it's closer to $4. Still, I'd rather it be $0.
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post #40 of 54
9/29/07 at 1:28pm

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I have a lot of SACD/CD hybrid discs and they do solve a problem. The SACD hybrids however generally sell for a similar price of a SACD-only disc. There's no gluing together of two discs: they just use different layers on a single-sided disc a la a DVD-9.

Rather than a combo disc, it may be cheaper for them to package a pair of discs: one HD-DVD and the other SD-DVD.
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post #41 of 54
9/29/07 at 7:26pm

Re: HD-DVD Combo discontinued by Warner Home Video

If any of you have any combo discs that you are actually having a problem with, Kevin Collins from Microsoft is wanting to take a look at it. He will replace it with a new one as well. It's limited to the first 50 discs. Read more about it here:

http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/...d.php?t=262897
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post #42 of 54
9/30/07 at 1:27pm

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Well, you can apparently do that with an HD-DVD, too, but the only discs it's shown up on are the Freedom anime episodes, which run $40 retail for a single twenty minute episode. That's probably more "videos are expensive in Japan" than replication costs.
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post #43 of 54
10/1/07 at 5:08am

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Originally Posted by Chris S
I deeply hope that Warner (and Universal) quit releasing combo discs. The enthusiast community has spoken up that they are not interested in purchasing them and the general public has shown that they too have no interest in them.


Speak for yourself, I happen to like the combos.

Doug
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post #44 of 54
10/1/07 at 5:30am

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Should the title of this thread maybe be revised? Perhaps add a question mark (?) to the end of it.
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post #45 of 54
10/1/07 at 7:50am

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I wonder if what is going on here is reminiscent of Sony's denial of a PS3 price-drop (i.e. don't announce the decision until the last minute or risk Combo Format sales otherwise).
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post #46 of 54
10/1/07 at 7:55am

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Warner should lead the way: No combos. If you want additional DVD-version, buy the damn DVD.
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post #47 of 54
10/1/07 at 8:42am

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If Warner dumps combos, that'd be a big win for Blu-Ray; the nuclear strike for HD DVD that few are discussing is releasing everything as a combo disc as a stealth measure to get the discs into homes. But if Warner won't do it, then Blu-Ray is safer.
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post #48 of 54
10/1/07 at 9:04am

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I don't see how that can be the case, since it's clear that nobody is doing a combo-only release except for Bandai (at prices that just don't fly in the US) or plans to in the near future. If anything, this would shift a few sales from BD to HD DVD as people with both formats who previously would have purchased the BD to save $5 now purchase the HD DVD to get the IME, online features, and occasional TrueHD that the HD DVD version has and the BD doesn't.
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post #49 of 54
10/1/07 at 9:17am

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Originally Posted by Jason Seaver
I don't see how that can be the case, since it's clear that nobody is doing a combo-only release except for Bandai (at prices that just don't fly in the US) or plans to in the near future. If anything, this would shift a few sales from BD to HD DVD as people with both formats who previously would have purchased the BD to save $5 now purchase the HD DVD to get the IME, online features, and occasional TrueHD that the HD DVD version has and the BD doesn't.

CBS/Paramount is doing a combo only release for Star Trek: TOS.

Doug
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post #50 of 54
10/1/07 at 11:38am

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Aw, crap, I can't believe I forgot that. I'll take some small solace in that the main point I'm making - Warner is likely not hurting HD-DVD at all by doing this - survives mostly unscathed.
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post #51 of 54
10/1/07 at 11:40am

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I still don't have HD yet, but since the HD formats came out I haven't been buying any movies on regular DVD that are also available in HD. I have bought a few HD combo discs though and they play fine on my old player (I know that doesn't mean the HD sides will play properly though, we'll just have to wait and see when I finally get an HD player) I wasn't going to buy the new Harry Potter if the regular and HD releases were separate but I will be getting the combo disc.

The prices on these DO need to come down- I can see how it would be annoying to have to pay extra for the regular DVD version when you just want the HD. They should just include it as a 'bonus' and use it to get more HD titles into the hands of people who haven't bought a player yet. I'm planning to get a combo HD/Blu-Ray player when more of them are out, and if a movie I wanted was available on Blu-Ray at a lower price than the HD combo disc, that's the one I'd buy.

This trend of putting NO printing on side 2 of 2-sided discs has got to stop as well- all the combo discs look naked going into my player!
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post #52 of 54
10/1/07 at 12:19pm

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I do believe that combos COULD be an asset IF the twin is developed and sold with little or no extra cost to the buyer. This would be the REAL benefit of a larger disc capacity. Why not do DL30/SL5 on one side?

Imagine if a title like The Transformers had been released like this with no SD-DVD only counterpart!

The only problem is that I don't think the pressing infrastructure would be in place to handle this kind of volume for some time.
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post #53 of 54
10/1/07 at 6:10pm

Re: HD-DVD Combo discontinued by Warner Home Video

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Originally Posted by Robert_Zohn
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be the last title we are offering the HD-DVD Combo for. The Invasion will be the first HD only title on the TNR release slate.

-Robert
vd?

i'm not sure what tnr is but is this saying that invasion will not be sd d
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post #54 of 54
10/1/07 at 10:51pm

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No HD-DVD/SD Combo disc, Tony. There will be a SD only release too. There's nowhere near enough market for a HD only release on a title like the Invasion.
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