So what happens now? HD-DVD ponderings - Page 2

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jesse - heres a shorter version of the article i was speaking of since i cant find the original but it says what i was trying to convey.

ok, apparently im not "old enough" to post links yet cause of spamming issues so here the entire story or well one of similar content about the rerelease of bluray movies.
"We warned you that one reason to hold off on boarding the Blu train is that movies released in the past year without sweet BD-Live interactive features might be re-released. A lot of them. Today, we got first confirmation of this from Fox, which told us it'll be re-releasing Alien Vs. Predator later this year with a suite of new interactive features. And that's just the beginning.

Sony Pictures is also reaching in with both hands, though they're "not 100 percent sure [they're] going back on every disc" and will be looking at "different ways [they] can allow people to connect to a BD-Live site" for stuff that's already come out sans the BD Launcher. But they haven't figured that second part out yet.

To be fair, of all the Blu-ray studios, Fox is currently the most pumped about the interactive aspect—a big reason they helped build Blu along with Sony and friends. What Fox is adding doesn't make this a crap double dip, either: It's a multiplayer game woven into the film that you play as it progresses, attacking and killing other players in hopefully the most genuine film interaction to date. Not only do you upload your own avatar, it'll stay in memory and reappear when you buy future AVP titles. Sven Davison, Fox's VP of Worldwide Product Development and Production, said nothing he's seen on HD DVD has come close to this.

Davison also said Fox was looking at three other major franchises for a heavy interactive component. But other studios probably aren't going to be as scrupulous, because they primarily see interactivity as "icing on the cake" rather than potatoes to the 1080p-and-uncompressed-audio meat.

This of course opens the door for nearly everything already on BD to be double-dipped in the coming year—especially in cases like Warner's, since that studio has already launched more interactive versions of movies on HD DVD while simultaneously putting out lower-featured editions on BD. Would this have happened if the 2.0 spec had been mandatory from the start?"


JESSES "Considering that both formats had at least half of their players made up by video game products (360 add-on for HD DVD, PS3 for BD), I think Paul's comments are pretty valid. I've heard the argument that "HD DVD was for film lovers, PS3 was for gamers", but it doesn't make sense. After all, the biggest films on HD DVD ("Transformers" and "300") were not aimed at film lovers but were most definitely aimed at gamers. Unless I'm missing something, no one made a video game out of "The Departed". Added on top of that was the fact that the PS3 was one of, if not the, best Blu-ray players, and the fact that many early Blu-ray adopters bought it for that reason"

WHAT? transformers and 300 were targeted at gamers and not film fans? im not really sure what your saying there but thats pretty biased of you to say something like that, being a gamer and a film fan i think thats a pretty empty statement and making the assertion that there wasnt a DEPARTED game made has anything to do with anything doesnt really help your arugument.

Also i cant really speak to why early adopters bought the ps3 but as a gamer i know most if not all gamers i know and interact with on a regular basis were not happy with the games selection then and even now and that most of them used it primarily as a BD player cause it was the cheapest one available.

"How do you "hope to be a productive member" with these comments?"

I hope to be a productive member by bringing an opinion based on my own experiences and possibly contributing to intelligent conversation with others on the forms and not coming here and disparaging others who have differing opinions. Im not here to fight anyone but you seem to be a little pissed off already and are directing a fair amount of rancor in my direction.

like i said please feel free to engage me in intelligent conversation but you dont have to get nasty calling my good intentions into question with your somewhat unpleasant comments.

Cees Alons - thanks for the stats link on the ps3 i appreciate that. i can never seem to find things when im looking for them kinda like my damn car keys

Again thanks for having a look everyone and adding to the discussion.

Re: So what happens now? HD-DVD ponderings

Lance - "The original poster has been rehashing shit we thought was buried months ago."

being new here i didnt know this was a dead and buried subject.

And yes getting back on subject im very curious to see where the hddvds will end up.

I was reading hddvd.com and its funny cause they just posted an article about this very subject but really didnt offer any new insights to the problem of where they will all go.

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ChristopherDAC - i didnt say that new release wouldnt play on older machines, i said that the the older title were being re-released with new feature sets and i had made the comment about how i vaguely remember something being said about how the older releases wouldnt play on newer machines but this isnt the actual article was referring to and i wasnt sure about why they would say older titles wouldnt play on new machines cause that didnt seem to make sense at all and believe me i wasnt getting stirred up about anything i was just mentioning something i had read granted i maybe phrased what i as trying to say a bit awkwardly but i knew what i was trying to say. seriously i wish i could find the article cause i could swear they said something about older titles not working on newer machines but as we are all probably aware thats pretty silly.