Lists of Blu-ray & HD DVD Titles (Scheduled, Announced, Rumored, Wish List) (1 Viewer)

[David Coleman]

I'm curious have any of the Blu-Ray or HD-DVD titles been listed with 7.1 channel sound in either uncompressed or DD or DTS?

To me it would be silly for SONY who has several titles that were mixed into 7.1 to not use that format with the new technology!

I'd love to see LEGENDS OF THE FALL in Hi-Def and to hear it in it's original 7.1 channel mix!

 

[Juan C]

More Blu-ray:

Eagle Rock Entertainment: "20 music titles from artists including George Benson, Usher, the Black Crowes, Miles Davis and the Pixies"

And also titles for Japan only:
Angel Seekers, from Air TBS
New Cinema Paradise [they mean Cinema Paradiso?], from Asmik Ace Entertainment, Inc.
Steamboy, from Bandai Visual Company, LTD.

 

[PeterTHX]

It's unlikely because SDDS 7.1 used the old 70MM mix method of having half left & right center channels.

Current 7.1 systems are a mono SURROUND BACK sent to 2 rear speakers.

 

[Juan C]

I've concocted a nice little color-coded list:

40-Year-Old Virgin
A Knight's Tale
Aeon Flux
Apollo 13
Armageddon
Batman Begins
Behind Enemy Lines
Blazing Saddles
Bourne Supremacy
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Brothers Grimm
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
Chronicles of Riddick
Cinderella Man
Constantine
Dark Water (USA remake)
Desperado
Devil's Rejects
Dinosaur
Doom
Dukes of Hazzard
Dune (mini-series)
Everest
Fantastic Four
Fifth Element
For a Few Dollars More
Four Brothers
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
Great Raid
Green Mile Special Edition
Guns of Navarone
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Hero
Hitch
House of Flying Daggers
Ice Age
Italian Job
Jarhead
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Kiss of the Dragon
Kung Fu Hustle
Ladder 49
Last Samurai
Last Waltz
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Legends of the Fall
Lethal Weapon
Lord of War
Manchurian Candidate (remake)
Matrix
Million Dollar Baby
Oceans 12
Phantom of the Opera
Punisher
Rambo: First Blood
Reservoir Dogs
Resident Evil Apocalypse
Robocop
Rumor Has It
Sahara
Saw
See No Evil
Sense and Sensibility
Serenity
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow
Sleepy Hollow
Species
Stealth
SWAT
Swordfish
Syriana
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Tomb Raider
Total Recall
Training Day
Troy
Twister
U2: Rattle and Hum
U-571
Unforgiven
Van Helsing
We Were Soldiers
XXX


Blue: launch in Blu-ray only
Red: launch in HD DVD only
Green: launch in both Blu-ray and HD DVD

Total titles = 87
Available in BD only = 43
Available in HD DVD only = 19
Available in both = 25
Total available in BD = 43 + 25 = 68
Total available in HD DVD = 19 + 25 = 44

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Juan,

Your color-coding idea is AWESOME. Nils, can you just copy and past his code (from the email if not directly from his post) so that your updated list in the first few posts uses the same color convention? That really makes it easy to see what's what at a glance!

 

[Aaron_Brez]

I second this praise, Juan. Very cool. Kind of like Blue states and Red states in an election year.

 

[Nils Luehrmann]

Excellent idea/job Juan!

I thought it might also be a good idea to separate titles by studios, as it will be helpful to predict which titles that are currently exclusive to one format may in short time come out on the other, depending on how well these titles sell on each format.

 

[Ed St. Clair]

Gracias Juan, muy bonito!

 

[PhilipG]

No Showgirls, No Sale, God-Damnit!

 

[Juan C]

Thanks mates.


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I thought it might also be a good idea to separate titles by studios, as it will be helpful to predict which titles that are currently exclusive to one format may in short time come out on the other, depending on how well these titles sell on each format.





Well, instead of looking at studio primarily, I think we could focus on the movies first, but adding the studio information. Something like this:


40-Year-Old Virgin (U)
Aeon Flux (P)
Apollo 13 (U)
Armageddon (D)
Batman Begins (W)
Behind Enemy Lines (F)
Blazing Saddles (W)
Bourne Supremacy (U)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (S)
Brothers Grimm (D)
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (W)
Chronicles of Riddick (U)
Cinderella Man (U)
Constantine (W)
Dark Water (USA remake) (D)
Desperado (S)
Devil's Rejects (L)
Dinosaur (D)
Doom (U)
Dukes of Hazzard (W)
Dune (mini-series) (L)
Everest (D)
Fantastic Four (F)
Fifth Element (S)
For a Few Dollars More (S)
Four Brothers (P)
Full Metal Jacket (W)
Goodfellas (W)
Great Raid (D)
Green Mile (W)
Guns of Navarone (S)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (W)
Hero (D)
Hitch (S)
House of Flying Daggers (S)
Ice Age (F)
Italian Job (P)
Jarhead (U)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (D)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (D)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (W)
Kiss of the Dragon (F)
Knight's Tale (S)
Kung Fu Hustle (S)
Ladder 49 (D)
Last Samurai (W)
Last Waltz (S)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (F)
Legends of the Fall (S)
Lethal Weapon (W)
Lord of War (L)
Manchurian Candidate (remake) (P)
Matrix (W)
Million Dollar Baby (W)
Oceans 12 (W)
Phantom of the Opera (W)
Punisher (L)
Rambo: First Blood (L)
Reservoir Dogs (L)
Resident Evil Apocalypse (S)
Robocop (S)
Rumor Has It (W)
Sahara (P)
Saw (L)
See No Evil (L)
Sense and Sensibility (S)
Serenity (U)
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow (P)
Sleepy Hollow (P)
Species (S)
Stealth (S)
SWAT (S)
Swordfish (W)
Syriana (W)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (L)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (W)
Tomb Raider (P)
Total Recall (L)
Training Day (W)
Troy (W)
Twister (W)
U2: Rattle and Hum (P)
U-571 (U)
Unforgiven (W)
Van Helsing (U)
We Were Soldiers (P)
XXX (S)


Where D=Disney; F=Fox; L=Lionsgate; P=Paramount; S=Sony/MGM; U=Universal; W=Warner

Disney, Fox and Sony are Blu-ray exclusive.
Universal is HD DVD exclusive.
Paramount releases the same titles on both formats
Warner releases in both formats, but more on HD DVD (for the moment)

So I don't think you'll see any 'blue' titles change color. Unless Universal concedes in the following weeks, the only development we can reasonably expect is some 'red' titles by Warner changing to 'green'. A good example of this would be Goodfellas, which was displayed at CES in the Blu-ray booth.

Back to you, Nils...

 

[Jonathan Kaye]

What a fantastic list. And looking at it, if the Warners red titles make it to Blu-ray, there's only one HD DVD exclusive title on there that I'd want at launch (if I were buying into the whole HD thing at launch, which I'm not).

Think I'll mark Christmas 2007 as being the time to go Blu...

 

[Juan C]

Added announced release dates:


40-Year-Old Virgin (U)
Aeon Flux (P)
Apollo 13 (U)
Armageddon (D)
Batman Begins (0328) (W)
Behind Enemy Lines (F)
Blazing Saddles (0509) (W)
Bourne Supremacy (U)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (S)
Brothers Grimm (D)
Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (0516) (W)
Chronicles of Riddick (U)
Cinderella Man (0328) (U)
Constantine (0328) (W)
Dark Water (USA remake) (D)
Desperado (S)
Devil's Rejects (L)
Dinosaur (D)
Doom (U)
Dukes of Hazzard (0509) (W)
Dune (mini-series) (L)
Everest (D)
Fantastic Four (F)
Fifth Element (S)
For a Few Dollars More (S)
Four Brothers (P)
Full Metal Jacket (0509) (W)
Goodfellas (0425) (W)
Great Raid (D)
Green Mile (0516) (W)
Guns of Navarone (S)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (0411) (W)
Hero (D)
Hitch (S)
House of Flying Daggers (S)
Ice Age (F)
Italian Job (P)
Jarhead (U)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (D)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (D)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (0425) (W)
Kiss of the Dragon (F)
Knight's Tale (S)
Kung Fu Hustle (S)
Ladder 49 (D)
Last Samurai (0411) (W)
Last Waltz (S)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (F)
Legends of the Fall (S)
Lethal Weapon (0411) (W)
Lord of War (L)
Manchurian Candidate (remake) (P)
Matrix (0425) (W)
Million Dollar Baby (0328) (W)
Oceans 12 (0516) (W)
Phantom of the Opera (0328) (W)
Punisher (L)
Rambo: First Blood (L)
Reservoir Dogs (L)
Resident Evil Apocalypse (S)
Robocop (S)
Rumor Has It (0509) (W)
Sahara (P)
Saw (L)
See No Evil (L)
Sense and Sensibility (S)
Serenity (U)
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow (P)
Sleepy Hollow (P)
Species (S)
Stealth (S)
SWAT (S)
Swordfish (0425) (W)
Syriana (0425) (W)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (L)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (0509) (W)
Tomb Raider (P)
Total Recall (L)
Training Day (0411) (W)
Troy (0516) (W)
Twister (0328) (W)
U2: Rattle and Hum (P)
U-571 (U)
Unforgiven (0411) (W)
Van Helsing (U)
We Were Soldiers (P)
XXX (S)


Where D=Disney; F=Fox; L=Lionsgate; P=Paramount; S=Sony/MGM; U=Universal; W=Warner

Disney, Fox and Sony are Blu-ray exclusive.
Universal is HD DVD exclusive.
Paramount releases the same titles on both formats
Warner releases in both formats, but more on HD DVD (for the moment)

So I don't think you'll see any 'blue' titles change color. Unless Universal concedes in the following weeks, the only development we can reasonably expect is some 'red' titles by Warner changing to 'green'. A good example of this would be Goodfellas, which was displayed at CES in the Blu-ray booth.

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Awesome Juan. Thanks for crusading the title-tracking effort!

 

[Juan C]

You're welcome DaViD.

You know, all that talk about downrezzing is really depressing. I'd rather discuss hidef movies on shiny discs.

 

[Ken_F]

Here's a more comprehensive list of titles for HD-DVD, Blu-ray, and both:

12 Monkeys (HD DVD)
40 Year-Old Virgin (HD DVD)
Above the Law (HD DVD)
Aeon Flux (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Alexander (HD DVD)
Angel Seekers (Blu-ray)
Angels in America (HD DVD)
Apollo 13 (HD DVD)
Armageddon (Blu-ray)
Austin Powers : International Man of Mystery (HD DVD)
Awake (HD DVD)
Backdraft (HD DVD)
Batman Begins (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Behind Enemy Lines (Blu-ray)
Black Hawk Down (Blu-ray)
Blade (HD DVD)
Blazing Saddles (HD DVD)
Bone Collector (HD DVD)
Bourne Supremacy (HD DVD)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Blu-ray)
Breaking and entering (HD DVD)
Bridge on the River Kwai (Blu-ray)
Brothers Grimm (Blu-ray)
Catwoman (HD DVD)
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (Blu-ray)
Chronicles of Riddick (HD DVD)
Cinderella Man (HD DVD)
Conan the Barbarian (HD DVD)
Constantine (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Dante’s Peak (HD DVD)
Dark Water (Blu-ray)
Decameron (HD DVD)
Derailed (HD DVD)
Desperado (Blu-ray)
Devil's Rejects (Blu-ray)
Dinosaur (Blu-ray)
Doom (HD DVD)
Dukes of Hazzard (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Dune (HD DVD)
Dune - TV miniseries (Blu-ray)
End of Days (HD DVD)
Everest (Blu-ray)
Fantastic Four (Blu-ray)
Fifth Element (Blu-ray)
For a Few Dollars More (Blu-ray)
Four Brothers (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Full Metal Jacket (HD DVD)
Goodfellas (HD DVD)
Great Raid (Blu-ray)
Green Mile (HD DVD)
Grind House (HD DVD)
Guns of Navarone (Blu-ray)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (HD DVD)
Hero (Blu-ray)
Hitch (Blu-ray)
Hoodwinked (HD DVD)
House of Flying Daggers (Blu-ray)
Ice Age (Blu-ray)
Italian Job (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Jarhead (HD DVD)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (Blu-ray)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Blu-ray)
Killshot (HD DVD)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (HD DVD)
Kiss of the Dragon (Blu-ray)
Knight's Tale (Blu-ray)
Kung Fu Hustle (Blu-ray)
Ladder 49 (Blu-ray)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Last Legion (HD DVD)
Last Samurai (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Last Waltz (Blu-ray)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Blu-ray)
Legends of the Fall (Blu-ray)
Lethal Weapon (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Libertine (HD DVD)
Lord of War (Blu-ray)
Lucky Number Slevin (HD DVD)
Matador (HD DVD)
Mrs Henderson Presents (HD DVD)
Manchurian Candidate (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Matrix (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Million Dollar Baby (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Mission Impossible - Trilogy (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
New Cinema Paradise (Blu-ray)
Ocean’s 12 (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Passion of the Clerks (HD DVD)
Phantom of the Opera (HD DVD)
Pitch Black (HD DVD)
Poseidon (HD DVD)
Pulse (HD DVD)
Punisher (Blu-ray)
Rambo: First Blood (Blu-ray)
Reservoir Dogs (Blu-ray)
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Blu-ray)
Robocop (Blu-ray)
Rumor Has It (HD DVD)
Sahara (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Saw (Blu-ray)
Scary Movie 4 (HD DVD)
School for Scoundrels (HD DVD)
See No Evil (Blu-ray)
Sense and Sensibility (Blu-ray)
Serenity (HD DVD)
Sin City 2 (HD DVD)
Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Sleepy Hollow (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Species (Blu-ray)
Spy Game (HD DVD)
Stealth (Blu-ray)
Steamboy (Blu-ray)
Superman Returns (HD DVD)
SWAT (Blu-ray)
Swordfish (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Syriana (HD DVD)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Blu-ray)
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Thing (HD DVD)
Total Recall (Blu-ray)
Training Day (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Transamerica (HD DVD)
Troy (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Twister (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
U-571 (HD DVD)
U2: Rattle and Hum (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Underworld: Evolution (Blu-ray)
Unforgiven (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Van Helsing (HD DVD)
We Were Soldiers (HD DVD / Blu-ray)
Wolf Creek (HD DVD)
XXX (Blu-ray)
Young Hannibal (HD DVD)

His disclaimer:
As a further disclaimer, I would note that some of these announced titles are not even on DVD yet, let alone in theaters. An example of this would be Superman Returns. Furthermore, because HD-DVD appears to be coming coming out at least two months before Blu-ray, its natural to expect more title announcements for that format; once BD players get closer to their release date, we should see more title announcements.

 

[Dan Hitchman]

Another potential problem with early Sony releases will be that many are on BR-25's and encoded with MPEG-2. There have been claims made that the MPEG-2 bitrate used would be around 16-20 Megabit/sec. VBR due to the lower storage capacity of BR-25 using the less efficient MPEG-2 codec.

That's crappy broadcast quality (or less) for 1080p video (when properly transmitted broadcast TV uses lesser 1080i and 720p at 19 Megabits/sec)!! That's insane! If Sony is so gung-ho about sticking with MPEG-2 encoders why wouldn't they make sure their films were released on BR-50 discs so the video bitrate could be expanded to 25-40 Megabits/sec and still allow for an average film length and high res. lossless audio?

Of course, it all comes down to A/V comparisons. If all the other studios are using MPEG-4 AVC HP or VC-1 at their optimal transparent-to-the-master bitrates and really high quality lossless high res. audio and they look and sound superior to Sony releases then perhaps it will force Sony to start using at least MPEG-4 AVC HP encoders (Sony still has patents in that codec, and probably wouldn't want to support Microsoft by using VC-1) and lossless audio.

 

[Dan Hitchman]

Also, you better hope and pray that Sony re-scans the restored 65/70mm IP's of Lawrence of Arabia at at least 4k, gets Robert A. Harris to supervise the complete transfer and color correction, and uses this digital master to create the 1920x1080p files for Blu-Ray!!

AND uses the best supervised, digital restoration soundtrack masters for a high resolution lossless track!

The current HD transfer of LoA is atrociously bad! This was the HD transfer used for the Blu-Ray demos and you could still see the ugly edge enhancement placed on that older HD master.

Dan

 

[DaViD Boulet]

Amen!

 

[BrettGallman]

There are way more titles that I want on Blu-Ray, but I must admit that HD-DVD has just enough titles that makes me think about adopting that format too. But I'll just be patient and hope those titles come to Blu-Ray too I guess.

 

[ChristopherDAC]

Just to be correct, 1080p24 contains less information, at least in uncompressed form, than "1080i" which has a 30 Hz framerate [60 Hz fieldrate]. Even 1080i30, which would only be an issue with Oklahoma! and Around the World in 80 Days, has no more. Now, if the transfers are really good, not filtered to the hilt, they may require more bitspace in compressed form, but still the overall bit allocations are more favourable than for ATSC broadcast.
The 19 Mbps figure is basically the peak capacity of 8-VSB in a 6-MHz channel with after correction, and is not normally all allocated to one HD presentation -- 16 Mbps, I think, would be a more usual figure, and with "robust VSB" being rolled out to compensate for the serious problems with ATSC, it may well drop as low as 12. Someone with better technical information feel free to correct me, I'm too discouraged with ATSC to do it myself, but that was what I remember from my research.
To think, we could have had MUSE, which was robust and made for sterling NTSC downconverts, fifteen years ago. The current Lawrence of Arabia transfer was made for MUSE high definition LaserDisc. I think they'd want to do a new one, since that transfer was on the old 1035-active-line system, and while the basic scan structure is the same, it does result in a certain defree of distortion.