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No HD-DVD Movies Until April

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the very-expensive-paperweight dept.

Jed from Pan and Scan writes "It's official: when the first HD-DVD players are released on March 28, there will be no movie titles available in the new high-def format for at least another three weeks, and far fewer than initially announced. Warner, the only studio that was planning on having HD-DVD movies to accompany the format's much ballyhooed debut, will now release just three initial HD-DVD titles -- and not until April 18."

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  1. Re:Nice selections - Don't count on it yet. by WidescreenFreak · · Score: 4, Informative

    You need to read the article more closely.

    The studio will now release just three initial HD-DVD titles on April 18: Clint Eastwood's Best Pic Oscar winner 'Million Dollar Baby,' the Tom Cruise starrer 'The Last Samurai' and the big-budget screen update of 'The Phantom of the Opera.' Each title will have a retail list price of $28.98.

    The three that you mention are supposed to be available "in the coming weeks" but "no street date has been set". Don't count on anything coming out until you get the official press release. And don't be surprised that those movies are not released for a long time if HD-DVD acceptance is lukewarm or colder.

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  2. Digital Broadcast Deadline... Not HDTV by dunc78 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The deadline is for broadcasts to be digital, not HD. HD is just a subset of digital broadcasts, there are also Standard Definition digital broadcasts.

  3. Bad day at Bentonville for Warner by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative
    the company had asked Wal-Mart and other retailers to cancel online pre-orders for HD-DVD titles late last week,

    A supplier cannot do that to Wal-Mart without serious suffering. Missing a delivery date is considered very serious by Wal-Mart. Warner execs will be summoned to Bentonville for a serious chewing out and will probably be forced to give discounts.

    Wal-Mart does not suck up to the content industries. They not only sell online music at $0.88/song, undercutting Apple, they actually sign a few bands themselves and put their music on line and on CDs. Just to remind the music industry that it can be replaced.

  4. Wrong by LunaticTippy · · Score: 3, Informative
    Pirates included a WMV HD 720p format copy. On a regular DVD. It is a HD-DVD, not a HD-DVD. I'm trying to be clear about this.

    OK, Pirates came with a High Definition movie on a regular old-fashioned DVD. (like grampa used to buy)

    Not a HD-DVD, this new probably doomed format.

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