Blu-Ray DVD list and Release Dates

[Dukefrukem]

thanks for the idea ender

Currently Available

16 Blocks
50 First Dates
A Knight's Tale
Aeon Flux
Basic Instinct 2
Benchwarmers
Big Hit
Bikini Destinations: Triple Fantasy
Blazing Saddles
Brothers Grimm
Bubble
Click
Crash
Dark Water
Devil's Rejects
Dinosaur
Eight Below
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Fifth Element
Firewall
Four Brothers
Fugitive
Full Metal Jacket
Glory Road
Gone in 60 Seconds
Good Night, and Good Luck
Great Raid
Haunted Mansion
HDNet World Report Special: Shuttle Discovery’s Historic Mission
Hitch
House of Flying Daggers
House of Wax
Into the Blue
Italian Job
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Lake House
Last Waltz
Legends of Jazz: Showcase
Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2
Little Man
Lord of War
Memento
Mission Impossible III
Monster House
Nacho Libre
One Last Thing...
Phantom of the Opera
Punisher
Reds
Rumor Has It
RV
S.W.A.T.
Sahara
Saw
Searchers
Silent Hill
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleepy Hollow
Space Cowboys
Species
Stargate
Stealth
Stir of Echoes
Swordfish
Syriana
Tears of the Sun
Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Title
Tomb Raider
Total Recall
Training Day
U2: Rattle and Hum
Ultraviolet
Under Siege
Underworld: Evolution
Unforgiven
War Within
xXx

Upcoming Releases


11/14/06 ATL
11/14/06 Behind Enemy Lines
11/14/06 Black Hawk Down BD-50
11/14/06 Fantastic Four
11/14/06 Kingdom of Heaven BD-50, Director's Cut
11/14/06 Kiss of the Dragon
11/14/06 Last Samurai
11/14/06 Layer Cake BD-50
11/14/06 League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
11/14/06 Million Dollar Baby
11/14/06 Omen (666)
11/14/06 Speed
11/14/06 Transporter
11/14/06 X-Men: The Last Stand
11/21/06 Annapolis
11/21/06 Casanova
11/21/06 Enemy of the State BD-50
11/21/06 Flightplan BD-50
11/21/06 Goal! The Dream Begins
11/21/06 Ice Age: The Meltdown
11/21/06 Sky High
11/21/06 Wild
11/22/06 Blood: The Last Vampire Japan only
11/28/06 Ant Bully
11/28/06 Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
11/28/06 Superman Returns BD-50
11/28/06 Superman: The Movie BD-50
11/28/06 Windtalkers
12/5/06 A Christmas Story
12/5/06 Architect
12/5/06 Bulletproof Monk
12/5/06 Flight of the Phoenix
12/5/06 From Hell BD-50
12/5/06 National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
12/5/06 Rising Sun
12/5/06 Rocky
12/6/06 AIR TV series, Japan only
12/12/06 Devil Wears Prada
12/12/06 Kung Fu Hustle
12/12/06 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby BD-50
12/12/06 World Trade Center BD-50
12/19/06 All the King's Men
12/19/06 Invincible
12/19/06 Lady in the Water
12/19/06 Pearl Harbor BD-50
12/26/06 Descent BD-50
12/26/06 Transporter 2
1/2/07 Covenant
1/16/07 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
1/16/07 Winged Migration
1/23/07 Alien vs. Predator
1/23/07 Black Rain
1/23/07 Commando
1/23/07 Courage Under Fire
1/23/07 Manchurian Candidate
1/23/07 Men of Honor
1/23/07 Saw II
1/23/07 We Were Soldiers
2/6/07 American Psycho
2/6/07 Failure to Launch
2/6/07 Rambo: First Blood
2/6/07 Reservoir Dogs
2/13/07 Broken Arrow
2/13/07 Chain Reaction
2/13/07 Entrapment
2/13/07 Phone Booth
2/13/07 Planet of the Apes
2/13/07 Princess Bride
2/13/07 Sentinel
2/13/07 Usual Suspects



Amityville Horror - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Armageddon -
Bad Boys II - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Basic Instinct - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Batman Begins -
Big Fish - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Bram Stoker's Dracula -
Bridge on the River Kwai -
Caddyshack - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at IFA 2006
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Chicken Little - Not a launch title, to be released later in 2006
Chronicles of Narnia - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Chronos -
Constantine -
Crank -
Crimson Tide - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Da Vinci Code -
Day After Tomorrow - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Desperado -
Dukes of Hazzard -
Dune - TV miniseries aka Frank Herbert's Dune
Employee of the Month -
Everest -
Exorcism of Emily Rose -
For a Few Dollars More -
Gattaca -
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence - Japan only
Goodfellas - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Green Mile - Not yet announced, but Warner has stated that they will release all their titles in both formats
Guns of Navarone -
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - Not yet announced, but Warner has stated that they will release all their titles in both formats
Hero -
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at IFA 2006
Hostel -
Ice Age -
Incredibles - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Independence Day - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Kill Bill Vol. 1 -
King Arthur - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Ladder 49 -
Lawrence of Arabia - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Legends of the Fall -
Master and Commander - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Matrix -
Matrix Reloaded - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Mission Impossible - Not a launch title, to be released later in 2006
Mission Impossible II - Not a launch title, to be released later in 2006
Moulin Rouge - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
New Cinema Paradise - Japan only
Ocean's Twelve -
Once Upon a Time in Mexico - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Patriot - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Perfect Storm - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at IFA 2006
Pirates of the Caribbean - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at IFA 2006
Professionals -
Project PAPO - Japan only
Resident Evil - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Resident Evil: Apocalypse -
Robocop -
Saw III -
Scooby-Doo -
See No Evil -
Sense and Sensibility -
Spider-Man - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Spider-Man 2 - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
Stargate Atlantis - TV series
Starship Troopers - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at IFA 2006
Steamboy - Japan only
Step Into Liquid -
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines -
Troy -
Twister -
Vertical Limit - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
X2: X-Men United - Not yet announced, but featured as coming soon at IFA 2006
xXx: State of the Union - Not yet announced, but packaging shown at CES 2006
Young Guns -

[jcll2002]

will it just be higher quality or what?

[Enderet]

Higher quality in terms of the video transfer, and higher quality audio. As well as the possibility of more features, PIP commentaries, and more.

[Enderet]

I need to look up some of these to see what people say about them. I am particularly interested in Terminator, which I dont expect to be much better than the sd dvd. I am also very very excited about Young Guns and Rocky... /drool at rocky in HD.

[Dukefrukem]

no Matrix interest?? thats what im lookin at ... but i already spent $100 on the entire Matrix box set :uhoh:

[Enderet]

I posted this in another thread, pertaining to HD DVDs, but after reading into it some more, I realized that it also applies to Blu Ray movies. So, if one of you guys is planning on picking up some Blu-Ray discs for the PS3 which is less than a week away, this deal might be fore you.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Enderet

For anybody that might be contemplating buying this add-on, and starting a HD-DVD collection, you might want to hit up amazon.com

They currently have a deal, in which if you buy 2 HD DVDs, you get a 10% discount on HD DVDs for the rest of the year.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custom...deId=160066011

[Enderet]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dukefrukem

no Matrix interest?? thats what im lookin at ... but i already spent $100 on the entire Matrix box set :uhoh:

I remember there being a report of the Matrix collection being released both on HD DVD and Blu Ray. In fact, the little insert thingy that came in the Last Samurai box has Matrix HD DVD as a planned 2006 release.

[jcll2002]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dukefrukem

no Matrix interest?? thats what im lookin at ... but i already spent $100 on the entire Matrix box set :uhoh:

holy crap that will be awesome.

I have a 720P 42" plasma but a regular progressive scan dvd player. Will i need to get a bluray player?

[Enderet]

Quote:

Originally Posted by jcll2002

holy crap that will be awesome.

I have a 720P 42" plasma but a regular progressive scan dvd player. Will i need to get a bluray player?

Since Warner Bros is being neutral in the format war, either a Blu Ray player or HD DVD player should be fine. Or you can get the BluRay/HD DVD combo player, so you can be safe regardless of who comes out winning.

[Dukefrukem]

looks like the early lauch of HDDVD hasn't hurt blu-ray

Blu-ray burning its high-def DVD rival

Quote:

Of the high-definition discs bought by consumers in the first quarter, 70% were in the Blu-ray Disc format and 30% were HD DVD, according to sales figures provided by Home Media Magazine's market research department.

Blu-ray took the lead in February, and its percentage of total sales accelerated to the point where it accounted for nearly three out of every four high-definition discs sold in March.

What's more, when given the choice, consumers are going with Blu-ray. Warner Home Video released "The Departed" the same day, Feb. 13, in both formats. Between then and March 31, consumers bought 53,640 copies of the film on Blu-ray Disc and 31,590 on HD DVD, according to Home Media Magazine's market research, based on studio estimates and Nielsen VideoScan point-of-sale data.

Research also shows that eight of the 10 top-selling high-definition titles in the first quarter were on Blu-ray Disc. At the top of the list is Sony Pictures Home Entertainment's "Casino Royale," which sold through to consumers an estimated 59,680 units in the first quarter. The Blu-ray Disc edition of "Departed" finished second, while the HD DVD version of that Oscar-winning film placed third.

From Jan. 1-March 31, consumers bought almost 1.2 million high-definition discs -- 832,530 Blu-ray units and 359,300 HD DVDs -- according to Home Media Magazine. In March, consumers bought 335,980 Blu-ray Discs and 119,570 HD DVDs.

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Since the high-def format's inception -- HD DVD launched in April 2006, while Blu-ray got rolling two months later -- more than 2.14 million discs have been purchased by consumers: 1.2 million Blu-ray Discs and about 937,500 HD DVDs.

Observers aren't surprised by the disparity, noting that Blu-ray Disc enjoys the support of five of the six major studios, while HD DVD is supported by three of them. Three studios -- Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Buena Vista Home Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment -- are exclusively in the Blu-ray camp, as is mini-major Lionsgate, while Paramount Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video support both formats. Universal Studios Home Entertainment is the only major studio to release titles only in the HD DVD format, which backers claim is easier and cheaper to produce.

"All of this data points to the irrefutable facts that the consumers are voting with their dollars and adopting the revolutionary technology of the Blu-ray Disc," Buena Vista Home Entertainment president Bob Chapek said. "With such beloved titles as 'Pirates of the Caribbean' on the horizon, these numbers will only do one thing: grow."

Added Sony Pictures Home Entertainment president David Bishop: "Breaking the 1 million-unit mark is a significant milestone for Blu-ray because it represents rapidly growing consumer acceptance for this revolutionary platform. I am confident that the numbers will increase and more critical benchmarks will be reached to ensure Blu-ray's position as the leading high-definition format."

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment president Mike Dunn agreed.

"Practically, Blu-ray launched this past November and in just over one business quarter has rocketed to a significant lead," Dunn said. "Consumers are clearly choosing Blu-ray as their high-def format of choice and telling us so at retail cash registers."

The three HD DVD studios wielded weak release slates in the first quarter; behind "Departed," the next biggest-selling HD DVD was "Batman Begins," which had been released in October. The title sold 16,980 HD DVDs in the first quarter, but factoring in its initial sales, it stands at 44,590 units, not far behind "Casino Royale."

Blu-ray supporters also were quick to hail the widening gap between Blu-ray and HD DVD titles.

"It's exactly what we've said all along would happen: The strong support for Blu-ray among movie studio and equipment manufacturers means that consumers have more choices when it comes to players and titles," said Andy Parsons, chair of the Blu-ray Disc Assn.'s U.S. promotion committee. "And they're choosing Blu-ray by an ever-increasing margin."