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Troy DC on DVD, HD-DVD, and . . . . blu-ray

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According to www.digitalbits.com, Troy: Director's Cut, with 30 minutes tacked onto the theatrical version, will be released on 9/18/07.

I really enjoyed this movie, though YMMV.

Here is what I find interesting: it is being releasead on DVD, HD-DVD, and this time around, blu-ray. IIRC, Warner has not previously released this movie in blu-ray.

No, I don't think this proves that blu-ray is winning the format war. I'm format neutral.

If a studio is not HD-DVD exclusive (as Universal is), then I can't understand why they (e.g., Warner) would release a blockbluster movie such as Troy only in the HD-DVD format.

http://www.digitalbits.com/#mytwocents (Open in New Window)

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I guess this explains why the original HD-DVD of Troy is on sale at Best Buy for $14.99. - Dalton 12:05:37 07/12/07 (1)
$14.99's worth of Troy is all I need. Got Goodfellas for $14.99 too. I wonder if a new cut of that is coming out as well?
- I doubt it. Fry's Electronics offers several HD-DVD and blu-ray - townsend 17:17:16 07/12/07 (0)
  each week for prices in that range: 2 blu-rays for 25.00 (from a select list), or individual titles for 13.00-14.00 each.
3 1/2 hours movies push the limits for today's HD video formats. - oscar 21:15:15 07/11/07 (0)
The original "300" HD-DVD got mixed reviews for Picture quality and I expect a Director's cut with an extra 30 minutes would provide an even bigger challenge when trying to juggle around storage capacity and bandwidth limitations. OTOH, there's been some "lessons learned" in VC-1 compression techniques since the last "300" release which might make this effort a tad bit better. We shall see.

Given the levels of compression required to get from the Master video tape (1-2Gbs to 10-40 Mbs to either HD-DVD/Blu-Ray, I'm not convinced either format will give me a HD video presentation "perceivably transparent" to the Master tape. Is there a threshold which can perceptibly separate HD-DVD from Blu-Ray because of the Blu-Ray's "technical superiority" in storage and bandwidth ? The jury is still out in IMHO though it appears to me AQ via uncompressed PCM gives Blu-Ray an immediately perceptible sonic edge.

And yeah, I'll continue to point out that what might be "good enough" for HD-DVD is not a convincing argument to NOT want Blu-ray to win just because there isn't convincing (damning ?) evidence (yet) to suggest Blu-ray's superior specs are manifested in general WRT PQ.

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