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In Reply to: RE: Here's why HD Media will fail in the mass market posted by racerguy on December 20, 2007 at 17:31:13
I cannot speak to the artistic merits of these 3 releases, but in commercial terms, High School Musical 2 is the blockbuster of these three. It was the highest rated basic cable broadcast in the U.S. It's soundtrack is the 2nd best selling CD of the year, recently just passed by Josh Groban's Noel after Oprah recommended Noel. Whether people are in their right mind or not, this is going to sell far better than Jungle Book. This is probably Disney's hottest property at the end of 2007.
Edits: 12/21/07
I think the poster's point was that Disney is not releasing it's classics on Blu Ray. If they release titles like Jungle Book, Snow White, Cinderella, etc... parents will buy them.
On the other side of the coin... perhaps the reason Disney isn't releasing it's classic cartoon movies on BD is because there is no significant gain in sound/video quality vs. standard DVD.
Take a movie like Snow White which is over 50 years old. Even if they remaster the original tapes to a native 720p or 1080p, will folks REALLY see a difference? Is it REALLY worth the investment and added cost of BD production? Any 5.1 or 7.1 audio will have to be interpolated from the original recording... which probably isn't even true stereo? Just a thought...
I suspect it's far better than 1080p IF the source hasn't already deteriorated and/or re-mastered on lesser-resolution media. Mono recordings? Can't do much with the audio. What you can do is load a re-release with a ton of features/PIP/IME/commentaries/games/etc.... I believe this is the track Disney will take once Blu-ray BD-J "stuff" starts to mature. After all, Disney WILL want to charge premium priced and they'll need to come up with value-added features for the kiddies to drool over.
To me, the reason Disney hasn't released it's "big guns" movies on BD is that the market penetration of BD players (discounting PS3's which most people don't know or care that they play BD movies) is still rather small. Hence a small market for titles that few are going to be interested in buying a second (or third or fourth or...) time. Those o;d movies up-sampled can look darn good, so why shell out $30 -$40 bucks for a movie you already own?
John Crossett___
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