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Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
Made for IE Forum's Episode III theme month - May 2005.
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Originally posted by: Bossk
Looks like Sony won the bidding war for MGM. Check it out here.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
So depressing from a movie lover's perspective that Sony won the bidding war for MGM. HD can go to hell now for all I care.
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
They will, jimbo; they will. Kerkorian is an idiot for not taking Warner's offer; the library would've been treated so much better.
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!
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Originally posted by: Patrick R.
Warner has finally come around in many ways. Next year marks the end of the Snapper Case. They do cause you to double dip a little, but it is usually worth it as the rereleases fix something that was previously wrong like making a film Anamorphic that wasn't before. Also, most of their DVD rereleases are of movies that came out on DVD in the early days, so they are usually much better. I'm very pleased with the new Goodfellas DVD since it is no longer a flipper. It was a flipper before because it was one of the first DVD's ever released and there wasn't any dual layered DVD's at that time.
The only things I don't like about Warner are. There are still some movies need to be released in their original aspect ratio. Also, they do not do DTS or Seamless Branching. Other than that, I can't complain. Thank God the Snappers will be history. I just wish I could get replacement Keep Cases and artwork for the movies I have that are in Snappers. It sucks to have two Austin Powers films in Snappers and one in a Keep Case. The Matrix is the opposite. I like consistency.
Patrick
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Originally posted by: Jay
Warner had some level of ownership in the company that manufactured the snapper cases. That's why they've used them for so long. I believe that relationship is over now, which is why you're seeing new releases in keepcases.
Warner is probably my favorite studio when it comes to DVDs. Their releases are consistently reference-quality, and as Patrick says, their re-releases offer genuine improvements over the original disc. The Good Fellas remaster is gorgeous. One of those DVDs that makes my DLP projector look like it's projecting film.
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
I really havent been following the whole Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD thing, I have read a few things and my impression was Blu-Ray is ahead of HD-DVD as far as being released, but while I understand that this forum is mainly focused on how the technology relates to movies and their releases you have to realize that with technology like this its ability to take hold of the market is going to be based on more than just its video quality.
For instance, Jimbo keeps repeating that even though HD-DVD can store less data (roughly 30 gigs vs 50) that due to its encoding it can hold more/better quality video. While this may be true I have to ask/offer, doesnt the encoding in and of its self hurt the quality...Im honestly not as up on the video codecs (or even audio ones for that matter) as id like to be, so i dont know, is MPEG4 a lossless compression?
But even still, this technology spans more than just movies. People who are more in touch with the pure computer side of this technology as I am will much prefer a 50 gig disc compared to a 30 gig disc. Albeit the price point has to be comparable. Im sure most of this information is known already, but the point im trying to make is that i think blu-ray is a more versitile format.
Im not backing or making a claim that Blu-Ray will win over HD-DVD just that in my opinion its more versitile.
Darth Simon
ps..mainly to jimbo, but also cause i didnt see it in this thread, Blu-Ray will be supporting MPEG4 according to their site http://www.blu-ray.com/faq/#1.8 sure its their PR guys saying it, but its kinda hard to lie about that kind of stuff without it biting you in the arse
Princess Leia: I happen to like nice men.
Han Solo: I'm a nice man.