Re: > New $8.95 Blu-ray titles in April

Looks like a HDMI splitter may be in my future LOL.

LH,

I was in Vegs last year and wanted to see Celine Dion. Tickets were $500. I'm glad that I can now see her in my HT for under $20.

IB... I recommend MONOPRICE.com - always low prices and excellent products. VIEW HERE for a 4x1 HDMI 1.3 splitter (excellent value).

I've purchased cables, etc about 4-5 times from them over the last couple of years, and they ship really fast.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

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Huh? Have there been any "SD" releases on either HI-DEF format? All of those titles are RECENT FILMED PRODUCTIONS, so I don't see how they would only be in 'standard' definition, and on a Blu-ray disc at that!

For marketing reasons, according to a comment posted on CNET: http://www.news.com/5208-10784_3-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=35255&messageID=378775&start=
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If true, BD disks are actually cheaper to produce than DVD's. So now that BD has won, a low budget company can produce SD movies on BD disks in order to allure consumers into buying the movies. We gotta remember that the average consumer has very little knowledge (if any) of the real differences between HD and SD.

This tactic would also explain the low price of only $13.95 ($8.95 Amazon) for a brand new BD movie.

[Post edited by wii-lite on Feb 17, 2008]

wil-lite... of course, Blu-ray discs will ONLY play in a 'Blu-ray' brand player (or PS3). And if I purchased a Blu-ray disc, the feature had better be in HIGH-DEFINITION (1080), or I'm not going to be happy.

And as for Blu-ray disc replication, I believe DVD production costs less than Blu-ray - not more. This fact has been mentioned before.

-JIMI (the Voodoo Child)

[Post edited by Love Hendrix! on Feb 17, 2008]

Celine Dion...in HD? Wow, you must be into horror titles.

For the sake of all that is unholy!!!! Those are SD transfers of the regular SD DVD's that you can buy literally for $1 at Wal*Mart! But hey, they are on Blu-Ray now, so pay 9 times the original cost for the same SD shit. THAT is the Blu-Ray spirit!!