Blu-ray movies gaining momentum

Blu-ray sold 50% of movies just within the last 11 weeks of this year out of the entire number of titles sold since inception to the end of 2007:
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Industry_Trends/Disc_Sales/Disc_Sales:_No_Country_Pushes_Blu-ray_Past_9M_Mark/1595

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"No Country for Old Men" realized 9.8% of its total sales from Blu-ray Disc its first five days in stores,... "Hitman," also released March 11, fared even better, generating 12.6% of its total unit sales from Blu-ray.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/home_entertainment/video/e3if32b8f1fa30457d78668ac733fc7bde1?pn=1

Wow thats incredible.

I for one, have been buying up BDs like crazy. Although it was a great format, HD DVD is D-E-A-D, people. Time to move on...

BTW...

No Country for Old Men:

Great movie - I just hated the end.

I was pleasantly surprised by No Country For Old Men as I thought it was going to be lame. It was a very good movie.

There Will be Blood was brutally boring for me but I did think Daniel Day Lewis was great.

I rented the 'No Country For Old Men' Blu-ray, and to be honest I was glad I didn't buy it sight-unseen. It was OK, and I thought the performances were really good, but I couldn't shake the feeling it had all been done before and didn't contain the kind of originality nor engage me like I had expected, considering it won best picture. I could have sworn that Jones acted this same role before. Among movies of the genre, I found titles like "Fargo" more engaging. Perhaps it's because I found very little I could personally identify with in the characters drawn in "No Country For Old Men".

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Although it was a great format, HD DVD is D-E-A-D, people.

Well said!

No one said HD DVD wasnt dead on this post...why bother with the HD DVD is D-E-A-D comment?
just wondering...
It's good to hear that a Hi Def format is moving up finally...

Quick question...what is the best built combo player available (or coming soon) at the best price?

[Post edited by Jedi_Soljah on Mar 27, 2008]

I think wolfen was addressing richiro33's rolling eyes sarcasm. I could be wrong though.

There are a lot of people who take any good news about Blu-ray adoption pretty hard, regardless of the demise of HD DVD.

As to your question about combo players, probably the Samsung BD-UP5000 is the one to look at. You should be able to snag one at $450 or so. Personally, I'd avoid the combo player thing and keep your present HD DVD player and just go for a Blu-ray standalone later.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on Mar 27, 2008]

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I think wolfen was addressing richiro33's rolling eyes sarcasm. I could be wrong though.

Correct, Skyhawk.

Thanks for the player advise Sky...I may just do that some time in the near future.

-JS

Who said anything about HD DVD.

I was rolling my eyes about skyhawk's confirmation bias, its pathetic.

I'm curious how posting a fact can be construed as being biased.

[Post edited by wolfen on Mar 27, 2008]

It just seemed like a stretch, taking samples of samples. Like some are looking to confirm their choice.

I dunno how HD DVD came into the conversation.

You may want to think about the LG BH200 Combo player as there was a firmware update for it within the past week as it fixes BD 1.1 compatibility, fixes audio and video dropout issues, you can now select 1080P/24 output, and also add TrueHD 7.1 Native decoding - as well as Bitstream output of TrueHD and DTS MA.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1009104

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It just seemed like a stretch, taking samples of samples. Like some are looking to confirm their choice.

Huh?

1. I find it great that high-def media seems to be taking off because I prefer my movies in 1080p rather than 480i. The fact that sales just in the last 11 weeks have matched half the entire sales of Blu-ray since it's introduction up to the beginning of this year is rather news worthy, I would say.

2. I selected both formats. That way I would be certain I'd pick a losing.. oops! I mean winning format. In reality I picked both formats (HD DVD first 15 months ago, Blu-ray almost 9 months ago) because of what I said in #1: I prefer my movies in 1080p rather than 480i.