BD Exclusives Released as HD DVD and V-V

[av-phile]

Does anyone have a list of titles released excusively as BD in the US but released as HD DVD in Europe or Japan? And vice-versa.

[dino2021]

Terminator 2 springs to mind, Lionsgate Blur ray in the USA, Studio Canal HD DVD Europe

[gazzared_typer]

Brothers Grim, and XXX, are japanese HD-DVD which I believe are Blu-ray in the US?

[Dave2]

Resident evil is on hd-dvd in japan and thats a sont production but toshiba had the distro rights.

[Rasczak]

There are hundreds of titles - the Studio Canal portfolio alone contains much of Lionsgate's US titles. On top of that you have a myraid of rights deals that means titles come out on different formats in different regions. Just look at some examples:

- Stargate (MGM ergo BluRay) is coming out on European HD DVD.
- Basic Instinct 2 (Sony/MGM ergo BluRay) is coming out on European HD DVD
- Saw Trilogy (Lionsgate ergo BluRay) although not part of the Studio Canal range is coming out on HD DVD in parts of Europe (e.g. Spain)
- Reign Of Fire (Disney ergo "exclusive" BluRay) is already available on Japanese HD DVD
- Rambo Trilogy (Lionsgate ergo BluRay) is already available on HD DVD

...the list goes on and on - I doubt anyone has a definitive list as each title can have a myraid of distribution deals. Needless to say just because a film is "Disney" doesn't mean it won't appear on HD DVD in some territory. Great not having regional coding isn't it?

The only films that I would say are really format locked are Fox and Universal - these two studios tend to handle all international distribution themselves (so do Warner and Paramount - but that is somewhat moot as they support both formats).