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05-03-2008, 10:38 PM
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Fox start to double dip already!
Well like many on here I was expecting this, but so soon? Fox, please just bring out Fight Club!
"We warned you that one reason to hold off on boarding the Blu train is that movies released in the past year without sweet BD Live interactive features might be re-released. Today, we got first confirmation of this from Fox, which told us it'll be re-releasing Alien Vs. Predator later this year with a suite of new interactive features. And that's just the beginning.
To be fair, of all the Blu-ray studios, Fox is currently the most pumped about the interactive aspect—a big reason they helped build Blu along with Sony and friends. What Fox is adding doesn't make this a crap double dip, either: It's a multiplayer game woven into the film that you play as it progresses, attacking and killing other players in hopefully the most genuine film interaction to date. Not only do you upload your own avatar, it'll stay in memory and reappear when you buy future AVP titles. Sven Davison, Fox's VP of Worldwide Product Development and Production, said nothing he's seen on HD DVD has come close to this.
Davison also said Fox was looking at three other major franchises for a heavy interactive component. But other studios probably aren't going to be as scrupulous, because they primarily see interactivity as "icing on the cake" rather than potates to the 1080p-and-uncompressed-audio meat.
This of course opens the door for nearly everything already on BD to be double-dipped in the coming year—especially in cases like Warner's, since that studio has already launched more interactive versions of movies on HD DVD while simultaneously putting out lower-featured editions on BD. Would this have happened if the 2.0 spec had been finished from the start?"
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05-03-2008, 11:36 PM
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Re: Fox start to double dip already!
I think you are jumping ahead of yourself with this post. You say 'already' but the quotes all say 'Later This Year.' I expect all of the studios to be releasing Blu Ray titles 'Later This Year.'
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06-03-2008, 12:33 AM
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Re: Fox start to double dip already!
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I think you are jumping ahead of yourself with this post. You say 'already' but the quotes all say 'Later This Year.' I expect all of the studios to be releasing Blu Ray titles 'Later This Year.'
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When I said "already" I meant the plans are in place, not that the blu-rays have been released yet. Thought it would be good to give everyone a heads up 
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06-03-2008, 8:02 AM
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Re: Fox start to double dip already!
Does anyone really care about these interactive features?
What Fox need to do is lower their prices!
Last edited by Ger; 06-03-2008 at 8:40 AM.
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06-03-2008, 8:30 AM
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Re: Fox start to double dip already!
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Does anyone really care about these interactive features?
What Fox need to lower their prices!
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they started to reduce prices on several catalog titles.... 
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06-03-2008, 9:36 AM
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Re: Fox start to double dip already!
would also be nice if they released their catalogue titles region free...
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06-03-2008, 9:57 AM
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Re: Fox start to double dip already!
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Does anyone really care about these interactive features?
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I'm not buying Robocop till I get a disk worthy of it.
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06-03-2008, 10:19 AM
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Re: Fox start to double dip already!
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Well like many on here I was expecting this, but so soon? Fox, please just bring out Fight Club!
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Well, if it's cut like the R2 DVD was (don't know if it's ever been re-submitted and released uncut?) and it we get region locked Blu Ray, they can keep.
Like others have said, I'm not bothered about interactive features, cheaper prices and region-free (so I've got a choice what to buy) is most important to me. |
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06-03-2008, 11:21 AM
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Re: Fox start to double dip already!
There's no doubt that Fox have truly phoned it in with some early releases, and I'm not talking about the lack of "interactive features". 'Kingdom of Heaven' springs straight to mind. Yes, we got the Director's Cut with a glorious transfer (albeit encoded in MPEG2) and a bombastic DTS-MA sound mix presented on a single disc but we didn't get even a smidgen of the comprehensive extras package present on its equivalent 4-Disc DVD release. Would it have been so much trouble to give us all those extras, even in plain old SD, on a second Blu-ray disc? I'll wager we'll see just that at some point...
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06-03-2008, 1:26 PM
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Re: Fox start to double dip already!
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I'm not buying Robocop till I get a disk worthy of it.
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Same here, and as desparate as i am for it, I am also not paying £17 and will wait until its sub £10.
But guys we the consumer have chosen BD and we knew about the new features that were coming with profile 1.1 or 2.0 or whichever it is; so no complaining
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