[Stuart Wright]

AV Podcast : Movies : 14th Jan 2007
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00:44 DVD and HD disk news
10:47 Snakes On A Plane Region 1 DVD Review
13:30 Doctor Who Season 2 DVD Review
22:10 Round table disussion. The team preview the movies and DVDs coming in 2007.

[charliecossie]

So the HD news is presented by a couple of HD-DVD fanboys......
All the coming Blu-ray releases are crap (forgetting to mention Cars, Pirates, Bond, etc) and the HD-DVD releases are all brilliant (Warners - on both formats).

Grow up!

[Seth Gecko]

Originally Posted by charliecossie

So the HD news is presented by a couple of HD-DVD fanboys......
All the coming Blu-ray releases are crap (forgetting to mention Cars, Pirates, Bond, etc) and the HD-DVD releases are all brilliant (Warners - on both formats).

Grow up!

Hate to break it to you - I own both formats.

Of course, movie taste is subjective, but your 3 examples aren't inspiring me either.

Fanboy? Not at all. Grow up? You might just someday.

[Phil Hinton]

Originally Posted by charliecossie

So the HD news is presented by a couple of HD-DVD fanboys......

That is so far from the truth it's unreal, we have both formats and one thing that keeps getting stressed is that we want to have the best format whatever that is. The piece I think you are refering too is subjective as movie tastes can be.

Now let me guess....you have a blu ray player

The whole nonsense on the forums with the fanboy jibes is getting tiring and to aim them at the podcast team who are nothing more then film fans with no agendas (We have both format machines, so its not like we are taking sides) is way off the mark.

If thats what you think then fine, don't listen to the podcast, it's free after all so its not like we stole your pocket money.

(Oh and if I was you I wouldn't listen to this weeks Movies one either as we review 3 HD DVD discs and heap praise on them, so we must be biased!)

[charliecossie]

I have a Panasonic BD10, an XBox add-on and, hopefully, a Toshiba XE1 within the next couple of weeks. Methinks, I'm unbiased.

"(We have both format machines, so its not like we are taking sides)"
I suggest you listen to your own broadcast again and perhaps you'd see how biased it comes across as.

"Lot of talk on the forums at the moment, especially from the Blu-ray fan-boys......"
"The announcements are plentiful, the movies are absolute crap...."
"Matt Damon's in it...." Hehehe
"Blu-ray may have the quantity, the quality speaks for itself".

[Seth Gecko]

Originally Posted by charliecossie

"Lot of talk on the forums at the moment, especially from the Blu-ray fan-boys......"
"The announcements are plentiful, the movies are absolute crap...."
"Matt Damon's in it...." Hehehe
"Blu-ray may have the quantity, the quality speaks for itself".

The "Bluray fanboys" are making a huge deal of the number of titles. The movies that are being released, in my opinion, are not killer "apps" that the format needs.

The Matrix and Harry Potter movies will most likely appear on HD-DVD first, because that's Warners M.O. at the moment.

I've got 3 Blu-Ray titles on order currently, I've just received 1 Blu-Ray title and 1 HD-DVD title today. I've got my eye on a few HD-DVD titles. IF Star Wars was announced in the next few days, even though I hate the movies, that would give Blu-Ray a huge advantage over HD-DVD as those are among the most sought after movies. The simple fact is - THEY HAVEN'T. There is still no killer app on either format in my opinion. The movies you've mentioned aren't. Heck, someone was excited about Alien Vs Predator coming out on Blu-Ray. That movie is an absolute abortion of all things cinematic!

So, at the moment, the only major releases out on the formats (In my opinion) are Batman Begins (not my fav Bat-Movie) and Harry Potter. The Matrix is arguably the biggest title announced on the HD formats. If they'd announced Toy Story or Monsters Inc. over Cars, that would have been a huge announcement. But they didn't - they seem to be holding back, but I have no idea why.

Don't forget there's also the issues over codecs, with MPEG2 still being generally scorned still.

Sony are not doing themselves any favours whatsoever. If they want to make Blu-Ray more popular, then convince them to release the right movies.

For fear of going around in circles - the day that Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or something of that magnitude is announced, the format war will have a huge shift. I don't care WHICH one wins, but they need to stop using pea-shooters and bring out some heavy hitters to shift this current situation.

(I've no idea why you mention Matt Damon BTW)

[Phil Hinton]

Originally Posted by charliecossie

"Lot of talk on the forums at the moment, especially from the Blu-ray fan-boys......"
"The announcements are plentiful, the movies are absolute crap...."
"Matt Damon's in it...." Hehehe
"Blu-ray may have the quantity, the quality speaks for itself".

No, that's not being biased, thats reporting what is happening, i.e. Fanboys do exist and chat on the forums, plentiful releases but are you seriously saying Alien v Predator is a must have film? If you listened to our other podcast you will know we have already announced the other films you mentioned.
To me it's accurate reporting of facts with our own personal slants as DVD film reviewers on the quality issues. I don't see any bias at all, but people who do see a bias are sometimes biased themselves.
I am sick of the whole format fanboy thing as I am sure most people are, we want the best films on the best formats, I couldn't care if thats a Sony format or anything else, you obviously have read things into the comments that are not there or you percieve thinsg differently to what is intended.