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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.
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Some people have to be reminded again.
Reminder: Please post within individual threads that were set up when I helped get this Forum created. We are getting so many threads being started for so many things that could all be in one place that it makes it hard to find anything. Individual threads were created at the very beginning of the Forum and still exist here.
There is a thread dedicated to Upcoming Releases. Please post your info in there if ytou have something to share with the rest. A good idea id to check to see if someone already has listed the info before you do.
There is a thread for Special Sales.
There are individual threads for reviewing classic DVDs broken down into genres (Western, War, Horror, etc.) where you can post your reviews.
This keeps the Classic Film DVD Reviews Forum a much neater place and better organzized.. Thanks.
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CelluloidKid, I ask you once more to please place this sort of listing in the Upcoming Releases thread, not in a thread by itself. Let's keep the boards organized. Also, the WB info you placed the other day in a separate thread had already been posted about a week or so ago in the Upcoming Releases thread.
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Some news today from digitalbits.com which may already be known but shows the care that WB takes with the classics:
Warner Bros. has Quo Vadis in the lab now and a 2008 release is planned, most likely in the fourth quarter. Raintree County is less certain as to timing as the studio is intent on releasing the road show version. To that end, it has involved dealing with a collector's print and marrying various portions to Warners' master. The studio continues to look for even better elements, so at this time it is impossible to gage the release date. A BD release for these titles cannot yet be confirmed, but it is Warners' intention to release as many special editions day and date SD and BD as possible.
Both of these titles are examples of the imprecise timeline that bringing classic titles to market is subject to. Warners has tried to be candid about their release plans and sometimes it's been to the studio's detriment as classic enthusiasts get wedded to a specific release year or quarter that the studio has mentioned in a chat and then are upset when a particular title doesn't appear. Such changes are due to any number of things including legal issues, imprecise restoration and remastering timelines, element surprises/availability, market opportunities, and so on. Classic fans should be aware that the studio is intent in bringing the many classic titles that they are looking for to the market as quickly as it can and in a condition that fans will be happy with.
Warners has also confirmed that they are working on This Is the Army right at this time. Quite a bit of work is needed, however, so release timing is not possible to tell at present.
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mateo, there will be competition. Now the competition is between the different Blu player manufacturers for best price. Just like all the different manufacturers of DVD players now. And there will be competition on disc prices between studios to get discs out at the lowest price, like studios do with DVDs.
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Hi, Vallo,
What you read yesterday would have been the pre-conference possibilities. The post below is the official Toshiba press release for the press conference that took place today (Monday) at 12 AM PST (5 PM Tokyo time).
As for upconverting, that can look good but it won't match actual high definition. For example, on a classic like The Searchers, the standard DVD looks excellent but when you compare it side by side (like I have done) to the Blu-ray high def disc, there is no comparison. The details and depth on the Blu-ray are superb. Watching on my Sony 46XBR4, I feel like I am actually there in person watching it being filmed, it is that incredible.
Another possibility to the Playstation 3 is the Panasonic DMP-BD30K which has 1.1 profile (which includes PiP).
filmlover
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New consumers who were wanting to get into high definition no longer have to hold off for fear of picking up the format that would lose (remember VHS vs. Betamax?).
Blu-ray is the winner!. HD DVD is through.
Here is the official release from Toshiba from this morning announcing their withdrawing HD DVD:
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...51&newsLang=en
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.
HD DVD was developed to offer consumers access at an affordable price to high-quality, high definition content and prepare them for the digital convergence of tomorrow where the fusion of consumer electronics and IT will continue to progress.
?We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called 'next-generation format war' and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop,? said Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation. "While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality.?
Toshiba will continue to lead innovation, in a wide range of technologies that will drive mass market access to high definition content. These include high capacity NAND flash memory, small form factor hard disk drives, next generation CPUs, visual processing, and wireless and encryption technologies. The company expects to make forthcoming announcements around strategic progress in these convergence technologies.
Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008. Toshiba also plans to end volume production of HD DVD disk drives for such applications as PCs and games in the same timeframe, yet will continue to make efforts to meet customer requirements. The company will continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives within the overall PC business relative to future market demand.
This decision will not impact on Toshiba?s commitment to standard DVD, and the company will continue to market conventional DVD players and recorders. Toshiba intends to continue to contribute to the development of the DVD industry, as a member of the DVD Forum, an international organization with some 200 member companies, committed to the discussion and defining of optimum optical disc formats for the consumer and the related industries.
Toshiba also intends to maintain collaborative relations with the companies who joined with Toshiba in working to build up the HD DVD market, including Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation and major Japanese and European content providers on the entertainment side, as well as leaders in the IT industry, including Microsoft, Intel, and HP. Toshiba will study possible collaboration with these companies for future business opportunities, utilizing the many assets generated through the development of HD DVD.
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Normally, I would have posted this only in the classic DVD reviews section of the TCM Forum, but it is newsworthy and it now gets the studios behind one high definition player and disc only, Blu-ray. New consumers who were wanting to get into high definition no longer have to hold off for fear of picking up the format that would lose (remember VHS vs. Betamax?).
Blu-ray is the winner!.
Here is the official release from Toshiba from this morning announcing their withdrawing HD DVD:
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...51&newsLang=en
TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.
HD DVD was developed to offer consumers access at an affordable price to high-quality, high definition content and prepare them for the digital convergence of tomorrow where the fusion of consumer electronics and IT will continue to progress.
?We carefully assessed the long-term impact of continuing the so-called 'next-generation format war' and concluded that a swift decision will best help the market develop,? said Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation. "While we are disappointed for the company and more importantly, for the consumer, the real mass market opportunity for high definition content remains untapped and Toshiba is both able and determined to use our talent, technology and intellectual property to make digital convergence a reality.?
Toshiba will continue to lead innovation, in a wide range of technologies that will drive mass market access to high definition content. These include high capacity NAND flash memory, small form factor hard disk drives, next generation CPUs, visual processing, and wireless and encryption technologies. The company expects to make forthcoming announcements around strategic progress in these convergence technologies.
Toshiba will begin to reduce shipments of HD DVD players and recorders to retail channels, aiming for cessation of these businesses by the end of March 2008. Toshiba also plans to end volume production of HD DVD disk drives for such applications as PCs and games in the same timeframe, yet will continue to make efforts to meet customer requirements. The company will continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives within the overall PC business relative to future market demand.
This decision will not impact on Toshiba?s commitment to standard DVD, and the company will continue to market conventional DVD players and recorders. Toshiba intends to continue to contribute to the development of the DVD industry, as a member of the DVD Forum, an international organization with some 200 member companies, committed to the discussion and defining of optimum optical disc formats for the consumer and the related industries.
Toshiba also intends to maintain collaborative relations with the companies who joined with Toshiba in working to build up the HD DVD market, including Universal Studios, Paramount Pictures, and DreamWorks Animation and major Japanese and European content providers on the entertainment side, as well as leaders in the IT industry, including Microsoft, Intel, and HP. Toshiba will study possible collaboration with these companies for future business opportunities, utilizing the many assets generated through the development of HD DVD.
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Reminder: Please post within individual threads that were set up when this Forum was created. We are getting so many threads being started for so many things that could all be in one place that it makes it hard to find anything. Individual threads were created at the very beginning of the Forum and still exist here.
There is a thread dedicated to Upcoming Releases. Please post your info in there if ytou have something to share with the rest. A good idea id to check to see if someone already has listed the info before you do.
There is a thread for Special Sales.
There are individual threads for reviewing classic DVDs broken down into genres (Western, War, Horror, etc.) where you can post your reviews.
This keeps the Classic Film DVD Reviews Forum a much neater place and better organzized.. Thanks.
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Reminder: Please post special sales information in this thread and not in individual new threads. Having it all here in one place makes it easier to find, rather than going through thread after thread. It also keeps the Classic Film DVD Reviews Forum a much neater place. Thanks.
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Reminder: Please post upcoming release information in this thread and not in individual new threads. Having it all here in one place makes it easier to find, rather than going through thread after thread. It also keeps the Classic Film DVD Reviews Forum a much neater place. Thanks.
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Celluloid, this information was posted a few days ago in the Upcoming Releases thread.
This gives me a chance to ask you to post your info about new releases in the Upcoming Releases thread and not create new threads for everything. Same with special sales has a thread. As do individual reviews of DVD releases in their individual categories (Horror, War, Comedy, etc.).
I was the one who requested the Classic Film DVD Reviews Forum be created and I originated most of the threads here. I wanted it to be a neat layout where people could find info easily. Unfortunately, by doing a new thread for each special title release or upcoming news item, it truly makes a mess of this Forum. You are very welcome here, but please put your info in the appropriate threads. Thanks. (It will also give you a chance to see if someone has already listed your info.)
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Hi, Miss G, the info about the WB announcement of releases in Blu and standard is a little further down this page (Blu will also have An American in Paris and Gigi sometime this year).
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chinaseas, in a followup at digitalbits.com. they mention that thiis is just the to of the ieberg, that Warner plans about 50 films to celebrate its 85th anniversary.
I am overjoyed they are releasing a number of the classics on Blu-ray, too. Among them: An American in Paris, How the West Was Won, Gigi, and , not previously mentioned, Ben-Hur on Blu-ray. Previously on HD DVD but now coming to Blu will be Mutiny on the Bounty, Forbidden Planet, Casablanca, and the first probably will be Adventures of Robin Hood.
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Hey, it's Wednesday morning and I got a special bits of news for my birthday today...the new Warner Bros. release info. (Now, some of this we already know, but there is some good stuff in here, so be kind and remember it is my birthday)
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from Digitalbits.com:
The planned 2008 slate itself is broken up into NINE different promotions: Oscars, Gangsters, Sinatra, Dirty Harry, 85 Years of Superheroes, Westerns, Musicals, Horror and Holiday. Warner revealed that Best Buy and Amazon.com are set to be the studio's official retail partners for these promotions.
Starting in the 1st Quarter, the Oscar and Gangster promotions will include the Bonnie and Clyde: Ultimate Collector's Edition (available on DVD, Blu-ray and HD-DVD) and the Bonnie and Clyde: Special Edition, along with such titles as the Goodfellas: Special Edition, the Heat: Special Edition, the Once Upon a Time in America: Special Edition, the Departed, the True Romance: Special Edition, the Film Noir Classics Collection: Volumes 1-4, the Warner Bros. Tough Guys Collection, the Warner Gangsters Collection (featuring titles like Public Enemy, Little Caesar, etc) and more.
The Sinatra and Dirty Harry promotions will debut in the 2nd Quarter. Sinatra will include the Sinatra mini-series, along with the four box sets we mentioned yesterday (The Early Years, The Golden Years, the Sinatra & Kelly Collection and the Rat Pack: Ultimate Collector's Edition - the Rat Pack: UCE will include "first-run" stamps, a music CD and other rare collectibles). The Dirty Harry promotion will include the Dirty Harry: 2-Disc Special Edition, the Magnum Force: Deluxe Edition, The Enforcer: Deluxe Edition, the Sudden Impact: Deluxe Edition and the Dead Pool: Deluxe Edition. All five films will also be included in a Dirty Harry: Ultimate Collector's Edition box set (available in DVD, Blu-ray and HD-DVD), which will also feature the Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows bonus disc.
The 3rd Quarter will offer Superhero fans something exciting: a Batman Begins: Limited Collector's Edition Gift Set on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, as well as a Batman Anthology box set of all the feature film titles on Blu-ray Disc. These are obviously timed to coincide with the DVD and Blu-ray release of The Dark Knight. Additional superhero releases are TBA. The 3rd Quarter will also offer several Western releases, including a How the West Was Won: Ultimate Collector's Edition and a How the West Was Won: Special Edition, along with such titles as The Searchers, The Wild Bunch, The Cowboys, an Errol Flynn Westerns Collection and a Western Classics Collection. Finally, the 3rd Quarter will see a Music promotion featuring new special editions of An American in Paris and Gigi, as well the debut of the Classic Musicals from the Dream Factory: Volume 3 box set, featuring Hit the Deck, Kismet, Deep in My Heart, Broadway Melody of 1936/Broadway Melody of 1938, Born to Dance/Lady Be Good and Nancy Goes to Rio/Two Weeks with Love.
Rounding out 2008, the 4th Quarter will see the debut of a new DVD Horror collection with titles featuring Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and others, as well as more horror releases from Val Lewton and Joel Silver's Dark Castle label, re-promotion of Kubrick's The Shining and a number of new Raw Feed direct-to-DVD and Blu-ray titles, including Otis: Uncut. The 4th Quarter will also see a Warner Bros. Holiday Collection and A Christmas Story: Ultimate Collector's Edition.
As part of the year's overall slate, more than 50 new-to-DVD feature films will be restored and released from the Warner catalog alone, including such titles as All This and Heaven Too, The Beast with Five Fingers, Black Legion, Brother Orchid, Deception, Flamingo Road, Gold Diggers of 1937, Inside Daisy Clover, Kid Galahad, Lady Killer, The Mayor of Hell, Night Nurse, None But the Brave, Pete Kelly's Blues, San Antonio, Thank Your Lucky Stars, Three on a March, Virginia City and Watch on the Rhine.
Other titles set to be given special edition treatment this year are Cool Hand Luke, Gypsy, Risky Business, Splendor in the Grass and others yet to be announced. Additional thematic box sets will be drawn from Warner's classic MGM and RKO collections. It was also revealed that a collection of Natalie Woods titles is in the works.
Several special events will be held throughout the course of the year, including an August 31st Warner Big Picture night at the Hollywood Bowl, celebrating the studio's musical legacy. The highlight of the year's events will be the broadcast and DVD release of Richard Schickel's 5-part documentary series You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story on the history of the studio, narrated by Clint Eastwood. The broadcast version will debut in September, as part of PBS's American Masters series, and a 550-page companion book (by Schickel and The Times of London film critic George Perry) will be released as well. As part of last night's event, Schickel gave the media a 10-minute sneak peek at a portion of his documentary series examining Warner films in the context of World War II.
The studio also revealed during the event that last year's Blade Runner: Five-Disc Ultimate Collector's Edition and Harry Potter: Years 1-5 - Limited Edition Collection were tremendously successful releases, generating more than $20 million in combined sales in the 45-day holiday period alone.
In terms of new titles in the year ahead, you can obviously look forward to the DVD and Blu-ray debut of such theatrical release films as The Dark Knight, Speed Racer, Get Smart, Where the Wild Things Are, 10,000 B.C. and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price, later in 2008 and early 2009.
Finally, studio reps revealed that 4 major catalog titles (The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Woodstock and North by Northwest) are all soon going on moratorium. The good news is, each will reappear in 2009 in day-and-date DVD and Blu-ray Disc releases, complete with stunning new high-definition restorations to celebrate their own individual anniversaries."
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I'm bumping up the individual genre threads so people know where to place items or reviews about a particular genre.