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No Blu-Ray For ''Transformers;'' Release on HD-DVD
By bwbm on Monday, August 20, 2007
Note: This announcement from Paramount is in regard to only the high-definition format. The movie will still be released on standard definition DVD format.
Paramount Pictures announced today that they will shun the Blu-Ray format and exclusively support the HD-DVD format in the next-generation DVD format war.
In a joint press release with Dreamworks Animation SKG, the spun-off animation division of Paramount-owned Dreamworks SKG, the studios announced their deal that will start with "Blades of Glory" on August 28th and follow with "Transformers" and "Shrek the Third". No release dates were given for the latter two movies.
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Re: Paramount Nixes Blu-Ray, Goes HD-DVD w/ ''Transformers,'' Others (Score: 1) by wisesky on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 09:20:10 AM
Thats some bullshit right there... dammit... i guess i will have to buy the regular dvd version... that sucks...
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by Style92 on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 10:42:15 AM
Well, that just goes to show. Don't upgrade from DVD until either HD or Blue-Ray finally gains prominence. Multi-home video formats is what's BS...
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by Blitzwing on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 11:00:30 AM
Score one for Toshiba. I am hoping HD-DVD becomes the standard and BluRay (read: Sony) goes the way of the Mini-Disc, the DAT and the BetaMax. Sony is just too damn proud and protective of their innovations to make them appealing.
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by bob on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 11:03:10 AM
The way the whole thing is being handled bothers me.
I've seen HD in professional settings for years. I have mixed feelings about the format. It looks too sharp to my eye. And if you really want some dirt on the format, check out a movie with rain or smoke in it. At this point the format can't handle it, and it looks terrible (pirates of the carribean 2 is a great example). I'm sure this will be fixed eventually. It's certainly not an awful format.
But my REAL gripe is this. I was over at a friends house who has an HD TV recently. Non HD cable, or Non HD DVD (what we all have), look absolutely horrendous on this format. Much worse than VHS looks on a normal TV. So once you upgrade, anything you don't repurchase in the new format will aparently look like crap.
I've begun wondering recently if this is truly an issue of incompatibility, or if stuff was designed this way to force us to repurchase stuff we already have. I have no idea, but would you put it past these guys?
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by bob on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 11:05:49 AM
Say what you will about Sony as a corporation, Mini DV and Beta are and were both the profesional standard for years because they were superior formats. They know what they're doing.
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by lord_onixprime on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 11:34:40 AM
is great, i hope blu-ray dies as fast as the ps3 is dieing.
i almost feel sorry for the poor guy who spent way to much on a blu-ray player, or sony's glorified version, the ps3.
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by PrestoMovie on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 11:50:14 AM
YAY!
this makes me VERY happy that I bought my HD DVD player for my Xbox 360 a couple weeks ago.
and I was kinda wishing like all this week that one of the studios would go hd exclusive.
not cause i was worried for hd dvd, but because i just wanted to see it happen.
and it has.
can't wait to see Jazz get ripped in half in HD.
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by HMRC4EVR on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 12:00:25 PM
So basically there's not going to be a regular DVD release for the couple of million of us who only have a normal DVD player and we're going to be forced to buy another player just to watch a movie we really like?
Please someone tell me I'm reading this all wrong. Otherwise this is a heaping load of slag fresh from the field.
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by vega-starscream on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 12:16:47 PM
I Hated this HD-DVD and Blue Ray war since the start, Its reminded me awful memories during the VHS Vs Beta era. tell me if I'm wrong but now if we bought a system format over the other, chances we will never get all movies we want and hinder our movie library, don't tell me there will be exclusives in HD format and sure to be exclusive also in blue-ray, this sucks, at least as I remember, every movie was available in beta and Vhs.
For the moment I will wait and don't buy either format player and just content wil the DVD, besides, I still have a regular TV so why bother.
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by Blitzwing on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 12:41:52 PM
1) I realize that BetaMax, DAT and MD were 'professional' formats. However, the majority of the world doesn't give a rat's tail about professional. IS IT CHEAP? That's all they care. Same with Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD. HD is gonna win because it's priced less than Blu-Ray. And in this day and age when housing is taking a dive and foreclosures is becoming the buzzword, it's all about the price. This is the same with Plasma vs LCD TVs. LCD is taking the lead, and I'll eventually buy an LCD screen. It's superior because the lifespan is longer and the technology is going to become much more affordable in the next 2-5yrs. That's my opinion anyhow.
2) Paramount would be stupid NOT to offer the movie in a standard DVD format. There is a scant minority of the world that has bought into the "super" DVD format. Personally, I'm still on the fence. Like any other new technology, I'm going to wait until one is a resounding winner. Until then, keep my standard DVDs coming.
3) In order for a "super" DVD format to work right, you would have to have everything downwind of the player in "super" format as well. That means a HDMI compliant TV set (which most of the newer Plasma/LCD screens have as an option) with HDMI cabling. Anything less than 720p (720p = 720 lines per screen) is going to compromise the "super" DVD quality. It was designed to work on a 720p TV. Older TVs are 400-600p, meaning it can't compensate right.
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by Primal-Convoy on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 03:27:02 PM
Put it this way:
If the all-singing, all dancing version of the movie is NOT out on regular DVD, then I will download or buy the pirated version.
Im serious here. I am a customer and I dont belirve in piracy. However if Paramount fails to give me what I want then I will take my business elsewhere.
Even if it is to the Russian or Chinese mafia in order to get the "correct" full regular DVD release.
I dont even feel guilty about this if Paramount wants to steal my money by forcing me to upgrade my player, TV and cables just to watch their movie then they can honestly kiss my skid-plate.
Arent torrent sites wonderful things?
Re: Paramount ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by Style92 on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 03:38:20 PM
Let's not lose our heads here.
The movie IS DEFINITELY coming to Standard DVD. Both Bare bones and bell and whistles.
All this press release means is that it's not getting a Blu-Ray version.
Re: Paramount's ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by Zhen on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 07:57:03 PM
So does this mean that HDDVD will win?
I'm waiting for the war to choose sides, before I buy a player :o
Re: Paramount's ''Transformers'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by TomPrime on Monday, August 20, 2007 @ 11:54:59 PM
Michael Bay posted on his own forums that this pisses him off and he won't do Transformers 2.
I don't care if it's Blu Ray or HD DVD, but at least this opened up the chance to get a different director aboard. Not that I didn't enjoy the movie, but I also wasn't really happy about the overall designs.
Re: No Blu-Ray For ''Transformers,'' Release on HD-DVD Only (Score: 1) by Prowl78 on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 @ 02:48:38 AM
Wow, this is turning out to be huge!
Im feeling bad about the blue ray being pushed off. What will happen to PS3 afterwards? ;p
Re: No Blu-Ray For ''Transformers;'' Release on HD-DVD, DVD (Score: 1) by reddeth on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 @ 05:42:27 AM
The designs were passable, but looked dumb in comparison to the Citroen adds. They look even more dumb because one of Bays initial tenets was to avoid mass shifting, which now seems pointless due to the amount that big cube/all spark thing mass shifts. :/ The transformations looked very 'bitty' (lots of tiny little bits folding up) and as a result messy. The components that make up the humanoid form lack colour definition and look like a load of junk (I.E. scrap etc.) piled together to make a person shape (frenzy excepted).
Why on earth does prime have so many parts to his face, why do his eyes have silly eyebrow things that seem to be pointless except from an anthropomorisation point of view. Am I supposed to believe primes face looks like that so he can communicate with humans more effectively?
As for the film it's self, I thought it was week at best. The scripting was really bad in a couple of places and the interaction of the TFs with humans (esp that kid that is not Spike/Daniel) was juvenile and showed them in a slapstick light that detracted from their characters. The "love story" created a number of opportunities for Bay to be pointlessly shmultzy which again, added nothing to the story and detracted from the pace.
Over all the film was too long and for no good reason. The story was not complex nor did it have any significant subplots. This film could have probably been edited down by about half an hour and would have improved the pacing and befitted greatly by concentrating on the action and the robots characterization.
/rant.
Re: No Blu-Ray For ''Transformers;'' Release on HD-DVD (Score: 1) by Markusio on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 @ 07:14:23 AM
no blue-ray is crap from Paramount.
you guys flamin the director for making a comicbook/toy/cartoon movie that you enjoyed is screwed up, but I bet you own most of the movie toys. How many millions of Transformers Movie toys were sold this summer.... Oh yeah, something like 8 million and counting and you hated the movie. Whatever. You jerks flamin Bay will go see the sequel when he makes it too.
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