Thanks for the PM.
I think that PM helps me understand the response you gave me to my post.
I'm not going to respond to the first part of your post because I feel like you put some words and inference in my mouth that simply aren't accurate.
I think it was an accident.
Listen, I'd have liked to see TrueHD here, and I can't see why Paramount DIDN'T offer it (as it's a 2-disc set), but we all know Paramount hasn't used TrueHD on any of their earlier releases, in EITHER format..though STAR TREK will have it...but that would be a first I believe for them, in any HD format.
^^ This is basically my point right there.
Pull out ALL the stops and go for the kill, especially for an EXCLUSIVE title.
That's what I want to see more of from BOTH formats.
They've been slow to express interest in TrueHD, no question. But that has nothing to do with HD-DVD's "technical inferiority" to the BD format so much as it shows their disinterest in it so far to date.
True.
Paramount has not earned the gold star for taking much advantage of either format in the past IMO.
All my point here was, and is: By this time we should be seeing BOTH formats putting their guts on the line, especially with exclusive titles and/or flagship titles.
That's how you try and win format wars. Simple as that.
On the BD side I just got in a few of this month's releases:
-UNDERWORLD -- looks great, has extras
-MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA -- looks really, really great, not my fave film, but gorgeous looking
-A FEW GOOD MEN -- shows its age in places but generally good, kind of like "Flatliners" from last month, a few extras too
-THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS - blecch on the movie, nice looking though so dark it's hard to make out the benefits of HD
These are nice discs.
but otherwise those discs look hot.