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Blu-ray Dropping on May 23
Posted Mar 1, 2006 at 4:14AM EST by QJ Staff

 Listed in: Blu-Ray, News Tags: ps3 news
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Sony announced that it will launch its brand new video format in North America on May 23rd. Wait, that's not all, it will launch with these stellar(and arguably, less than stellar) titles: 50 First Dates, The Fifth Element, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, A Knight's Tale, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, XXX, and The Last Waltz. Should that not meet your movie fancy, the second wave of releases will be hitting stores on June 13: Kung Fu Hustle, Legends of the Fall, RoboCop, Stealth, Species, SWAT, Terminator and Underworld: Evolution.

Speculation for the Blu-ray(BD) movies will be $24.99, but no official Sony figures have been released for the first batch of movies as yet. However, Lionsgate has already begun to price to their offerings. Their first two movies, Lord of War and Crash, will retail at $39.99 each and its other three titles, The Punisher, Saw, and Terminator 2, will retail at $29.99. Their second batch of films: Reservoir Dogs, Total Recall, Stargate, the Dune miniseries will go at $29.99; however, the horror film The Devil's Rejects will go at $39.99.

While the discs have about 50Gigs worth of storage, there hasn't been any word on what special features they will have.

Lastly, the Samsung BD player's (the BD-P1000) release will coincide with the launch of the movies and will be priced at $999. I don't know about everyone else, but I think I'll just stick with my DVDs for now and wait for a PS3.

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# Money — DeadlyFire 2006-03-01 08:06
When the heck will people get an increase in wage? 5.15 is hardly enough to get by on now with monthly payments and price of everything going up from gas, videogames, to movies. We need at least 7-8 bucks minimum to get by with all of this stuff. We need more doe.

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# No Thanks — ej_424 2006-03-01 08:33
Wow that is quite pricey. I'm going to wait too, who even knows if Blu-Ray will be the next standard its still up in the air between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Look what happend to Beta-max, it had the better quality but in the end VHS was still superior. Word to advice before we know which is going to win and what one really is better dont rush out and commit yourself to Blu-Ray

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# blu-ray — Skywallker 2006-03-01 08:40
beta-max was better than vhs and still is and the problem was that sony wouldnt let anyone else produce beta systems and so vhs ended up on top. But its going to be different with the blu-ray because not only is sony putting a blu-ray drive in every PS3 which will start the market towards blu-ray. Also other companies like panazonic and toshiba will be making blu-ray players which will allow for competitive marketing and the ability for people to afford the equipment in time.

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# release — Hawk 2006-03-01 10:39
HMMMM, anyone see where this is going? Release the disks then release the PS3...



Hmm, if they were having an issue with the drives, these stand alone would be delay'd as well.



Guess we shall see in the next month or so what Sony will do.



Just waiting for a actual press release one way or another on the PS3 release.



And yea, I am waiting for the PS3, not going to buy a stand alone unit. PS3 will be going into my main theater anyway.

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# That's a horrible selection — robbie06 2006-03-01 10:47
The first batch of Blu-ray movies is lacking some killer titles.

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# ? — antaeus 2006-03-01 11:36
"While the discs have about 50Gigs worth of storage, there hasn't been any word on what special features they will have." ummm...1080p resolution?

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# No delay then? — Arwin 2006-03-01 11:59
Well, this makes a delay for the PS3 a lot less unlikely. If Blu-Ray is ready for launch on the 23rd, then that can't really be the reason for the PS3 not to be ready at that same date.

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# 50 gigs? — robbie06 2006-03-01 12:32
I think these are single layer discs which are 25 gigs. Is there an official statement as to the size of the discs?

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# lineup! — comedy 2006-03-01 17:07
what a lineup, who didn't enjoy species, and xxx and resident evil : apocalypse? wow, now i can watch them in hd on a realy large screen, in the dark, in my 'species' costume my mom made me!



why do they choose a few good films and a bunch of bad ones... who wants to watch a film about reservoir dogs anyway?

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# I'm giving it time... — Vecha 2006-03-02 04:12
I don't think i'm going to buy one untill half a year to a year later.

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