Paramount titles in Blu-ray on Amazon

Take this rumor with a grain of salt but over at amazon.co.uk, it has listed Anchorman, Coming to America and Trading Places. Now this could be a simple mistake, or it could be a sign that Paramount is already getting ready to re-join the Blu-ray camp.

[resistance100]

Would love it to be true, i will snap up Anchorman in half a second

[actas123]

Nice to know another Anchorman Fan.. Its the funniest movie ever.

[rawd]

You're a smelly pirate hooker

[snoop_dizzle]

"tell me about it... i ate a big red candle!"

"i love lamp!"

brick is the best.

[rawd]

Why don't you go back to your home on Whore Island?

[DRUDOG]

Lanolin?!? Like the sheep's wool?

[nevelo07]

might be getting transformers soon

[DRUDOG]

It's eventually going to happen anyway. Better sooner rather than later for Paramount & DW to start shifting to BD. HD-DVD is in it's last days, obviously...

[eagle21]

lol

[rawd]

Transformers in Bluray
The way it was meant to be watched.

*splooge*

[cloud360-7th_account]

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[whoelse]

What was the loss?

[hunter21]

yeah thats the only thing im waiting paramount to rejoin BR camp cause im still waiting for transformers to go on blu ray

[bootsielon]

Paramount wishes they could have had more than those 150 million stinking MSFT dollars!

[whoelse]

I wonder if Paramount still get their money.

[TheExecutive]

this is most likely a mistake folks... happens all the time.

[judd]

4 out of those 5 are also on Blu-ray on the US amazon.com - Anchorman is not.

EDIT: Well, I decided to look a little closer at these. The release date for Failure to Launch was before Paramount went HD-DVD only. The other three on amazon.com don't have release dates given, but somehow there are already USED versions of each available. So, something isn't adding up.

As much as I would like to see Paramount go Blu soon, I don't think this is a sign of that happening.

EDIT 2: After looking at amazon.co.uk, it looks like it gives more information than the .com site. It has release dates in mid to late March and will let you pre-order them. So I may have been wrong in my conclusion in my first edit.

[Guwapo77]

Coming to America is one of the first Blu-Ray movies I bought (May 07). These movies were released when Paramount was with the Blu-Ray camp. Nothing new here...move along.

As for them being preordered...well probably stock that wasn't selling and decided to ship it over to another region. This is pure speculation ofcourse...but like I said this is one of those movies I've had almost a year already.

In closing...I can't wait till Paramount and friends are all on Blu-ray. I'm still missing a few movies I really want.

[Killzownz84]

I hope THI I true... Godfather trilogy on Blu FTW!!!

[judd]

Well I just sent a message to their customer service inquiring about the pre-orders. I asked if this was a mistake or if this means Paramount will no longer be HD-DVD only by March. I will be sure to post any information I get in a response from them later.

[judd]

Dear Mr. B Judd

Thank you for contacting Amazon.co.uk with your enquiry.

We have checked our website and confirm that the DVDs you are
mentioned are scheduled to release in March.

We do appreciate that sometimes the amount of information we display
may make it difficult to make a purchasing decision, unless you
already know something about the item. Our editorial staff are
constantly working on increasing the information we provide about
each item as it becomes available to us. However, the information
currently displayed on the product's information page is all that
has so far been made available to us from the manufacturer.

However, I will be sure to pass on the information to the relevant
department in our company for consideration. Customer feedback such
as yours helps us to continue improving the selection and service we
provide. We appreciate the time you've taken to write to us.

Thank you for shopping at Amazon.co.uk.

Warmest regards

Archana S.
Customer Service
Amazon.co.uk

[damnwrx]

Bourne 1.2.3 / Transformers 1.0

[athlon770]

Have always liked the Bourne series, and am waiting patiently for Transformers to turn blu.

[StalkingSilence]

a lot of others are saying they want anchorman and other comedies in blu-ray... i dunno so much. i have superbad in blu-ray and there's really no point. the better BR movies would be bourne and transformers fo sho

[shelbygt33]

Reading the comments, looks like these were all available on BR prior to Paramount going to Hd-DVD. But, that wouldn't explain the "release dates" being listed. However, my question is - perhaps the distributor in Europe is different than in the states.

Studio Canal released many HD-DVD's over in Europe that are BR only in the states. Perhaps it also goes the other way?

[Lumbo]

It does, as Constantine home video manages most of German releases and they announced BluRay exclusivity a few days before.

The European listings have nothing to do with whether Paramount goes neutral or not. European distribution is not handled by Paramount.

[ITR]

Remember Paramount doesn't dist. overseas like it does in the US.

Remember you can get BD titles like Resident Evil 1-2-3 all from different markets for HD DVD, but you can not here. Some HD titles are BD titles in other countries because they are not dist. the same as in the US.

I still wish BD players were region-less like HD is. I hear you can get them(BD players) chipped for all region play, but it's expensive.