Sweden Goes Blu-ray

Two of the largest film companies in Sweden have announced their intentions to support Blu-ray exclusively. Following the Warner Brother's announcement, Swedish film companies SF and Scanbox have announced that they are scrapping all plans to release films on HD DVD, and will release exclusively on the Blu-ray format. Scanbox is expected to release their first HD titles in April.

One of the first high definition titles from SF may be 'Arn: The Temple Knight', which is the most expensive film ever produced in Scandinavia. No word on which titles Scanbox have chosen to be their first HD releases.

[zambrota]

Future is BLu

[sonarus]

its going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. the only way to make it better is to cut losses and move on

[zambrota]

i dont understand what is Toshiba doing?

why would they keep losing money on this?

[cmrbe]

is hoping that the majority of the DVD fanbase that haven't migrated will somehow pick HD-DVD over blu because its cheaper. Their plans however are falling apart daily. When people migrate there might not be any more vendors selling HD-DVD. Content in the end is key. Whats the point of buying a HD-DVD player when you cannot watch 70% of avliable movies

[zambrota]

People always go for something which is more attractive/better

Had Betamax allowed Porn on it then it would have easily won the war then.

Blu Ray already took 20% of DVD sales in Japan last year

Toshiba is trying to delay the verdict i believe but losing brand repuation in the process

The war is over and there is no other way round. People are more cautious and on very rare occasions would purchase an HD DVD drive

[cmrbe]

Possible that they might be trying to sell all their inventory. The HD-DVD group are hoping for a miricle which is not coming. Content providers are seeing the effects of the PS3 on install base as well as on content sold which is all they care about. Agree that they are loosing their reputation with this. They should have bowed out now while they still can with dignity.

[zambrota]

HD DVD players work as good DVD upscalers so yes some people might consider purchasing them for upscaling DVD movies

[pwnsause]

zambrota, wasnt the reason why porn went to VHS because of more space than betamax?

[coolfool]

Is there some sort of bug in the site?

Why does zambrota have three bubbles, then 4 and then 5 below?? Is it a bubble count problem or is it jsut displaying the amount of bubbles incorrectly?

According to his account profile he only has two bubbles? Is that the right amount or is something wrong there as well?

I could test this by keep posting, will the site stop me posting when i get to my 7?

[zambrota]

http://www.blu-ray.com/news...

[xplosneer]

The Matrix Trilogy
V for Vendetta

Especially those ^^
V for Vandetta is unexplainably awesome.

[mullet]

Batman Begins, V for Vendetta and The Matrix Trilogy YESSSS!
Now all I NEED is for 20th Century Fox to release X1 and X2 on Blu-ray. X3 was okay. I mean the picture and sound quality was amazing but the movie itself was nothing compared to the first two.

[xplosneer]

Japan and most of Europe are all no contest for Blu Ray. Asia has it's own disc. HDDVD's only slight market is US. There isn't any chance.

[Skerj]

This is starting to become a one note song, Toshiba needs to just wrap it up already. Maybe create affordable HDDVDRW's for PC and price the blank media competitively with blank DVDrs. I'd pick one up just for archiving purposes but not to watch movehs.

[ar]

Most of the films sold by SF and Scanbox is just redistribution's of movies from the big Hollywood studios so their decision wont make that much of a difference. It will only affect the domestic movies which doesn't sell near the amount of the big Hollywood productions.

[ApocalypseShadow]

http://www.n4g.com/News-516...

a long time ago last year,sony reps like peter dille said hd dvd would be dead within months.what happened?

it's dead as they said it would be.

even schrivener,the insider at sony at the time before he was let go said hd-dvd was dead before ps3 even launched:
http://www.genmay.com/showt...

{ecerpt}

***On a similar note, those of you rooting for HD-DVD as the High-Def standard might want to start selling your stuff while it’s worth something. The format war was basically decided before it even reached store shelves. 80% of the major manufacturing plants have already adopted Blu-Ray. There’s also the small matter of Sony owning, directly or indirectly, nearly half of the movie industry. I could go into more detail, but I’m getting a little off-topic. The point is, Blu-Ray is here to stay and it’s not going anywhere. HD-DVD, having considerably less support at retail and among manufacturers and movie studios, is f*cked. Also, when it comes to the end-user, the Blu-Ray capabilities of the PS3 are going to be very very heavily advertised. Not only will the PS3 ensure that Blu-Ray is the most widely owned HD player in the world, but Sony is going to make sure that people know it and use it.

Go ahead and throw your tantrums if you want, it won’t change a thing. It’s just plain out of your hands. If you were rooting for the inferior technology – well, oops.***

so,even back in 2006 when ps3 was launching,this guy who worked for sony knew that hd-dvd was dead on arrival.now,around the world,bluray is nuking the whole land.leaving no hd-dvd survivors.schrivener may have blew his last theory when he got fired,but he was on the money with his information before.

hd-dvd fans and hd-dvd add on fans should have listened a long time ago.

megaton............we knew from the beginning................

[jams_shop]

Actually, if you go back read schrivener's post. He was right about so many things.

[ta1snake]

Blu-ray won, get over it.

[TheMART]

Wow Sweden!

That means Swedish blond chick porn coming to BluRay probably! Go Sweden, go! I already play all HD movies from my external USB 2.0 HDD attached to the 360. No spinning discs, no format to choose

[mullet]

No disc spinning, no format to choose and all fake HD with compressed sound. Nice!

[socsca]

For anyone living in Sweden this is absolutely no surprise, hddvd never even existed here, there was no format war... Bluray just kinda won.

[moveteam]

the same in Denmark. In the small cities there is only Blu-ray, and in Copenhagen both. But maybe with a ratio 15:1.

But I don't think it will has a big impact at the international market, just because Scandinavia turns Blu!