HD DVD owners want your catalog available on HD DVD. As I big buyer of content, and being rather disappointed with Bluray's picture quality, I have decided to be HD DVD exclusive and not buy into yet another format war. Either Bluray improves it's pq, or I can learn to live without movie titles.
I'm not taking sides right now (still OK with my SD's), but I will definitely say that HD-DVD is the way to go.
In the case of Lionsgate, great studio--I loved their SD jobs on T2, American Psycho, Crash, Total Recall, and so on--but upon further evaluation, Lionsgate has not even bothered offering extra features: Crash and Lord of War were released as two-disc sets, the former as a director's cut; neither Blu-Ray version contains any special features. T2 is the only Lionsgate Blu-Ray with extra features, yet none of the content-superior Ultimate Edition features are included, nor is the Special Edition cut of the film present on both versions. Lionsgate, if you read this, given Blu-Ray declines in consumer sales, release your titles (many of which have valuable extras) on HD. Thank you.
Do the right thing and join HD DVD. The economic characters in authoring and replication have been proven to be superior to Blu-ray. HD DVD has delivered 100% on its promise. Has Sony?
Your studio distributes several titles I would be happy to "double dip" on in the HD-DVD format. The entry cost for Blu-Ray is too high for me. I am supporting HD-DVD.
the consumers should be able to decide the format. After preliminary views, reviews, etc. I think the HD-DVD with a hybrid disc will satisfy consumers comparatively to BluRay.
Simply put: HD-DVD is cheaper, offers the same video and sound quality (Please don't even attempt to say Blu-Ray is superior in either, I have played with both formats...) Sony needs to get in touch with reality. You would think they would have learned from all their failed proprietary formats.
