HD DVD vs blu-ray by genre

[HD Guru]

So you've watched them have you?
I think Halloween has amazing PQ.

[Atomic Age]

I don't know if anyone said this yet or not but you forgot Forbidden Planet in the HD DVD sci-fi list. And next month you can add Star Trek to that list.

Oh and Hot Fuzz in comedy.

Doug

[HD Guru]

Originally Posted by messin18

Science Fiction
HD DVD
Battle Star Galactica
Heroes
Children of men
Serenity
Matrix 1-3
Pitch Black
12 Monkeys
The Thing
Transformers
V for vendetta
Waterworld
King Kong
Hulk

blu-ray
The Terminator
5th element
The Hitchhikers Guide
Day After tommorow
Fantastic 4
Aeon Flux
Alien vs. Predator
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Stargate
Total Recall
Ultraviolet
X-Men 3

Sci-fi result: tie

Comedy
HD DVD
Clerks II
Knocked up
40-year old virgin
Hapy Gilmore
Fast Times are Ridgemont High
Dazed and Confused
Mall Rats
Big Lebowski

blu-ray
Hitch
RV
Wild Hogs
Night at the Museum
50 First Dates
Are We Done Yet?
Click
Benchwarmers
Employee of the Month
Happily N'Ever After
Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Kung Fu Hustle
Little Man
Ricky Bobby
Stranger Than Fiction
The Holiday
Van Wilder
Waiting...


Comedy result: WOW this one isn't even close. Knockout Blu-ray win.

That's a little more accurate.

[Nighthawk]

Originally Posted by HD Guru

That's a little more accurate.

Agreed. Enough said in this thread.

[ClarkGable]

The comedy bit seems to have a horrific error, as Kung Fu Hustle was missing. Even if it was just that, Blu-Ray would win in a knock-out.

[mike 1992]

Originally Posted by Drago

I'm kind of a fan of the superhero flicks:

BD
-Hellboy (theatrical)
-Spidey 1-3
-Fantastic 4 (1&2, albeit 1 is only theatrical..)
-X3
-Punisher (again, only theatrical)
[2 upcoming in '08, "Wolverine" and "Punisher 2"]
HD DVD
-Hulk
-Batman Begins
-Constantine (if you wanta consider it one)
-V for Vendetta
[3 Upcoming in '08, "Incredible Hulk", "Iron Man", "Hellboy 2"]


So by the end of next year it looks like 7 vs. 10

Wolverine has been delayed till 2009.

[ben1080p]

Originally Posted by HD Guru

So you've watched them have you?
I think Halloween has amazing PQ.

I obviously havent seen it..but judging from the review..

[damonous]

Originally Posted by messin18

I'm a huge collector of sci-fi and horror. I was looking over my collection and comparing what both sides had per Genre. Decided to compile a list and include the movies i believe are significant on both sides. ....

It's a bit of a schizoid list, since you include titles which are not yet released on HD-DVD but exclude the same on Blu-ray. Additionally, IMPORTS like "The Fog" really should not even be in the equation.

Originally Posted by messin18

Feel free to make your own comparisons. Or maybe add a new genre like drama that i don't own enough of to compare.

The list only contains exclusives or timed exclusives in a few cases.

Horror:
Horror Result: ...big blu-ray win
Science Fiction
Sci-fi result: big HD DVD win
Comedy
Comedy result: ..Knockout HD DVD win.

Well, considering omissions like upcoming T3, Spidey 1-3 & existing X3, FF2, T2, Resident Evil, Species, Eragon, Robocop, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, & Ultraviolet: I think sci-fi is about a draw. I will concede that HD-DVD mops the floor with exclusive Comedies.

BUT you left out 2 of Blu-ray's genre-forte's: ACTION & DRAMA....
(Note: the following are straight from HDD's current & upcoming releases. I didn't include previously-Blu Paramount titles. Which still wouldn't change the result.)

ACTION
HD DVD
Assault on Precinct13
Bourne 1-3
Bulletproof
Carlito’s Way 1 & 2
Dante’s Peak
Darkman
Daylight
End of Days
Face/Off
Fast & Furious 1-3
Jarhead
Jet Li’s Fearless
Lucky Number Slevin
Mercury Rising
Midnight Run
Next
Smokin’ Aces
Spy Game
Streets of Fire
The Getaway (1994)
The River
The Rundown
Top Gun
Tremors
Troy (theatrical)
Unleashed
Waist Deep

Blu-ray
A Bridge Too Far
Apocalypto
Battle of Britain
Behind Enemy Lines
Black Hawk Down
Broken Arrow
Bulletproof Monk
Casino Royale
Chain Reaction
Con Air
Crank
Curse of Gldn Flower
Die Hard 1-4
Enemy of the State
Entrapment
Flight of the Phoenix
Flyboys
GI Jane
Gone in 60 Seconds
Hart’s War
House of Fly Dggrs
Into the Blue
King Arthur
Kingdom of Heaven
Kiss of the Dragon
Ladder 49
Legend of Zorro
Master & Commandr
Mr & Mrs Smith
Pearl Harbor
Pirates 1-3
Red Dawn
Replacement Killers
Rescue Dawn
Ronin
Rush Hour 3
Shoot ‘Em Up
Speed
Stealth
SWAT
The Guardian
The Lookout
The Marine
The Patriot
The Punisher
The Rock
The Sentinel
Transporter 1 & 2
Usual Suspects
Vertical Limit
Young Guns
War

ACTION result: HUGE Blu-ray win


DRAMA
HD DVD
Alpha Dog
American Me
Apollo 13
Backdraft
Born on 4th of July
Breach
Brokeback Mountain
Casino
Cinderella Man
Derailed
Elizabeth
Erin Brockovich
Evening
Fear and Loathing...
Field of Dreams
For Love of Game
Friday Night Lights
Grand Prix
Harsh Times
Hollywoodland
Inside Man
King of California
Lost in Translation
Out of Sight
Patch Adams
Pride & Prejudice
Ray
Sea of Love
Seabiscuit
Sneakers
The Big Lebowski
The Bone Collector
The Breakfast Club
The Contract
The Deer Hunter
The Game
The Good Sheperd
The Hurricane
The Interpreter
The Matador
The War
The Watcher
The Wedding Date
Traffic
What Dreams May..

Blu-ray
A Few Good Men
American Psycho
Annapolis
Arlington Road
Basic Instinct 1 & 2
Blood & Chocolate
Big Fish
Black Book
Casanova
Catch & Release
Chicago
Closer
Courage Under Fire
Crash
Cruel Intentions
Déjà vu
Dirty Dancing
Donnie Brasco
Edward Scissorhands
Flightplan
Glory Road
Goal!
Hoosiers
Identity
I Know Who Killed
Immortal Beloved
Invincible
King of New York
Layer Cake
Lord of War
Memento
Memoirs of a Geisha
Men of Honor
Mr Brooks
Perfect Stranger
Phone Booth
Premontion
Remember the Titans
Rent
Rescue Me: S3
Reservoir Dogs
Revenge
Rising Sun
Rocky
Rocky Balboa
Seven Years in Tibet
Stranger Than Fiction
The Lives of Others
The Presige
The Queen
The Sentinel
Tailor of Panama
Tears of the Sun
Volver
Weeds: S1 & S2
Wild Things
Windtalkers

DRAMA result: big Blu-ray win

[HD Guru]

Originally Posted by ben1080p

I obviously havent seen it..but judging from the review..

So you've only read the review from this site whose not actually reviewing the PQ of the movie, but rather what he thinks should have been the correct color scheme?

The PQ on Halloween is excellent.
DVD Talk - 4/5 PQ "Highly Recommended"
Home Theater Forum - 4/5 PQ "This is the best I've ever seen Halloween"
Hi Def Preview - 4.25/5 PQ "Halloween has never looked so good."



Look around - you'll see that sometimes one site's reviewers personal attachment to the film may prevent them from writing an unbiased look at the disc.

[Citizen Erased]

I question your taste in cinema given the conclusions you draw from your owns lists, but I wont get into that as it's a subjective thing.

However, you say:

Originally Posted by damonous

IMPORTS like "The Fog" really should not even be in the equation.

Why do you think imports are not part of the equation? I own several.

Is this a bias born from being stupid enough to support a region locked format, or do you have some actual rationalisation for this argument?

[DSmalls84]

Originally Posted by HD Guru

So you've watched them have you?
I think Halloween has amazing PQ.

people may trash this release because of the pq score, but i thought it looks great. I cant get enough of these classic horror releases on blu-ray

[ScoBro828]

Originally Posted by DSmalls84

I cant get enough of these classic horror releases on blu-ray

I hope Halloween II comes out as well.. and for that matter Season of the Witch too. If you remove the title Halloween and take it as a movie unto itself it was cheeky fun (and overlooked, I think)

[mike 1992]

Originally Posted by ScoBro828

I hope Halloween II comes out as well.. and for that matter Season of the Witch too. If you remove the title Halloween and take it as a movie unto itself it was cheeky fun (and overlooked, I think)

Halloween 2 & 3 are distributed by Universal.

[damonous]

Originally Posted by Citizen Erased

I question your taste in cinema given the conclusions you draw from your owns lists, but I wont get into that as it's a subjective thing.

If you're basing this on the post I listed, I do not own or necessarily recommend all of those. As stated in the post, the listings were based upon combing through ALL titles. If you just do a count, the Blu titles far exceed the Red for DRAMA and ACTION. Now, if we're going to be "subjective" about things, then there would be crap from both sides coming off (but then we have as with the OP: an unbalanced subjective look at titles, instead of a relatively objective one).

Originally Posted by Citizen Erased

...Why do you think imports are not part of the equation? I own several.

Is this a bias born from being stupid enough to support a region locked format, or do you have some actual rationalisation for this argument?

Funny. The post was already excessively long, so I actually excised an explanation for that which I was originally intending to include. But, as they say: give the people what they want! ....

Considering that imports are not READILY available for most consumers (especially the vast majority of shoppers who actually still use B&M stores), and that they cost 2-3x that of regular titles --I don't think it's a fair comparison. Besides, it is only a handful of Blu-ray's that are actually region-coded; so trying to 'objectively' sort out what's actually playable in the States is kind of a long-winded exercise, no?

Besides, I'm actually a big Carpenter fan and own most of his movies on DVD. But, I have not opted for The Fog because ...well... I like shopping at B&M stores, and I dislike waiting days/weeks to receive my movie at exorbitant prices.

The fact is, I don't think Toshiba has any intention long-term of maintaining open region. If you look at their spec, it was intended to allow even more strict region locking, and future spec modifications. Sure, we could debate all day on this. But, honestly, how many people are actually ACTIVELY importing (especially if they own both formats). Importing in HD right now (unlike with DVD) is just a rather ridiculous and expensive 'crutch' so that you can say: "See, I don't need that other format!".

[ScoBro828]

Originally Posted by mike 1992

Halloween 2 & 3 are distributed by Universal.

What does that have to do with the fact they need to in high def?