BD+ has been finalized - avalanche of Fox Blu-ray movies expected to follow
by Colin Torretta 
{ Jun 20th 2007 at 8:30PM }
The good news continues to roll-in for Blu-ray, with the announcement that the advanced copy-protection system, BD+ has been finalized and is available for implementation by the movie studios. While normally additional DRM is not a good thing, the delay in the finalization of BD+ is what caused Fox and Disney to massively slow down their Blu-ray release schedule. So BD+ going live means that there is a very good chance that we'll see a huge amount of Fox and Disney titles come out in the next couple months.Interestingly, Blu-ray.com has said that "other studios, including those who currently don't support Blu-ray, have shown some interest as well" in BD+, hinting that additional studios may be coming onboard the Blu-ray train. No specifics were given, but you have to wonder how much longer Universal is going to hold out. After this week, HD-DVD is going to have to pull off one hell of a Hail Mary to win.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Andy @ Jun 20th 2007 8:39PM
This is awesome news. Disney is a key player in getting families interested in Blu-Ray and Fox has been a little slow on releasing some of their movies.
Azorean @ Jun 20th 2007 8:48PM
YAY for DRM thanks to Blu-Ray!.......Oh wait
Andy @ Jun 20th 2007 8:47PM
It has been a good week for Blu-Ray. Just look at the main page on http://www.blu-ray.com/
It is full of studios wanting to exclusively back Blu-Ray.
With a recent estimate of 25% of homes having an HDTV we should see alot more PS3 and Blu-Ray sales.
(sorry for the double post)
humpty @ Jun 20th 2007 8:53PM
Can they NOW put Spiderman 2 out on BD?
Jeff @ Jun 20th 2007 9:02PM
Not that I don't think Blu-ray will eventually win out, it is far to early for everyone to keep spouting this HD DVD is dead stuff. Almost no one cares about either one and together only make up 1% of DVDs sold. Until far more of the general public care neither side is going to fold. It will probably hurt the success of either format surviving in the future the longer the war draws out but that is exactly what is going to happen. While I'm almost sure Blu-ray will win out, there is still a long ways to go.
WhackMushroom @ Jun 20th 2007 9:23PM
OMG WHERE IS MY MATRIX TRILOGY BOX SET .. I HAVE BEEN MORE THAN PATIENT!
Oz @ Jun 20th 2007 9:20PM
@ Jeff
You are def right. It is going to take a while before there is a clear cut winner. In any case though these latest developments are going to help big time towards the blu-ray camp. I just want to be over as quick as possible so I can get some titles like Batman Begins, and Bourne Identity over to the blu-ray side.
Peter Vrabel @ Jun 20th 2007 10:23PM
@7 WhackMushroom
Tell me about it.
Peter
dapoktan @ Jun 20th 2007 10:29PM
while it may be too early to designate the winner... if Universal is all HD-DVD's got.. when the mass base of users start converting over to the HD disc formats.. they'll go with the format that has more movies.. Which is Blu-Ray with their multiple exclusive pledges from studios..
soo... this war may end before it can begin..
nic @ Jun 20th 2007 10:31PM
Said it before and will say it again. I'm not interested in either HD format. I'm fine with DVD. So the movies studios or whomever can claim victory all they want. I'm personally not buying any HD movies anytime soon.
L @ Jun 20th 2007 10:44PM
blurayfanboy.com ....... =S come on this news puts gamers to sleep
can,t wait to blu ray wins ..so we don,t have to talk crap all the time
Andy @ Jun 20th 2007 11:02PM
I consider myself a blurayfanboy and ps3fanboy. They go hand in hand with the PS3.
Although it is easy to refer to this format dispute as a war it really isn't. I still end up buying more DVD's than BRD's mostly because alot of movies I like are made by Universal including Gladiator. (BEST MOVIE EVER)
Brandon @ Jun 20th 2007 11:42PM
I felt the same way about the format war, Until I saw an episode of Planet Earth on Bluray. That documentary can single handedly convince people in the awesomeness of HD.
So many content providers are in the Blu-Ray camp, its hard to see what HD-DVD could do to turn the tide. Blu-ray is selling more disks, and more players (if you include the ps3). It seems like a good time for those still left on the HD-DVD side to jump ship with little damage. The longer the hang in, the more it's gonna hurt if they lose.
BlackBeltJones @ Jun 21st 2007 1:20AM
@11
Kind of agree with you, I want a winner already so ps3 and xbox360 fanboy sites stop posting about movie releases on gaming sites.
Also as far as BD+, only a matter of time before someone cracks it, those nerd hackers have nothing better to do.
Azorean @ Jun 21st 2007 1:53AM
All movie studios support DVD! So let's all buy DVD's since there isn't any kind of divide!
Iother @ Jun 21st 2007 4:15AM
If every console out there outsells the PS3 with a minimum of 4+ million, the PS3 still hasn't lost.
If blue-ray outsells HD-DVD by not even a million disks, HD-DVD is lost and soon to be forgotten.
Besides thats the thing about posting all this HD movie stuff, we have alle the sales and estimates of movies but we don't get the console sales.
If not because its good news it worth publishing.
Johnathon @ Jun 21st 2007 8:31AM
As someone who has an xbox360 and looking into Blu-ray [oddity i know but fanboy i am not]...i dont see the point in this 'war' that no one cares about.
who creates this 'wars anyway. ps3 vs. xbox 360, bd vs hddvd, pirates vs. ninjas
DONT YOU SEE THEY'RE BREAKING OUR GAMING FAMILY APART!!!
TsunamiPepper @ Jun 21st 2007 9:33AM
"Other studios" ??? So, Universal? That's it.
Wonderflex @ Jun 21st 2007 11:24AM
@14
I would have to say that this isn't a gaming site, but rather a Sony Plastation 3 site. There are reports on firmware upgrades, hardware issues, modding, business deals, and lawsuites. All of these issues not directly related to a game, but more so to the Playstation as a whole. To try and say that Bluray format, the movies, and so forth don't belong here, is pretty much the same as saying that the Cell processor, and any of it's interesting non-gaming uses (such as folding@home, or renderfarming).
Wonderflex @ Jun 21st 2007 11:25AM
(continued by accidental need from above) shouldn't be on here either.
SlavedHeart @ Jun 21st 2007 11:33AM
Ok, Simply put, if you don't care about BD or HD, you don't have a HD tv anyway... I'm here to tell you that after watching a couple of the same movies on BD and standard DVD, from the same machine (ps3), on the same TV (Mitsubishi HD), there definitely is a difference. So stop trying to stick in the past, and help the rest of the techno-afraid world come into the future... you are like those guys who used to say "heck with DVD, I'm FINE with my VHS's" (and don't try to tell me that they aren't out there,I used to date a girl... and her precious Simpsons VHS collection...).
ANYWAY, all you naysayers, cut it out, and let progress happen, and for all you matrix fans, realize that it probably will be the last hold out, and because their are so many of us waiting for it, it will take FOREVER, and cost an arm and a leg when it does. BUT because it was shot digital, will look AMAZING when it does.
And last but so not least, lets remember that a BD win is finally a step in the right direction, especially after that whole Beta / VHS thing, beta was better, but because adult movies were avaliable on VHS, it won... although now that won't make as much of a difference because most "adult themes" are available online, but the better format lost there... let's not let that happen again... BD is a superior format, there is no contest about that, just who supports what...
Azorean @ Jun 21st 2007 2:36PM
@21
Stick in the past you say! DVD is not really something from the past it is the present and the most popular by FAR HD media is only penetrating 1% of the market and HDTV's are only at 30% penetration! And comparing the VHS vs. DVD to BD vs. DVD is very different! VHS compared to DVD was a huge leap in technology and that leap isn't really the same when it comes to BD/HD-DVD vs. DVD especially with upcoverting. It took 10 years for VHS to be finally phased out by DVD and for five of those years VHS and DVD co-existed.
And how do you figure that Blu-Ray is a step in the right direction? All BD and HD-DVD are doing is slaping us user's with more DRM the only reason the studios are pushing these formats actually BD is because of strict DRM.
And the reason Beta flopped wasn't just because of the Porn industry but because VHS was cheaper to the consumer and to the Movie studios which ultimatly was what attracted the Adult industry. What alot of you ppl forget is that cost play's a MAJOR factor when it comes to any kind of media hence the reason the PS3 isn't selling for shit! Once the price drops that will change, but right now it might not be hard for BD to beat HD-DVD who knows the end of that battle is still a ways off (no matter what you ppl might think) but the real battle will be against DVD which will take years just because ppl have huge libraries of DVD's and they are alot cheaper today then they were a few years ago and changing to a more expensive format that doesn't really give you more then what your currently getting for cheaper just isn't very logical to the average joe consumer.
Wonderflex @ Jun 21st 2007 3:43PM
@Azorean
I'd have to agree with SlavedHeart. If you don't think that Blu-Ray is a major jump over DVD then I just don't know what to tell you. If you take a television show shot in HD, then watch it on both Blu-ray and uspcalled DVD, you can't tell me that the leap isn't the most amazing thing you've ever seen. As said by many people, on many forums, watch Planet Earth - it just doesn't get any bettr than that. Sometimes when watching it I ave to wonder if it's actually more clear than real life.
And I don't fully get the whole issue with DRM on Blu-Ray movies. Sure, none of us want to pay for something, but in step with the law (the copyright ones), I don't see any reason why we should slam a company for wanting to keep it's end-users from possibly distributing illegal copies. So long as it's not reporting usage statistics or personal information back to Sony, I say go with it.
Azorean @ Jun 21st 2007 5:04PM
@ Wonderflex
By no means do I want Sony to not succeed but all this Blu-Ray has won jibberish is exactly that jibberish. Even though there is a difference, I know I have an HDTV but I don't care about those players because I can get all the HD content I want from my cable provider on from Downloading it from the 360 marketplace and I'm sure there will be other similar options soon because IMO by the time BD or HD-DVD whichever wins we will be getting most if not all HD media via download! Like I mentioned in my last post it took DVD about 10 years to phase out VHS and it took 5 years for DVD to beat VHS and neither of these HD formats have even begun the War against DVD they are still battling eachother.