Warner Bros. to release 10 high-definition films

Six of the titles will be released in Blu-ray format, four in HD DVD. Release set for Sept. 26.

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Okay, folks. Now's the time to take a stand.

Don't buy any of these discs. Tell Blu-Ray and HD-DVD to take a hike. This garbage is an answer to a question no one has asked.

Wait; I'm wrong. The question was: "How can we scam the consumer into buying into a half-baked technology that is designed to limit choice?"

Remember that both of these technologies support draconian DRM and will, if only one device in the chain fails to work perfectly, permanently disable your HD television set. Don't believe me? Check into the specs yourself.

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High Definition Disk Drawbacks

Has anyone experienced the long time it takes to spin-up either one of these newer HD Disk players? With all the added security these new HD players has to first decipher the lead-in bits in order to play anything. Dont bother spending the high $$ for these new players, they are technically inadequate out of the box.
Its too bad that the movie mongers were scared into needing encryption when a properly priced product and secure distribution policies would have taken care of the almighty profit margin. We all could have been enjoying HD production years back, playing right from the current DVD media by just using DVIX or Windows Media, or whatever.
Let the blue laser development and its high density storage play a role in back-up and archiving of computer data rather than becoming a mass marketed movie scam.