Transformers HD DVD sales not so Spectacular?

well considering all the different extras all these different stores offered, its no surprise everyone jumped on the regular dvds instead.

Well, I know I don't an HD DVD player, ot HD TV yes for that matter.

In time, I suppose.

Blu Ray is unstoppable. It is the only way to go.

Blu-Ray is region encoded. HD-DVD is not. I can play a HD-DVD I purchased anywhere in the world on a player anywhere else in the world. With Blu-Ray I can only play a Blu-Ray disk I purchase only in the places that Sony allows me to play them.

You know how you can get all those cool box sets of Transformers in the UK that you can't get anywhere else? That's the future with Blu-Ray. With HD-DVD, you could order them from the UK and play them wherever the hell you want.

But hey, if you're happy with only being allowed to watch only those products that Sony says you're allowed to watch in your "home region".

Not suprising. I havent jumped on this format bandwagon...I'm still with the dvd.

I think its bogus that they are saying that the HD sales are low. Most of the people who are BUYING the DVDs are the fans or people who liked the movie. It's not about Blu Ray or HD with this. It's about the consumer base. The vast majority of consumers who want to buy Transformers do NOT have HD TVs or High Def DVD players. That being the case more people are buying the regular DVD. Besides the regular DVDs 2disc special editions have exclusives to each store, so they basically catered to the market that they were going to sell to anyway. I bought the Walmart pack with the prequel. I'll wait for an extended Special Edition to come out to get any extras.

Orin_Thomas wrote:Blu-Ray is region encoded. HD-DVD is not. I can play a HD-DVD I purchased anywhere in the world on a player anywhere else in the world. With Blu-Ray I can only play a Blu-Ray disk I purchase only in the places that Sony allows me to play them.

You know how you can get all those cool box sets of Transformers in the UK that you can't get anywhere else? That's the future with Blu-Ray. With HD-DVD, you could order them from the UK and play them wherever the hell you want.

But hey, if you're happy with only being allowed to watch only those products that Sony says you're allowed to watch in your "home region".

Blu-Ray CAN be region encoded, that doesnt mean to say that the discs ARE region encoded. I just took a look at the discs I have bought here in the UK and it seems that only those from Comubia Pictures are region locked.

Isn't that a bit like suggesting that it is possible to have DVDs non-region encoded so there must be a whole lot of non-region encoded DVDs?

Region encoding is the format killer for me. I already have enough stress trying to remember which computer's DVD player will allow me to play UK, US or Australian content and someone wants to repeat that monumental cockup with Blu Ray?

It should speak volumes that three different English speaking markets (Australia, the USA and Australia) all use different DVD regions. Where is the sense in a Blu-Ray disc made in England not being able to be played in a US player, but a Blu Ray disc from Indonesia being able to be played in a US player?

It is all about control of your entertainment. Sony wants to make sure that Americans can only source that cool BBC stuff like Life on Mars and Dr Who from Sony Approved American Retailers. Sony wants to make sure that Brits can only source cool American stuff like Battlestar Galactica from Sony Authorized UK retailers.

Now that's fine if you only want to be spoon fed content from your approved Sony region, but as someone who has put up with the insanity of the DVD region system for the last decade in an attempt to watch legally purchased and produced stuff that I can't get in my own region I think doing the same thing with a new format is insanity.

Blu Ray is objectionable because it divides the world up into content regions when the HD-DVD spec shows that such a division is simply not necessary. And when movies in either format look the same on the same TV, why would anyone go with the deliberately freedom limiting technology?

this stupid war between hd-dvd and blu ray is retarded!!!!
it's obvious the only ones even buying hd-dvds or blu rays are folks with lots of extra money to throw around, have ps3s, the hd-dvd add-on for 360. those with less money on tighter budgets can't afford an hdtvs, ps3s, or an hd-dvd or blu ray players. so until regular dvds are phased out completely, and everyone is forced to choose blu-ray or hd-dvd there is no sense in anyone saying one is selling better! true one may be out selling at this point in time, but in the future the other could make a huge come back. and crush the other. but until everyone is forced to choose neither will be the winner!!!!!! AND IN MY OPINION, THE MOVIE COMPANIES CHOOSING SIDE ARE IDIOTS, RELEASING MOVIES TO ONE FORMAT AND NOT THE OTHER IS A DUMB ASS MOVE, AND IT ONLY HURTS THE CONSUMERS!!!!!

I'm pretty sure all the Blu-fanatics on here are PS3 fanboys. Can't see any other reason to be so hardcore about it. =/