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TITLES ANNOUNCED FOR FIRST MOVIES RELEASED IN HI-DEF FORMAT Wednesday, January 4 2006 
Sony
Pictures
Home
Entertainment
on
Tuesday
announced
the
first
20
titles
that
it
will
release
in
high
definition
for
its
Blu-ray
Disc
system.
They
will
be
released
as
soon
as
the
first
Blu-ray
players
hit
the
market
in
the
spring.
Among
the
titles
are
The
Fifth
Element,
Bram
Stoker's
Dracula,
Desperado,
For
a
Few
Dollars
More,
The
Guns
of
Navarone,
Hitch,
House
of
Flying
Daggers,
A
Knight's
Tale,
Kung
Fu
Hustle,
The
Last
Waltz,
Legends
(more)SONY FILMS TO USE OLD TECHNOLOGY FOR HI-DEF DVD'S Thursday, December 1 2005 Online techies were expressing surprise Wednesday at Sony's announcement that it will release its first movies on high-definition Blu-ray DVDs using the 11-year-old MPEG-2 system. Commented Nick Farrell of Britain's The Inquirer: "MPEG-2 was the codec which Noah used in the ark to watch old episodes of William Hartnell's Dr. Who during those long 40 days and 40 nights of rain." A writer for News.com observed, "By using either AVC or VC-1 [two other formats (more) |
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