It’s always nice to have a checklist

Empire magazine have just released a special edition “501 DVDs your collection should contain”.  Now surprisingly I don’t have all of them, in fact I probably only managed to get 50-100 from the list already owned.  However the surprising thing was that the category that I had the highest percentage in was actually War, not Sci-Fi or Action as I was expecting.  However I suppose this is mainly due to the fact that whilst I don’t have many War films, those I do are bloody good, classics such as “The Great Escape” and “The Longest Day” alongside more modern films like “Saving Private Ryan” and “The Red Line”.  All in all it does make for interesting reading and will certainly be pointing me in some new purchases although with a number of the realeases being R1 disks, I suspect Amazon.com might be getting a vist.

Is Microsoft flogging a dead horse???

Well I’m surprised, apparently the feeling round the Blogosphere at the minute is that the HD-DVD is a dead duck. Reading between the lines I can’t really blame them.
When you have Microsoft offering big discounts on their HD-DVD drive for the Xbox 360, online retailers dropping prices on the format seemingly to clear stock, more studios moving to Blu-Ray and online Film rental stockists dropping the format completely, the writing appears to be on the wall.
Personally I’m not 100% convinced yet and I’m going to continue to buy the HD-DVD format, but will certainly be looking out for a Blu-Ray player in the near future.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft if prepared to let their format die or whether they can throw money at it in an attempt to claw back the market share.

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