The end of your DVD collection is near, for soon some newfangled format is going to replace your plain old digital versatile discs with their new Blu-ray or HD DVD technologies (depending on which of the two competing formats becomes the dominant one). And Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced its first wave of Blu-ray titles.
Variety reports that the movies will range from $29.95 for catalog pictures to $34.95 for new films, and titles in the first batch will include the (yawn) likes of The Fifth Element, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, Sense and Sensibility, and Stealth. Additionally, MGM library titles, which are the purview of Sony as well since they took over that studio, include For a Few Dollars More, The Last Waltz, Robocop, Species, and The Terminator. Underworld: Evolution will be one of the first new releases on Blu-ray, probably in early summer.
The inevitable format wars between Blu-ray and HD DVD (endorsed by Warner Home Video, among others) – and fear of scaring off consumers – has already brought the prices of the discs down. They were originally intended to go for more than the $30 or $35 that has been announced. Street dates on the Blu-ray discs haven’t been announced yet, but the first HD DVD titles are expected to be released on March 28.
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