1970′s KING KONG STOMPS IN AS AN HD ADDITION WITH A FEW CHOICE SD TITLES

Posted March 30th, 2008 in Movies by Eddie V.

It’s not exactly Peter Jackson’s vision, but Jessica Lang’s version will have to do. King Kong (1976) makes it’s debut as an HD title and brings SD titles Fatal Attraction, Pet Sematary, Vanilla Sky, The Game Plan and Star Trek’s First Contact and Generations.

Moe

As an HD title? Are you serious? How can you “enhance” such old graphics of a movie made in the 70s? Would you really call that HD?
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Hey, I’m right there with you Moe. I just report the new movies, I definitely don’t understand or agree with Apple in what they provide.

I’m thinking at least add content created in the last 10 years.
Moe

I like my Apple TV and all. But I have to admit, the fact that we don’t get the latests new releases kind of sucks. I was itching to rent I am Legend when it first came out and I waited at least another week after release to see if it showed up on Apple TV. Of course it hasn’t. Guess what I did. Blockbuster. Sucks! I know Apple is not to blame. It’s the studios that put that 30 days after new releases regulation on us. Fools!
CHASH

Anyone who thinks that Apple is executing its grand plan for tv (controlling the selection of titles, timing, HD/SD, sales and/or rentals), is under a misimpression IMHO. Unfortunately, Apple is the last to be serviced in a contractual pecking order long in the making… Theaters and well established rentals and sales outlets are simply higher on the food chain than Apple is right now. And the gradual change in who gets what and when, will be determined by consumer demand.

To put this into perspective, you might want to check out a product that’s pretty much in a similar point in the food chain as tv: Vudu. Although they have been around for a bit longer, take a look at their list of titles. Their list looks suspiciously like the tv one…

This is why Blockbuster has more, better and more timely titles on their shelves.

Just my two cents, FWIW…
Jeff

Just wanted to point out to Moe that any movie that was filmed with actual film (Nearly all movies are shot on film) is effectively higher resolution than HD. Film is neither SD or HD – if its digitized from well kept originals it will actually have to be down sized to 1080p – meaning its hight definition than what we call hi def today. It all depends on the source material.
Moe

Thanks Jeff. Good to know. In that case, bring out Goonies in HD!

1970′s KING KONG STOMPS IN AS AN HD ADDITION WITH A FEW CHOICE SD TITLES

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