Looks like the Blu-ray release of Iron Man may be postponed
By Ben Drawbaugh 
posted September 24th 2008 6:42PM
posted September 24th 2008 6:42PM
Bad news Blu-ray fans -- it appears Paramount hasn't gotten past all its production problems and it just might affect the Blu-ray release of Iron Man. Easily one of the biggest movies of the year, Iron Man was expected to really move some volume on Blu when it was set to release this Tuesday on September 30th, but after some rumors that review copies weren't working in some players, it was expected that Paramount would issue a full recall. At this point the studio is doing everything it can to deliver enough replacement discs to retailers, but if it doesn't happen in time, then we'll all have to wait another week until October 7th to take in the latest sci-fi action flick.Update: Paramount rang to say that the release is still on track for a September 30th release. Phew!
at Costco wholesale we had to return all of our blu-ray copies back to the manufacture
digitalbits is reporting the BD will not be delayed. Par is working around the clock to press corrected discs. Nevertheless, I'm glad I preordered mine...
I heard that Robert Downey Jr. accidentally dropped an ounce of cocaine and a dirty syringe in one of the boxes.
Fail... for trying too hard. Not an epic fail, but fail nonetheless.
fail? no...i say win for bringing up something that most people are too young to even remember. anyways, i'm happy for the guy, from BIG TIME repeat coke-head "my downey jr, i'm going to give you one last chance..." to iron-man. that's a hell of a turnaround. oh by the way, after that one last chance for people that dont remember...he blew it.
Everyone can get into a drug problem, even movie stars, so why people are so much harder on the stars is beyond me. The good part of this is that he conquered the problem and came back with a vengeance, a rarity in Hollywood...look at Winona Ryder...she went in for therapy for her problem but remained off the Hollywood A list up to this day because of one arrest. Very unfair if you ask me. Only in Hollywood are things not forgiven and people allowed to redeem themselves (and with some of the very unforgiving public). Funny thing.... I find most people who talk about these people as if they were so "bad" must think they lead perfect lives to come down on others when they hit a low and never let them live down their mistakes.
Does Paramount even bother testing their discs??? All of the last several Paramount releases crash my Blu-ray player when I try to access the menus. Not I gotta wait for another firmware update to fix problems that could have easily been avoided. Looks like it's the same shit, but now with problems in even more players so they were forced to recall.
SHITE. I was really set to get this BD (on release day, no less, this is a big step for me). I seriously hope they get things worked out and release it on time.
I pre-ordered with Amazon so I assume they will ship it as soon as they get it......still sucks tho......
Tell me again why blu ray is a better product then HD DVD was.
Majority of studio support out of the gate
More titles
Higher capacity
should I keep going? Dude, just let it die.
This has nothing to do with bu-ray and everything to do with paramount messing up.
I can't believe you're still desperately trying to back HD DVD. It's dead. Get over it.
Dude, you're like you're comments don't help, and if they don't help they just waste space. Get over it and move on. It is what it is.
I'm not hanging on to HD DVD, it's as dead and cold as charity, but it frustrates me to see this, IMO, inferior product floundering because the prime marketer has botched this product from day 1
It's not canceled.
Because BD-Java doesn't constrain you like HDi. You can do anything you want, even introduce buggy code that could induce you to recall an entire production run and pray that there's enough available replication capacity for you to make your street date.
I'd hardly describe HDi as "constrained". Just because ECMAScript is a scripting language doesn't mean it's less powerful than Java. Slower perhaps, but the object library is pretty much as complete as it needs to be.
What are the odds that we'll ever hear what the real problem was with these discs?
My 1080p Blu-Ray rip has been working fine on my AppleTV for quite some time fuck Blu-Ray.
First to tell me what doesn't make sense about Shelbz statement...
britboyj,
I think what Shelbz is trying to say is "FBI, come investigate me for pirating". Can't tell, my disgruntled HDDVD translation is a bit rusty since HDDVD went teats up, but yeah, I think that is about correct...
I thought AppleTV was only capable of decoding 720p content and 1080p content was a bit straining for it? Or does it do 1080p just lower bit rate 1080p? I'm confused...
Also a 1080p rip is nothing quality wise compared to 1080p from the disc, simple compression. Like why a 6 megapixel camera phone looks like shit compared to a 6 megapixel DSLR
EricBradly,
That's a poor example. The reason a cellphone camera's picture quality is so bad compared to a Digital SLR camera is because the apperature size is larger, better lenses and sensor size is quite often about 1" versus a 2.5" ccd. The 2.5" ccd can receive more light and devide it more accurately into pixels. Usually the larger sensor size, the better potential depth of field, clarity and resolution.
The reason the cellphone camera looks so bad is the camera itself. It doesn't have to do with compression of the image unless you've manually set your 6mp cellphone camera to take pictures at '200kb' or something like that.
A better comparison would be Raw on DSLRs versus JPEG on DSLRS with the same lenses/body. Raws should look a bit better and allow for more post-shot processing but, take more size. Some would argue though that they can't tell the different between a raw/jpeg. Let alone an encoded 1.4gb xvid versus a dvd or a 1080p rip versus the original as long as the bit-rate is high enough the encode can be loseless with the right codecs.
I'm aware Wes, just didn't think a simile needed a three paragraph explanation.
http://digitalbits.com/#iron2
according to Digital Bits, everything is back on track and Iron Man will be on BD on tuesday with the DVD release.
Yes, I could still care less about Blu-Ray at this time. Maybe in a couple years when this whole profile garbage is done and over with and the problems are worked out, things will be better and I may look at the format again, but for now, I have enough HD options, and I'll just continue to buy DVD's unless I find a good enough reason to buy a PS3, but so far, nope. Nothing of interest I can't get on the 360 anyway. So far it's not looking good, but maybe I can just hold off and get the PS4 instead and just call the PS3 a bust for me. Right now I really don't care one way or the other. At this time, Blu-ray still has it's problems and high prices in hardware and software, and it's not the ONLY solution for HD content out there. So why rush to the format? I have no problem waiting. Let these things work themselves out.
For all intents and purposes, the "Profile Thing" is done with. I've tried Profile 2.0, not exactly a must have feature, so find you a top notch 1.1 player and be happy...trust me, you're not missing anything...
a.b.hdtv.x264
It was already confirmed by Paramount YESTERDAY that the Blu-rays would be defect free and in stores on the release date!
That's great news, thanks for the update Lucyfan62.
Thanks Brendan!
Some friends here in the UK who got the disc early are reporting some scenes are missing. The scene where Downey is in the hummer saying "no gang signs" seems to be missing for some reason.
Gus, were you aware of the many titles on hd-dvd that got delayed or had player problems? Does that make Blu-ray inferior? Check the past posts at high def digest during the hd-dvd period and you will find pressing problems there too. In the first few years of DVD there were also discs that would not play in certain players. I owned the first Toshiba dvd player and had problems with many titles at the start including Twister and others.