Blu-ray titles win big at First Ever High-Def Disc Awards

The Blu-ray Disc version of Warner Home Video's hit film 300 won the High-Def Title of the Year last week.

Blu-ray titles captured seven of the 11 categories, picked by a panel of critics and bloggers. All high-def discs released since the inception of Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD were eligible.

The first-ever High-Def Disc Awards were presented at High-Def 2.0, a one-day conference presented by Home Media Magazine in cooperation with The Hollywood Reporter and the Entertainment Merchants Association.

[tethered]

This from the article:

Full list of winning Blu-ray titles:

• High Def Title of the Year: 300, Warner Home Video. Blu-ray.

• Best Live-Action Blu-ray: Casino Royale, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Blu-ray.

• Best Animated: Ratatouille, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. Blu-ray.

• Best Picture Quality: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. Blu-ray.

• Best Long-Form Music Video: Dave Mathews & Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City Music Hall, Sony BMG. Blu-ray.

• Best Catalog: Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Blu-ray.

• Best Collection/Multidisc Set: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Blu-ray.

What did HD-DVD end up with?
You know, the 4 remaining.
What were the categories HD-DVD got?

[cuco33]

A lot of these awards (not just the blu ones you listed) I would definitely agree with winning or being up there. but some don't make sense. Like HD movie of the year was given to 300 for BD, regardless of the fact that the HD DVD version had more features and all. I'm assuming this was based on sales as 300 to date has sold the most on BD compared to all other titles.

Casino Royale I would put up there, but I wouldn't give it as the action flick of the year. There are a lot of other films that's been released on both sides that were better action films.

Kindom of Heaven I would put in the top tier for best catalog. It'ld be personal preference on which one wins but that to me is easily in the top 3.

I think best collection should go to Matrix Trilogy on HD. But that's me. Maybe it didn't make it because the bonus extra disk was SD.

"What did HD-DVD end up with?"
The most important one of the remaining though was best audio, give to Transformers HD DVD for a LOSSY sound track. I am not going into it but damn was that the big shocker of the ENTIRE awards. That speaks VOLUMES that lossy can be rated top notch over lossless. Essentially lossless uncompressed sh*t is still sh*t :D

You could easily say it was about even though with both sides taking top prizes in most catagories. No dominance btw ;)

[tethered]

High-Def Award Winners:

High Def Title of the Year: 300 (Blu-ray), Warner Home Video

Best Live-Action Blu-ray: Casino Royale, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Best Live-Action HD DVD: Hot Fuzz, Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Best Animated: Ratatouille (Blu-ray), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Best Picture Quality: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Blu-ray), Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment

Best Audio Quality: Transformers (HD DVD), Paramount Home Entertainment

Best Bonus Feature: 300 (HD DVD), Bluescreen Picture-in-Picture, Warner Home Video

Most Innovative Use of New Technology: HD DVD U-Shop feature (Internet purchase ability), Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Best Long-Form Music Video: Dave Mathews & Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City Music Hall (Blu-ray), Sony BMG

Best Catalog: Kingdom of Heaven: Director’s Cut, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Best Collection/Multidisc Set: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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[barom]

wtf how can transformers get best audio quality when it wasn't even hd sound.

[cuco33]

Transformers audio track WAS hd (high fidelity). DD+ 1.5 is every bit HD audio as lossless PCM, TrueHD, or DTS-HD MA.

Remember, it's high quality compressed/lossy sound track and it sounds AMAZING!

All depends on the film, the sound track and how the studio mixes it. Obviously here Paramount pulled all strings to get the mix right

[sonarus]

all the best movies are on blu ray

[Lord Cheese]

except transformers and the bourne ultimatum - damn them. I had to buy a hd-dvd addon for my 360 just for those movies, and all because they wouldnt release them on blu-ray. A$$HOLES!

[Lord Anubis]

as expected from the best format.

[Vulcan Raven]

Transformers for best audio, was i wrong but I thought it was unable to fit the hi-def audio on the disc, or did i get cought up in a bunch of bs?

[nix]

i think we all got fooled into the BS!

[IntelligentAj]

Does this really matter?

[Nipplestiltskin]

This is a very critical time in the (most-recent) format wars, and with continued success, Blu-Ray will be the de-facto standard in a few years. It's as important as vhs vs. beta was 20 years ago. It will have very real effect on you whether you realize it now or not.

[Genuine]

I'm just curious who sponsored such an obvious marketing event disguised as an awards ceremony. Nice try Sony, you already disguised your blu-ray player as a game console, a fake awards ceremony seems miniscule compared to that.

[beoulve]

Wow....just Wowww

[chrno6]

It may be staged but so what? Not as staged as the Most addictive game fueled by Dew isn't it.

[Genuine]

Hey I could careless. And yes the fueled by Dew award at the VGA's was almost as bad as this. But anyone that takes this or the Fueled by Dew award seriously deserves to be laughed at.

Hey I can't wait to watch "The 99 cent Double Cheeseburger Awards" sponsored by Mcdonald's.

EDIT- Lol,disagree's? So some of you think people should take obvious company bought awards ceremonies as the gospel? O.k, but that just adds more proof to the rumor that sony fanboys are embarassingly insane.

[GlossGreen]

as embarrassing as an Xbot.

[vloeistof]

.... yeah sony is the only company supporting blu-ray

[Nipplestiltskin]

They invented the format.

[WilliamRLBaker]

dirty is back after being banned lol. i wish both blood and him had stayed away.

Home Media Magazine:
""In July 2006, HM launched a consumer magazine called Agent DVD, which is intended as a semi-regular periodical focusing on home entertainment news. The first issue debuted at the 2006 Comic Con International in San Diego, California, and focused on titles and news that would appeal to convention-goers. Co-sponsors of the first issue included Warner Home Video, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Tower Records and Video.""

When we get a more highly regulated award show, we can believe the awards but till then nah.
Dirty is back with his pro sony, pro blu ray stance.

[Genuine]

There is some proof folks.

Tune in Dec 13 8pm est for the "Hi-Def Movie Format Awards" sponsored by Sony.

[whoelse]

Put this in your diary Warner!

[Lord Cheese]

love blu-ray, but if there is one thing i cant stand its the damn region coding. I have a US ps3 and live in the UK so have to import everything. At least on my hd-dvd player i can just buy movies from where i want (well, all 4 that are are any good on the format anyway)

[FirstknighT]

Well 300 is exactly the same in quality in both hd dvd and bluray but the hddvd has extra features. So why did the bluray version win???

[Blitzed]

Blu-ray make Hulk cry.