[JP] Iblard Jikan on Blu-ray from Ghibli

[Chris Beveridge]

Watch Impress Link (http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20070313/buena.htm)

Amateur translators, please fill us in on the details!

[TAS]

July 4 for Both Blu-ray and DVD. Sound track CD with both.
Blue-ray single layer DD 2.0 / 5.1 PCM 4,935 yen
DVD Dual layer, DD 2.0 / DD 5.1 3,990 yen

[The Great Bear]

While I can't honestly translate to save my life, there is a section down the page that is of some interest for those following the format war. I can't read it properly, but there is something about "share data" concerning players for 2 months, which according to the BCN ranking is going 95% Bluray to 5% HD DVD. If someone who actually can read Japanese would like to take a crack at it, this whole article sounds like it's filled with interesting information.

[TAS]

From what I could pick out the lower story looked like...

The format war is over, blu-ray wins.

The same type of stuff that was running on English sites a few weeks back. See http://www.animeondvd.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/17540/

[Buster Darkwings]

The format war in Japan doesn't really compare to the one in the US. HD DVD is losing by a much, much wider margin. It's even less successful than the XBox 360 in Japan.

[Buster Darkwings]

The report states that the sales of players have been 95% BD, and 5% HD DVD. It goes on to say that this figure does not include the million PS3s.

[Andrew Cunningham]

As far as what the thing actually is, it says the artist selected 63 locations within the world his paintings depict, and Ghibli animators brought them to life digitally. Trees and water move, trains run past, etc. The camera is not static either, moving through the landscape depicted and exploring it. There are also 2D characters added, which make the viewer feel like they are exploring the world.
It calls itself a Video Artbook.

[Skywise]

While I can't honestly translate to save my life, there is a section down the page that is of some interest for those following the format war. I can't read it properly, but there is something about "share data" concerning players for 2 months, which according to the BCN ranking is going 95% Bluray to 5% HD DVD. If someone who actually can read Japanese would like to take a crack at it, this whole article sounds like it's filled with interesting information.

That's Buena Vista talking since they're the distributor for Ghibli stuff, and they've always been behind Blu-ray. I also believe they're talking about the Japanese market, not the US, or even worldwide.

[The Great Bear]

While I can't honestly translate to save my life, there is a section down the page that is of some interest for those following the format war. I can't read it properly, but there is something about "share data" concerning players for 2 months, which according to the BCN ranking is going 95% Bluray to 5% HD DVD. If someone who actually can read Japanese would like to take a crack at it, this whole article sounds like it's filled with interesting information.

That's Buena Vista talking since they're the distributor for Ghibli stuff, and they've always been behind Blu-ray. I also believe they're talking about the Japanese market, not the US, or even worldwide.

Oh, I know they're talking about the Japanese market only.

But I also thought this was something separate from the Ghibli story above (there are section breaks of some sort), and so this is not a statement from Buena Vista, but something else that Watch Impress was putting up themselves, or is the entire page connected to the Buena Vista Ghibli announcement?

[Skywise]

Buena Vista is releasing Iblard so the entire thing is them announcing it at the Tokyo Fair. If you even read the text it says that it's the marketing director at BV saying it ^^;.

[The Great Bear]

Buena Vista is releasing Iblard so the entire thing is them announcing it at the Tokyo Fair. If you even read the text it says that it's the marketing director at BV saying it ^^;.

Well, I can't really read Japanese :P

Sure, the source is quoting statistics that he likes, but I doubt he's making it up. I would really just like the whole format war to be over. If it ended in Japan, I would hope that it might have a knock on effect on the rest of the world, since a lot of the electronics (including the two formats themselves) come from there.

[Skywise]

Well we could end up with a really weird situation with the two formats being regionalized - Blu-ray in Japan and Europe, both in the US, and Chinese HD-DVD in China. No one knows at this point.

[The Great Bear]

Well we could end up with a really weird situation with the two formats being regionalized - Blu-ray in Japan and Europe, both in the US, and Chinese HD-DVD in China. No one knows at this point.

If China wants to go its own way, fine. Let them pirate HD DVD to their hearts' content :P

Though it would be best if there could just be one format and we could all move on.