Sony presumably also already has the 4K assets for these films ready to roll out onto the shiny new Ultra HD disc format; certainly these films have cropped up before in 4K on other distribution platforms.
But as well as none of these titles benefitting from much critical acclaim, they’re not particularly ‘hot tickets’, with only Chappie coming out in 2015. And Chappie hardly set the box office alight.
Of course, Sony can only work with titles available in its own studio library. But this library does include some much more acclaimed films, many of which are already available in 4K via Sony’s Video Unlimited service in the US.
The bottom line is that aside, possibly, from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, none of the announced Sony titles are likely to attract film fans to Ultra HD Blu-ray’s cause. So people who buy them will likely only do so through curiosity to see what Ultra HD Blu-ray is capable of, or out of sheer desperation to get some use out of their new Ultra HD Blu-ray player and 4K TV.
Sony has also revealed, though, that inevitably the initial batch of six Ultra HD Blu-ray releases – which were announced 10 years to the day from when Sony announced its first HD Blu-ray titles – will be joined subsequently by a further ‘growing roster of titles’. Hopefully some of those will be good or high profile enough to capture the public’s imagination.
At least there should be plenty of Ultra HD TVs in circulation by 2016 to keep Sony’s Ultra HD Blu-ray discs company. SPHE President Man Jit Singh points out that according to some analyst estimates, more than 100 million Ultra HD TVs will be in US homes by 2019, while the latest figures from the Digital Entertainment Group show that sales of Ultra HD TVs rose by a mammoth 494% in the third quarter of 2015, meaning that nearly three million US homes now have a 4K/Ultra HD TV.
Sony’s announcement makes it the second film studio to unveil its first raft of Ultra HD Blu-rays, following 20th Century Fox ’s announcement that its Ultra HD Blu-ray debutantes will be Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Exodus: Gods And Kings, Life of Pi and Fantastic Four.
But as well as none of these titles benefitting from much critical acclaim, they’re not particularly ‘hot tickets’, with only Chappie coming out in 2015. And Chappie hardly set the box office alight.
Of course, Sony can only work with titles available in its own studio library. But this library does include some much more acclaimed films, many of which are already available in 4K via Sony’s Video Unlimited service in the US.
The bottom line is that aside, possibly, from The Amazing Spider-Man 2, none of the announced Sony titles are likely to attract film fans to Ultra HD Blu-ray’s cause. So people who buy them will likely only do so through curiosity to see what Ultra HD Blu-ray is capable of, or out of sheer desperation to get some use out of their new Ultra HD Blu-ray player and 4K TV.
Sony has also revealed, though, that inevitably the initial batch of six Ultra HD Blu-ray releases – which were announced 10 years to the day from when Sony announced its first HD Blu-ray titles – will be joined subsequently by a further ‘growing roster of titles’. Hopefully some of those will be good or high profile enough to capture the public’s imagination.
At least there should be plenty of Ultra HD TVs in circulation by 2016 to keep Sony’s Ultra HD Blu-ray discs company. SPHE President Man Jit Singh points out that according to some analyst estimates, more than 100 million Ultra HD TVs will be in US homes by 2019, while the latest figures from the Digital Entertainment Group show that sales of Ultra HD TVs rose by a mammoth 494% in the third quarter of 2015, meaning that nearly three million US homes now have a 4K/Ultra HD TV.
Sony’s announcement makes it the second film studio to unveil its first raft of Ultra HD Blu-rays, following 20th Century Fox ’s announcement that its Ultra HD Blu-ray debutantes will be Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Exodus: Gods And Kings, Life of Pi and Fantastic Four.
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