VLC is king!

That video looks fantastic, a fresh change to the norm in bike videos!

re-Focus, Earthed, Clays films etc are all shot on HDV, but at the moment its not really commercially viable to do a production run of HD films.

Personally I thought the Virtuous trailer was a bit flat, most of it was still shots from a tripod, which look very nice and all, but would be boring as hell for an hour.

It looks nice though.

I agree, the first anti gravity was shot from tripod IIRC, and yes, it was very boring for an hour! But yeah it does look nice, I'd quite like to see the whole thing.

Really looking forward to this coming out, but I don't have a bluray player... I wonder if they'll offer it as a 10-20GB download... they should, because if they do they'll get my money, and if they don't, they wont

It may be released on DVD as well.  It definitely won't ONLY be released on DVD, as the whole point is it's HD, and DVD can't do HD.

HD-DVD has died, so it'll be coming out on Bluray, I'm sure.  There may be a DVD version as well for the masses.

Bluray discs cannot be played in a normal DVD player, you need a Bluray drive, which comes in one of three guises:

* one for your PC, just like your DVD drive.  Many laptops come with bluray drives these days
* standalone Bluray player - just like the DVD player you most likely have under your TV at the moment

and by far and away the most common I image:

* sony PS3

I have none of the above, but can still watch HD content by downloading it from t'internet.  My screen isn't quite full HD (1980x1080) but at 1680x1050 it's close enough that things like that Virtuous trailer (and hence the whole film) look AMAZING.

Looks boring.

99% of it will probably be in slow-mo too.


I won't be buying it. 

I would imagine they will release it on Blue-ray just as soon as they make enough from selling the DVD version to cover the astronomical costs of producing a Blue-ray disc...

I think the whole thing was a pretty impressive marketing ploy though, claiming to be the first HD movie, even though that was a lie, everyone believed them. And then to release it in standard definition with no definitive answer on the date of the Hi-def version too...

Don't get me wrong, I am a big fan of new bike films, keeps people like me on our toes, but I don't like the way it has been promoted.

Also, New World Disorder is partly shot on HDCam, which is much better quality than the bog standard HDV they shot Virtuous on, but you don't hear them going on about HiDef...