HD DVD's Are Out! Batman, Serenity, Chronos and Constantine

Okay so sticking with a Sci-Fi / Fantasy theme, the first HD-DVD's have shipped in the states. We thought about picking one up to look at the box, but that would be it. We have no HD-DVD player, or a HDTV because we just haven't bought one yet. We don't really want to if we can help it.

So let's have a look at one shall we...

Region 1 - Serenity (from DVDBoxOffice £17.54)
Erm, well that's it really what else is there to say? There are the same extras you get on the regular disc, the cases look big and red and you get a high definition version of a movie you probably already own. What's really good is that it's the price of a DVD, we expected the studios to go a bit mad and start charging thirty odd quid. What's funny is that it's about the same price as the UMD version of the movie (£16.56).

Anyway there's a review right here so go check it out!

AintItCool have had a quick look at them too with some Q&A's, but to be frank we're really surprised there hasn't been a lot more noise about these. We just happened to be signed up to the newsletter on DVDBoxOffice.com!

The only thing we wonder about is the tagline at the bottom of each case, "The Best In Picture, Sound And Interactivity". We can understand the Picture and Sound bits, but how are they the best for Interactivity? There's no extras, so are the menu's really that good?