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I hope there will be more Blu-ray anime in the future.

but even American TV series haven't made the move to HD yet. Anime was a fairly late in going from VHS to DVD and that was during the early days of the anime boom. Now when the future of domestic anime distribution is becoming uncertain it isn't likely that we'll see them make the leap any time soon.

I think the only non-HD show I watched in 2007 was the G4 productions Attack of the Show and X-Play. Everything else that I followed (Chuck, Heroes, Pushing Daisies, Journeyman, and a handful of others) were aired in HD, so I believe it is fair to say that American series have made the move. There are a couple of series that were not originally aired in HD, but were mastered in HD (like Rescue Me, and Battlestar Gallactica) but I picked up the HD-DVD and Blu-ray editions which look great.

Attention Japan (03:51 PM EST): Claiming that the lack of region coding on high definition formats is an impediment to releasing there due to the fear of reverse importation is a straw man argument. Considering that the majority of cheap DVD players available worldwide and the easy availability of information on how to unlock them online, making this claim is the same beyond bordering on silly. It's like claiming that having locks on your front door are the most important thing yet you leave all your windows and back door unlocked at the same time. DVD is a completely open and broken format and the people that want to reverse import from Japan to the US are already doing so and have done so for years now. HD DVD is completely region free and Blu-ray has the US and Japan in the same region and has set rules in place to encourage no region coding. This is simple fact and the sooner that companies come to grips with it and move forward with a better plan, the less silly companies will look when posing such straw man arguments.

Eh, no offense but there wouldn't be THAT much of a difference between blu ray and regular DVD anime.. just price difference maybe. I'm going to stick to buying DVD anime probably until something noticeably better than blu ray and hd comes out.

There is also Tekkon Kinkreet, Wings of Honneamise, SOS Metro Tokyo Explorers. and Jin-Roh for Blu-ray, as well as Freedom for HD-DVD. The Initial D live action movie and new Appleseed are available for pre-order.

There are a bunch of titles available in Japan which share the same region code as the US. Many of these titles like Innocence and many of the Bandai VIsual releases also have the English subs and dubs included. I'm considering on buying the Utawarerumono box set which is priced similarly to most non highdefinition R2 releases and includes sub and dubs.

No offense, if you can't get the difference between blu ray and regular dvd anime, you need to get your eyes check or maybe you need to get a good hdtv instead. Something better than blu ray is not going to happened for a very long time, the max resolution for hdtv at the moment is 1080p, something better than blu ray wont be out for a long time.

No offense, if you can't get the difference between blu ray and regular dvd anime, you need to get your eyes check or maybe you need to get a good hdtv instead.