from nytimes.com
January 4, 2008, 5:37 pm
Did Warner Brothers Just Kill HD DVD?
By Saul Hansell
In addition to Apple, Warner Brothers is now going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format for high-definition disks. Warner has been the only major studio to publish its movies in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Today, the studio announced that from now on, it would only issue movies in Blu-ray.
Until now, the war between the formats has seemed like a standoff. Of the big studios, Disney, Fox and Sony have backed Blu-ray. NBC Universal and Viacom back HD DVD.
Richard Greenfield, the media analyst with Pali Research, wrote that this marks the end of the format wars: “We expect HD DVD to ‘die’ a quick death.†He noted that NBC Universal has not committed to backing HD DVD exclusively. Viacom’s studios — Paramount and Dreamworks — have an exclusive deal with the backers of HD DVD, but Mr. Greenfield wonders if there is an escape clause.
Mr. Greenfield further wonders if consumers, on hearing this news, will return their Christmas HD DVD players and exchange them for Blu-ray devices. I’m not so sure that many people pay that close attention to Hollywood. But I certainly wouldn’t spend money on an HD DVD player until this all sorts out.
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by schwenko » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:44 am
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by Frau_Blucher » Fri Jan 04, 2008 12:00 pm
Yay! I hate this half-assed shit. Now I hope Jobs announces BD-Macs at Macworld so I can finally upgrade.
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by empyrean » Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:05 pm
WTF!!! Do they have any idea how much blu ray player costs here??!! 30 fucking thousand pesos!!
DVD costs only 1500 to 8000!!!
Give third world countries a break!!
DVD costs only 1500 to 8000!!!
Give third world countries a break!!
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by Bitter Almonds » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:30 am
<p align="justify">I'm not sweatin' this shit. Until Criterion, NoShame, Blue Underground, Anchor Bay, Redemption, Cult Epics, Mondo Macabro, and other relevant movie distributors start pressing in HD and/or Blu-Ray, both formats are irrelevant to a movie fanatic[}:)] Once such companies are releasing strictly in one or both, then I know I'm beat and I have to start amassing another movie collection from scratch[xx(]
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by Bitter Almonds » Sat Jan 05, 2008 1:31 am
<p align="justify">pr0n movies come out as HD-DVD[}:)] I'll take that over WB Blu-Ray shit any day.
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by Frau_Blucher » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:43 pm
It's over...thank you.
"Toshiba quits HD DVD business"
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/19/technol ... 2008021904
The fooking prices better not go up. [:(!]
"Toshiba quits HD DVD business"
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/19/technol ... 2008021904
The fooking prices better not go up. [:(!]
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