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Another hit for Toshiba and HD DVD |
Just earlier this week Warner Bros. Entertainment, the studio with the industries largest selection of movies, changed the tide in the high definition format war in favor of Sony by announcing that they are going with Blu-ray discs exclusively. Warner’s intention was to end the battle and consumer confusion hopefully resulting in improved DVD sales in 2008. It appears their move just might be working as Variety states they have confirmed information that Universal, who previously has been HD DVD-exclusive, has ended their promise to continue with HD DVD only and could possibly be making a change to Blu-ray.
Paramount along with Universal are two of the big seven studios that have been hanging on with Toshiba and HD DVD, but they too have a clause to produce Blu-ray as well after Warner’s decision. Back in June of 2007 Blockbuster also made a move to Blu-ray over HD DVD which combined with recent news is making things look very grim for the HD DVD future.
Universal hasn’t announced to end producing pictures on the HD DVD format quite yet, and even Warner is going to finish out with HD DVD for another few months which means that even if Blu-ray comes ahead it will not be happening over night.
TAGS: Blu-ray, HD DVD, Toshiba   |
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These rumors have already been debunked as false. Universal and Paramount both have released press announcements yesterday that they will continue to support HD DVD!
To sign a petition against the Warner descision to drop support for HD DVD go here: http://www.petitiononline.com/SAVEHDD/petition.html
No, this is true. Please read more carefully. Universal and Paramount have not announced any shift in allegiance, but Warner’s decision activated ‘escape’ clauses in the contracts, thus ending their promise (i.e. their contractual obligation) to remain exclusively HD DVD, just as the article says.
Sign all the petitions you want. Petitions won’t change things, but buying a few million more HD DVDs might have.
Paramount and Universal have both said their current plans are to support HD-DVD. Neither of them sad they will ONLY support HD-DVD and neither of them said they will still be supporting HD-DVD at any point in the future.
HD-DVD has lost and the best thing everyone can do is leave HD-DVD the hell alone and end this mess as soon as possible.
Anyone who signs that stupid petition above me is basically saying they want the format war to continue and even if Warner went back to HD-DVD BluRay would still have more manufacturer support, more studio support, more worldwide stand alone player sales and 350k+ PlayStation 3 BluRay players being sold every week.
I just want this format war to be over. I sat it out until this past November (Until I saw Spiderman 3 on Blu Ray and 60″ LCD).
I had no favorites, no vested interest in either format, so I did what I did when I bought my first computer. Do I want Mac or PC? Hmmmm. Look at the titles available. That’s what decided me on my first computer. Macintosh computers are still around, in fact I’m using one now. Maybe HD DVD will survive. Almost ALL of the movies I tend to see lately are Disney, Fox, Sony and Warners. Deciding on Blu Ray was a no brainer for me.
For myself, I’m not believing anything as fact until I see the press release from Paramount and Universal. It would be awesome if they would also support Blu Ray, but like I said, they haven’t been producing too movies that I’m dying to see on high def and the standard def movies look fabulous in my Blu Ray player.
Hi I want to be forced into buying a PS3 to play the inferior format and inferior games. Go Blu! Go PS3! We’re Number 3!!!
HdDvdNet, you’re pathetic. Give up already.
Even though Universal and Paramount have both come out and said their “current plan is to continue to support HD-DVD”, not only is the word “current” conspicuously present in the statement, the word “exclusively” is conspicuously absent. They can’t anything else for contractual reasons, but you bet that once they have the legal kinks sorted out they will support both formats and doing so will put the final nail on HD-DUD’s coffin.
Bluray FTW..
i LOL at those still clinging to the thread that is hd-dvd.
open your EYES!