| Has Warner Bros made Blu-ray the new way for HD? |
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| Written by Stan Beer | |
| Sunday, 06 January 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 2 The HD DVD camp is now looking increasingly isolated, with just Universal, Paramount and Dreamworks in its corner. What's more, the Paramount and Dreamworks exclusivity, bought for a purported US$150 million, only runs for the remainder of 2008. The dismay and importance of the Warner Bros decision was all over the face of the HD DVD camp at the Consumer Elelctronics Show. A media party celebrating supposedly important developments in the HD DVD campaign has been cancelled. The growing dominance of Blu-ray over HD DVD demonstrates that this war was never really about the hardware - at least not the standalone hardware. If it had been, then HD DVD, with the much lower cost player technology, would have won hands down. There were a number factors that have tipped the scales towards Blu-ray. From the outset, the Sony developed format had the support of most of the major studios, including of course Sony Pictures. As a result, there were more exclusive Blu-ray titles being released than exclusive HD DVD titles. |
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