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Universal Studios Backs Out of Blu-Ray

evilavatar.com — Xbox Addict has posted a short article with quotes from PC Magazine, indicating that Universal Studios has decided not to back Sony's Blu-Ray DVD format.

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  • nklnch, on 10/12/2007, -15/+53Again?

    As the one and only major studio that's not supporting Blu-Ray, they've sure "backed out" of Blu-Ray quite a few times. This really must be the death stroke for Blu-Ray as reported all over the Internet yesterday. Thanks xboxaddict.com
  • apoc06, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22i dont recall them ever fully devoting themselves to anything /other/ than HDDVD.

    correct me if im wrong.
    • blargsoup, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Why isn't anyone posting the article about how Apple has given up on HD-DVD in favor of Blu-ray?
    • dharm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6because bluray association doesnt spread fud as much as the hddvd marketing group
  • HOTM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Blu-ray

    Apple Computer Corp, Dell Inc, Hewlett Packard Company, Hitachi Ltd, LG Electronics Inc, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Panasonic (***** Electric), Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd, Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, Sun Microsystems, TDK Corporation, Thomson, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures and Television, Warner Bros. Entertainment.

    HD-DVD

    Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Universal Studios, The Weinstein Company, and is non-exclusively backed by Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., New Line, HBO, DreamWorks, Image Entertainment, Magnolia Pictures, Brentwood Home Video, Warner Music Group, Ryko, Goldhil Entertainment, and Studio Canal.

    Should be intresting.

    Personally, I think Blu-ray will win. One reason, it is in stuff. Look at all those computer companies(HD-DVD has some, but not as many) that have it. Their high end stuff will start to come with drives soon. Apple, Dell, and Sony. Also, it is in the PS3. Every PS3 sold is also a blu-ray player sold.

    Second, look at the studios. Sony, Apple, and Disney. Movies like Cars, Spiderman 3, and maybe if we are lucky(I'm seeing a Holiday 2007 re-release personally), even Star Wars will all be on blu-ray.
    • samdu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Many of those HD-DVD "exclusive" studios are actually cross-platform supporters. And Universal has never been interested in Blu-Ray.
    • dharm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18out of that list you provided for hd-dvd, hd-dvd only has 4 exlusives (you listed 8 of them as exclusives)
      toshiba, sanyo, microsoft, and Universal

      And only one of them (universal) is a production company.

      Universal never was backing BR. So this is news becuase?

      titles should be 'THIS JUST IN!... NOTHING HAPPENED!!'

      hate sony all you want... but there is more too BR than just sony... quit the fud
    • WhereAmI, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2One word why Blu will win: Disney. Not the PS3, not anything else(well that many + Disney helps) but when DVD's were new and I was young, I saw many "Disney DVD"'s coming out. It took a bit before I found out DVD was not a Disney product.

      and to be non-biased: HD-DVD may win because people are stupid. the one word here(well a phrase of 3 words): DVD. people will see DVD and think HD-DVD is the superior format. I hope you can see this point, but the Disney is all powerful.
    • gamer82987, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1@HOTM

      you forgot INTEL to the hd-dvd group!!!

      *if you're gonna name semi-conductor companies, plese don't forget the biggest semi-conductor company of them all.
    • WhereAmI, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I forgot about the porn
      PORN
      porn is important here. remember this discussion?
      porn is on blu ray so far
      find article otherwise
      lol
    • projektmayhem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i know it's semi-joking there about porn, but it's one of the reasons DVD was so popular
    • fredgsanford, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Personally, I think neither will win. We all have a hundred DVDs each, we don't want to replace them. And for the guy who said Disney will be the deciding factor - ha, which disc do you think a parent is going to buy for his 3 year old (remember, no matter what, the kid is going to treat the disc like a frisbee or a peanut butter sandwich) - a $12 DVD or a $25 Blu-Ray disc?
  • acurism, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Get your facts straight,
    Universal was never in Blu-Ray to begin with!

    Stop making it seem as if somebody dropped out of the Blu-Ray camp!

    And Universal is the only major studio not backing Blu-Ray...The rest have been backing Blu-Ray since day one and it is the main reason it will win this format war.
  • Pic0, on 10/12/2007, -17/+7More like Blue-Gay
  • usherzx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5seriously why is it such a big deal
    when dvd's came out everybody freaked out and was somewhat skeptical, should we buy a dvd player or should we keep watching vhs

    just let them sell their ***** and if u like one or the other - *****, buy the damn thing!
  • yyanri, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3As much as I love sony, I can't help but feel that they let down their loyal consumer base. They pimp their blue-ray format to the general public but now they'll have dissapointing holiday figures with such a small supply of PS3s. The release is not even going to be world wide anymore. Sony and the blu-ray camp better develop more efficient prodcution methods if they want to come out on top of this one.
    • P5ycHo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why is BlueRay not good enough for you? What's missing?
  • bgoodknight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I like how everyone is arguing over something that is meaningless. BR...HDDVD...Bag of dog *****...and so on, nobody cares and this is going to fail just like the
    "dual layer burners" did. It's a stupid and overpriced idea.
  • Livewire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I personally think the whole DVD concept needs to move toward the same direction music went. When's the last time you went down to a store to buy music? The money and research shoud be spent on fiber optic internet and technology to get the movies playing from your computer to your tv.
    • nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well aparently only 10% of ipod users buy music of iTunes... so... i guess people go pretty often.

      fewer than 10% download illegally (at least admit it).
  • Alphateam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Personally.
    I don't give a crap who is supporting what. One will win in the end. Then every company that supported the other format will come out with "Movie /Whatever/ : Super Cool Never Before Seen Unrated Edition" on the format that won. We will all end up buy 10 versions of the same movie.
    I'm going to wait a year or 2 and get one after the dust settles. I have WAY to many copies of DVD's that I have dupes of because of some "Super Cool Edition". I'm not going to have dupes of the same movie on 2 different formats.
    • WhereAmI, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3DVD's wont die anytime soon anyway. 3-4 years is before you have to worry. VHS still comes out, I think I rented AVP on VHS. but that was in the middle of ***** WI. I dont think many people had DVD players(like tolken from south park lol)
  • WhereAmI, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5This article, and the article just like it from a couple days ago(see above) is exactly why Digg is being called biased and against Sony. Universal was NEVER backing Blu-Ray. Innaccurate AND a dupe, just like the last one, but the biased opinions will keep this and the dupe on the front page.
  • gxcdesign, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Bluray has far better movies.


    If Disney launches a line of Disney Bluray families will buy, it's all about kids
    • WhereAmI, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3thank you for seeing my point(actually I posted after you)

      so thank you for HAVING A BRAIN
  • lesskiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2There are more things going on behind the scenes. It isn't just about who thinks which format is better. There are also production problems with mastering Blu-Ray titles. The only stable-working solution for mastering Blu-Ray is from Sony, and it is too expensive and too complicated. The production houses aren't too thrilled with it. The only other option on the horizon is from Singulus and Philips, but they don't have working system to promote. There are currently working Singulus HD mastering platforms at Technicolor Universal in Camarillo, CA and at Cinram in Pennsilvania.

    Also, if Blu-Ray wins the format war, the replication facilities have to purchase entirely new replication lines. Some of these places have more than 100 lines, and at 1 million per, it can add up. The current DVD 5 and 9 lines can be upgraded to create HD discs.

    If that isn't enough, there is always the porn factor. Whichever format the adult industry can afford and promote effectively will get a big boost.
  • boohoo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Why would you PREFER to pay more for a bluray disc than an hd-dvd disc? Bluray discs cost more. And what do you get for that extra $5 per disc? NOTHING.
    • dharm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2larger capacity and scratch resistant coating?... that sums up the differences between them basicaly...
  • damonlab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why would you care unless you had a 60 inch HDTV screen? Most people (like myself) have standard definition TVs that are not that large. For people like myself, DVDs look fine on the home television.

    I went into a Best Buy and looked at a large HDTV TV with a HDTV signal running into it and I can honestly say that I did not see that much improvement over the same large HDTV playing a standard DVD.
  • Darksoul, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Ya know this figures to come out of some fan-boy xbox 1.5 fan, but what I find even funnier is they all talk crap about Sony fans and expect them not to say anything hello double standard anybody dam, and this news is old and they where never going to back blue-ray has anybody even read how blue-ray is owning hd-dvd, yet another anti Sony PS3 hate blogg on digg.

    As others are saying whats it's it matter there aren't enough people that have hdtv's yet as I don't either once it becomes more main stream then I'll care I will also buy what ever gives me the best picture which is why when I'm ready to get that PS3 and my hdtv I will have the best of both worlds instead of having to pay for everything separately like *cough* 360.

    Meanwhile I'll just sit back and laugh at all you that get caught up in all this crap I will wait like another year or so to get my hdtv and PS3 that way I don't deal with all the crap you people like to go threw like the 360's over heating. And don't tell me it's not happing it is.
  • ChaoStar, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Not surprising. Which Sony proprietary format has actually done well?
    • liquilife, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2The Beta-Max was a smashings success. Oh wait...
    • dharm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Umatic tapes
      Floppy disks (3.5" diskettes)
      Video8/Hi8/Digital8
      S/PDIF -- sony/philips
      CD -- sony/philips
      SACD -- sony/philips


      betamax failed because couldnt record aslong as vhs, but produced a higher quality...
      the presented betamax to ***** (panasonic) but at the same time JVC presented VHS to them... JVC was a subsidiary of *****... so they screwed sony and went with jvc
  • o0uN0watEiz0o, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Beta-Max had no support from other companies, but Blue-Ray does. so comparing Blue-Ray to Beta-Max is just stupid
    • gwolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1UMD had a lot of studio support too, as I recall.
    • dharm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1UMD were made to provide media content to psp users... it was never marketed as a replacement for another medium.
  • lesskiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It really doesn't matter who supports what. The consumer will drive the companies to release their titles on whatever platforms are purchased, which won't be ***** for a while. Thinking that this whole thing will be decided by which team has more people on their side of the teeter-totter is just stupid.
  • RogueJediX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2This was already on the front page, and with the same faulty description too. As many diggers pointed out Universal Studios never did back Blu-Ray, so I'm gonna bury this. Right after I decide whether I should classify it as a dupe or inaccurate. Probably as a dupe, since the first one was inaccurate to begin with.
    Please, get your facts together before you post stuff like this.
  • cal01, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Why the hell is this not [inaccurate] yet? Anyone who's remotely logical and not a fanboy would know that this is total FUD.
    • cal01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I know commenting to my own post is bad ettiquette, but yaaaay finally!
  • CKR600, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Who cares who supports what. There is only one deciding company that will tell who lives and who dies.

    Blockbuster (Viacom?); They can tell everyone "No Thanks and please send us just DVD's, we can't have 3000 sections for every format for every store".
  • Ingersoll, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe someone should tell the folks at blu-raydisc.com to pull Universal's logo from their "supporters page" then...

    http://www.blu-raydisc.com/Index.html
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