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- username9000, on 10/10/2007, -8/+333I think this is a pretty surprising decision.
- Silince, on 10/10/2007, -6/+184Just when it looked like things were going Sony's way for once, it looks like we could end up with another BetaMax/UMD situation. Sony has never had a successful proprietary format.
They could keep this war going a long, long time though, just by releasing their own movies on Blu-Ray with the combination of many people having Blu-Ray players by default (PS3's).
I really just wish this war would end. - blackyiraqi, on 10/10/2007, -4/+162I just want one format to win so i can buy some movies, I haven't and won't buy any high def movies at all until there is a clear winner
- pooper, on 10/10/2007, -11/+137Wow, losing Dreamworks is a HUGE blow for Sony.
- MikeNovick, on 10/21/2007, -36/+148From a business perspective this seems rather stupid. I wonder how much the HD-DVD camp paid for this exclusivity. Blu-Ray has outsold HD-DVD this year 2-to-1 and still Paramount and Dreamworks decide to go from supporting both systems to supporting only HD-DVD? Where is the logic in that? Or has the official statement been interpreted totally wrong?
- culturemagnet, on 10/21/2007, -21/+116i hate this crap... i was SO looking forward to Transformers on Blu-ray.. and I'm NOT getting a second player, just so I can watch Paramount movies..
I'll stick to plain old DVD for another 5 years until a new format comes out...
I just wish these companies weren't so greedy and would actually look at the benefits to the consumer... :( - hungryforair, on 10/21/2007, -10/+100The reason for the jump is probably because of the projected Sub $200 dollar HD DVD players this Christmas. Those would Boom in sales and in sales of HD DVDs.
- mt066, on 10/10/2007, -9/+99OMFG! The format war is over! Again!
- ha1f, on 10/21/2007, -25/+109*****. i hate myself for buying a ps3...
- JefffN, on 10/10/2007, -11/+78Is it weird that the reason I want Blu-ray to lose is because I want Blu-ray players to end up getting sold very cheaply just so I can buy a bunch, take them apart and steal the lasers?
- mcaaronice, on 10/10/2007, -34/+100Well, now there will be only one HD format where you can watch Norbit. Take that Blu-ray! This war is now over.
- username9000, on 10/10/2007, -6/+69Quote from Engadget regarding studio support. Again, very surprising considering how much people talked about more support for bluray. I was unaware it was this close.
"So at our count, Blu-ray has eightstudios actively supporting (taking out the two that haven't released a Blu-ray title in months), and HD DVD has 12. So HD DVD actually has more studio support at this point if you factor in the porn studios and smaller studios like HBO and First Look Studios. If you remove these two and add back in Fox and MGM (assuming they'll some day release some more titles on Blu-ray), the two formats are dead even at 10 a piece." - tvh2k, on 10/10/2007, -12/+65Sucks to be Blockbuster right now, considering they just announced that they're dropping HD-DVDs from their collection
- mcaaronice, on 10/10/2007, -3/+55Actually, at the bottom is says: Today's announcement does not include films directed by Steven Spielberg as his films are not exclusive to either format.
- lukeamotion, on 10/10/2007, -10/+55I bet Blockbuster is sulking now. Viva le Netflix!
- JackyAppleJones, on 10/10/2007, -12/+56Anyone who starts a sentence with "you sir", is a presumptuous *****.
- jason469, on 10/10/2007, -12/+55I keep telling people not to count HD-DVD out. MS pushes HD-DVD (Xbox 360 add-on) you know damn well HD-DVD isn't going to go down without a fight.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -16/+58Not really. I think these companies have just woken up and realised that if they support BluRay they risk getting screwed by sony just like the music publishers are getting screwed by Apple (in their own minds at least).
Toshy seems to be more open about its format and although not big on anyone's radar, the support that folks like HP and MS (both multi billion dollar companies) are giving to HD is enough to make anyone think twice about the whole thing. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+43Face it, the only successful consumer format Sony has ever had is the floppy disk!
- djSyndrome, on 10/10/2007, -6/+42You're kidding yourself if you think those upscaled DVDs are anywhere near HD quality.
- kevinmotel, on 10/10/2007, -6/+41imma chargin mah blu-ray!
- jedicurt, on 10/10/2007, -1/+34http://www.viacom.com/NEWS/NewsText.aspx?RID=1042073
"Paramount Home Entertainment will issue new releases day and date as well as catalog titles exclusively on HD DVD. Today's announcement does not include films directed by Steven Spielberg as his films are not exclusive to either format."....
Wow, Spielberg is the man, if he has such control over his movies - prockcore, on 10/10/2007, -5/+34The CD was 90% Phillips.
- Nath5000, on 10/10/2007, -11/+38Well, this could also mean that the format war is just going to get a lot more confusing and more people might hold out now to see who "wins" before buying anything. I know some people who started buying Blu-Ray without worry thinking that it would definetly be the winning format after the "Blockbuster chooses blu-ray" announcement. I for one think HD-DVD is a more marketable format from a layman’s perspective because it uses a brand that people are already familiar with, "DVD," and tags on the new buzzword that even many elderly people with no technical knowledge (like my grandparents) even somewhat understand "HD". Plus I find it easier to picture movies like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather Collection etc in a red case while only movies like "Surfs Up" "Jaws" and "The Abyss" etc seem to suit the blue case color of Blu-ray movies. Just my opinion.
- Gunegune, on 10/21/2007, -13/+38It's rumored it was driven by a $150M exclusivity deal (which isn't much when you consider how much they could have made with Blu-ray in the coming years) with the HD DVD Group. Source: http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=412
Here's the AP release (as posted by username9000) if you'd like to review it. http://www.viacom.com/NEWS/NewsText.aspx?RID=1042073 - betterth, on 10/10/2007, -3/+28I totally agree, this is, well impressive. This certainly moves us away from what was looking to become a BluRay victory.
This means that HDDVD now has Universal, Weinstein and Paramount, and Paramount/Dreamworks is the box office leader of the year. BluRay has Sony Pictures (big surprise!), Disney and Fox.
It's going to be an interesting end of the year for the format war now. - GliTCH82, on 10/21/2007, -6/+30Blu-Ray players are much slower than HD-DVD players. Blu-Ray is designed to infringe on fair use and is not only more expensive to manufacture, but it's also more inherently complex than HD-DVD.
- superkendall, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28The rumor is $50m to Paramount, $100m to Dreamworks:
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/desperation-move-cash-grab-or-intensified-blu-rayhd-dvd-format-war/ - ZigVicious, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23and 0.5% irish magic
- noblepenguin, on 10/10/2007, -4/+26You, sir, are clearly an evil genius hellbent on taking over the world.
I won't have it, sir! I won't have it!!! - superkendall, on 10/21/2007, -9/+31IT is a surprise, however the rumor is it involves $50m to Paramount and $100m to Dreamworks from someone (not sure who).
It's a blow to Blu-Ray (not to Sony in particular) but not enough I think to offset Fox and Disney and Sony all being Blu-Ray exclusive. - spoiled1, on 10/21/2007, -3/+24Where am I?
- Visceral, on 10/10/2007, -9/+30Big news and not good for blue ray or Sony or consumers for that matter as they've clearly been favoring blue ray. However, that matters little as is proven time and time again. If the blue ray camp doesn't have a answer to this and quick, it might be a turning point for hd-dvd. At least we'll maybe finally get rid of one of them.
- apoc06, on 10/21/2007, -2/+22unfortunately thats the reason many people are buying hd dvds by accident thinking they can run them in their normal dvd players and returning them.
- waterdrop, on 10/10/2007, -3/+23Buying a combo HD-DVD and Blu-Ray player is probably your best bet. I just don't see either format going anywhere anytime soon.
- zuppy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21I just don't care which one wins, but pretty please, decide faster which is going to be the format and let's switch all on it.
- rcarroll215, on 10/10/2007, -11/+30betamaxed!!!
- zweben, on 10/20/2007, -4/+23If Blu-ray fails, the prices will drop significantly, but not nearly as much as they would eventually drop to if they were a success.
DVD burners started out at $1000. Now you can get one for what? $20? - bilbravo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+18You had me until you started talking case colors.
- dagamer34, on 10/10/2007, -12/+30Because HD DVD players will hit the magic $200 mark far sooner than Bluray players will. Especially if the PS3 is the sole player driving the BluRay market, that means it could be years before you can get a $200 BluRay player. The cheapeast BluRay player that isn't a PS3 still sells for $599 compared to HD DVD's cheapest at $299.
Doesn't take much common sense to figure out that people will pick a cheap player over a better format any day of the week. - byrdgang, on 10/10/2007, -6/+24If they genuinely cared about customers, they would ensure that formats were entirely open, not proprietary. Making both formats entirely open would mean that anyone could use them, and therefore, exclusive deals wouldn't make any sense. Proprietary standards sicken me, because every number of years, consumers have to dish out a bunch of money while the fight between different standards goes on. Instead of making things more difficult for consumers, they can come together, make their standards open, and decide on a single standard so that we don't have to buy multiple devices to use media for different devices.
Their tactics makes me support circumvention through methods such as DeCSS. - crackedplastic, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20Well, that and once the studios STOP making ten billion editions of the same damn movie. Aren't we all sick of the "Ultra Ultra" editions by now? Just make one with everything and leave it at that.
- reed311, on 10/10/2007, -12/+29I don't really care which format wins, though I think Blu-Ray would personally work out better for me; only because it holds more data. I would want a burner for my computer so that I could burn more data to them than a HD-DVD disc. I hate having dozens of discs laying around and with Blu-Ray, I would have less discs cluttering my work space.
- Warhammer, on 10/10/2007, -6/+22Such an odd move. They are basically limiting their audience. They surely must be making profit on whatever blu-ray movies they sell along with the HD. My only thought is that Paramount is getting some kick-back $$ from an HD-maker somewhere. Otherwise it doesn't make sense as a business model.
I personally could not care since I have both a PS3 and a 360 with HD, so I watch both formats. But people who want one or the other are going to have to decide on Spiderman vs. Transformers basically. - RooDoG, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20This is a surprise considering Blu-ray sales have been so promising and with blockbuster support. I wonder how this decision was made?
- ryan112ryan, on 10/10/2007, -6/+22in for HOLOGRAPHIC media!
screw this BS, give me a postage stamp size piece of glass with a few terabytes on it and call it a day - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -7/+23I think the under rated Bittorrent Disk format is the way to go...
- cwoolf34, on 10/10/2007, -3/+19Sony invented the Floppy Disk and CD!?!
- WhereAmI, on 10/21/2007, -8/+23Clever. Did you think of that all by yourself?
- allywilson, on 10/10/2007, -5/+20If you're gonna post one sided stats - don't post at all.
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