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Tuesday January 8, 2008 2:15 pm
HD DVD vs. Blu-ray Paramount Denies Rumors of Defection from HD DVD
Some channels were reporting earlier that Paramount was looking to bail from the HD boat, enabled by a clause in their contract that cited Warner Bros. departure as grounds to themselves switch. Paramount is now denying these claims, their spokesperson saying “Paramount’s current plan is to continue to support the HD DVD format.” Warner’s switch resulted in a full 70% of movies now produced by Blu-Ray studios and Blu-Ray booth folk were yesterday claiming that they’ve clearly won. But the HD people we’ve spoken to seem resolute for now, though it wouldn’t be the first time someone failed epicly even as they denied it outright
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Whatever. Like it even matters. Warner’s decision to go Blu was the REAL back breaker in this format war. Not to mention that Sony just announced that 1.2 million PS3’s were sold during the holidays. Do you think that the 1.2 million new blu-ray player owners will be looking for blu-ray movies?? Hmmm. Yes. Yes they will. That’s a lot of movies….and that’s FINALLY the end of this format war.
Here lies HD-DVD
Died January, 4 2008
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I would not take hd dvd even if it was free. hd dvd is the devil. it must die.
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die.
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