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Disney - Blu-ray's Fair Weather Friend

Posted by Zonk on from the pick-a-side dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One day they're out, the next day they're in. Back in March, Disney CEO Bob Iger seemed to indicate that his company (which has exclusively backed Blu-ray since the start of the high-def format war) was on the verge of supporting *both* high-def formats. What a difference a couple of months of good press for Blu-ray makes: this week, the CEO reversed his earlier position, saying 'the single greatest thing we can do right now is to not waffle, but to be very, very blunt about it, (and) to continue our support of Blu-ray because we sense a real advantage.'"

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  1. Disney's largest shareholder.... by Whiney+Mac+Fanboy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Disney's largest shareholder probably gave Iger a bollocking. After all, Apple is on the blue ray Association Board of Directors.

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    There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
  2. Doesn't mention the little problem of broken DRM by Whuffo · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Seems strange that this announcement comes so shortly after an AACS key was spread all over the internet; it seems that HD-DVD's protection is pretty well beyond defending now. It's not totally broken yet, but the writing is on the wall.

    Blu-Ray has additional copy protection in addition to AACS, so any media mogul who is depending on DRM to protect his profits would naturally be waving the Blu-Ray banner at this point.

    Of course, Blu-Ray will have all of its protections defeated too - it's just a matter of time.

  3. Blu-Ray Can Hold More Commercials by joe_n_bloe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With Blu-Ray, Disney can easily put an entire hour of un-skippable high-def commercials, trailers, disclaimers, warnings, notices, and animated logos in front of every movie, even if the next Pirates of the Caribbean is 3 hours long.

    So in their shoes I'd be thinking Blu-Ray too.