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Paramount to Drop Blu-Ray for HD-DVD

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the eggs-and-baskets dept.

JM78 writes to tell us The New York Times is reporting that Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation will be dropping support for Blu-ray Disc and going solely with HD-DVD for their next gen DVDs. "Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation, said consumers seeking to switch to high-definition DVDs will be enticed by the movies available for HD-DVD players. He added the lower price for the Toshiba devices will appeal to the family market. 'It's a game-changer, what they're doing, and it's why we decided to throw in with them,' Katzenberg said."

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  1. Yeah, right. by taskiss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I smell someone making an argument to get a better deal.

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    1. Re:Yeah, right. by Araxen · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I'm backing whomever gets sub $100 first. Blu-ray doesn't appear to be too aggressive in the pricing part of this war. The dvd's themselves are a stalemate are far as I'm concerned. I'll be surprised if any studio will actually fill up an entire blu-ray dvd to make HD-DVD look that much more inferior of a format so it all comes down to price for me.

      The studios will go wherever the biggest user base is eventually.

  2. Re:What's the Motive? by ytsejammer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Really? Has there really been a major outcry among studios that DVD was just too small? If there has been, I haven't been aware of it.

    Besides, do you really think there will be another physical format after this? I'd be willing to bet that by the time this format war is finished and another one ready to begin, digital distribution will be quite ubiquitous.