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Warner Backs Blu-Ray. End Times For HD-DVD?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the sure-why-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The NY Times reports: In addition to Apple, Warner Brothers is now going to throw its weight behind the Blu-ray format for high-definition disks. Warner has been the only major studio to publish its movies in both Blu-ray and HD DVD formats. Today, the studio announced that from now on, it would only issue movies in Blu-ray. Richard Greenfield, the media analyst with Pali Research, wrote that this marks the end of the format wars: "We expect HD DVD to 'die' a quick death.""

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  1. Welcome to slashdong! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Suck it long and suck it hard.

  2. Re:What's that sound? by Blkdeath · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not to have to download and install new firmware to a DVD player, not to find that their player doesn't support all the features on a newer disc, to be able to play a DVD purchased from anywhere without worrying about region locking. Sounds like he had a pretty good grasp of what mainstream consumers want, actually.

    Agreeing with his ridiculous strawman makes you just as wrong as he does, FWIW.

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