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Blu-ray Disc Association speaks on Dreamworks, Paramount move

Posted Aug 21, 2007 at 4:31PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: DreamWorks, gaming accessories, Paramount Pictures

The Blu-ray Disc Association U.S. has released an official statement in response to the move made by Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Animations to join the rival HD-DVD camp a few days ago.

Andy Parsons, the Blu-ray Disc Association's US president said that the announcement made by the two giant entertainment firms was untimely, considering the momentum enjoyed by their format.

"Blu-ray title sales continue to outpace HD-DVD sales by nearly a 2 to 1 margin, and major retailers have expressed a strong preference for Blu-ray," comments Parsons.

The Blu-ray Association chief adds, "Moreover, the price delta between HD DVD and Blu-ray players has been greatly reduced in the past few months," and he pointed out that this is a trend that's bound to go on until issues regarding the cost of Blu-ray technology disappear.

"Under these circumstances, we can only imagine what could have enticed Paramount to walk away from a format that is clearly selling significantly more software than the HD DVD format," concludes Parsons.

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bill refuses to be called gay' he knows if blue ray wins..........sony's finacial problems will disappear and sony would gain alotta money for the ps4

if sony wins then they'll get a good slice off every blue ray sold and player.................

that sux that bill gots soo much evil money'........(stealing ideas, games, and buying everyone off under the table)

he paid dreamworks and paramount 150 million bucks to F' around with sony

the weird things is that sony owns Viacom' thats why all the stupid bewitched and other movies are being made

and under the paramount mountain' it says ........a viacom company.

its like their playing us both ways to get us to really go out and buy and defend a disc type....anyways im for it cause they want to advance us into the future.unlike nintendo with last gen graphics.....all the time, n64 and gamecube is all their offering...sony said they could have easiloy came out with a stick that you fling around for the ps2 and sold it for $130 all together ...........which would kill the WIIvolution in its gay trax

# Great — Guest 2007-08-21 18:10

Let's all beat the dead horse a bit longer shall we? Not to sound crass but what do people really expect? We all agree that competition is a good thing, right? So what if the competition has no clear advantage for the present or the long term? Besides, progress has traditionally only harmed the public interest. I say down with Blu-ray! Down with it! No innovation in my corner of this technology war!

# wow — hush404 2007-08-21 18:20

you say 'gay' a lot.

# FUTURE =Awsome — Guest 2007-08-21 19:06

dont you wanna get closer to a future where if we die we can get cloned and have our thoughts implanted into our new "SUIT" and every body will walk around looking like Jessica Alba and Brad Pitt..............when that time comes i will be the first Scarface, im gonna pick the Al Pacino suit, then if i die again ill get tha Robert DeNiro suit next, and then Keira Augistina so i can play with my A$$

then ill get in my auto pod and listen to my hand held ps.9unit

and ill visit the other dimension and visit my dead relatives in the black and white world

and then ill go out to the space clubs with all my bling and my RED LIGHT OF DOOM pimp hat....and chill with snoop doggs head in the jar(Futurama) ill blow chronic in his face

and pick up my MONKEY BOT Mr.Sparkles from tha dish washer and freeze myself in BEER till the next super bowl

And Ask Clint Eastwood to GET YUNG and make me some more Westerns and mix it up with 007 style sequences

=METAL GEAR SOLID: WEST SIDE!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!11

# Viacom — GordLacey 2007-08-21 19:07

Sony doesn't own Viacom, sorry. Viacom is its own company; they own lots of things (CBS, Paramount, MTV...).

Gord

# whats with sony naming all their doomed products with a B? BM=BR — Guest 2007-08-21 19:19

what movie company is going exclusive blu-ray that isnt owned by sony?

thats right, none.

the results are in, just hope that the ps3 lasts longer than the dreamcast did. the nextbox in the coming years will make it just as short lived though.

atleast HD has quality movies, all sony-boys have to look forward to is spiderman 3. and the only reason sony is making that financial blunder is to give its stock some investment and they have already made tons and tons of money off that movie.

# B? — Guest 2007-08-21 19:25

the mini disc, and the zune were failures

# hmm il look some more — Guest 2007-08-21 19:32

http://www.freepress.net/news/23514

# ... — Guest 2007-08-21 19:34

last time i checked sony didnt own buena vista (disney) and fox announced a bunch of exclusive titles to blue ray

# hmm theirs a connection — Guest 2007-08-21 19:47

SONY=Mc Donalds=Coca Cola=IBM=Linux=Music=TV=Free=Everything(ps2 library)=Lies(for a while at least)=Men 18-35

MicroSoft=Pepsi(Mountain Dew)=Carls Junior=Money Hungry=Shooters=Bad Words=Young Evil Kids

Nintendo=Apple=Furby=Tickle Me Elmo=Pixar=Buger King=Fanta=Old Games=Gay Pride=Girls 4 and younger

*************** *************** ************

YouTube=Stanley "Tookie" Williams=Charles Manson=Lisa Nova=Numa Numa Dance= NewGrounds= Fat-Pie.com= Limewire

# This has nothing to do with Microsoft — Guest 2007-08-21 19:56

Apparently, $150 million was paid by the HD-DVD consortium.

# Bill has nothing to do with it. — Guest 2007-08-21 20:12

Like I said above, it seems that $150 million was paid by the HD-DVD consortium.

You could just as easily say Toshiba paid them.

Yes Microsoft are part of the Toshiba headed Australian HD-DVD consortium created in April, but other members are Intel, Universal pictures, Warner Bros and Paramount.

Oh wait, what was that last one again? Paramount? Hmmm. ;)

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Home_Cinema/DVD/G8U5H9E3

# Money — Temprix 2007-08-21 20:51

Kinda dumb that they took $150 million, because they can make more than that just selling CHEAPER Blu-Ray discs, but I guess if you add that to what they will probably make from HD-DVD sales, then it's what they would have gotten either way.

# got any recomendations? — Guest 2007-08-21 20:58

i got ..........007 Casino Royale, The Departed, 300, Pirates of The Carribean Curse of The Black Pearl, National Geographic: Planet Earth ..Matrix Reloaded, TransFormers, Spider Man 1.2.3, Silent Hill, Resident Evil 1.2.3, Metal Gear Solid Movie, Halo Movie, Super Mario A$$ Rape Fantasy's, Twin Kirby's Black Hole Adventure, Pok'eMON 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8, Dude Wheres My Car, Cheech and Chong 1.2.3.4, King Kong, Zelda The Gayest She Male, Duper Metroid GunHand,

Master Cheif Lonely Homo Diaries, GODs n' Gears of War,

G.O.W,G.O.W, Kung Fu Hustle, Austin Powers 1.2.3.

all on Blue Ray

# I wanna blow up m$ — Guest 2007-08-21 21:03

Once again m$ gets by by grabbing a fist full of dollars and shoving it up peoples asses. It seems alot of people enjoy getting their asses fisted by m$, as long as a huge wad of cash, among other things, ends up in their stretched rectum.

The videogame industry seems to be enjoying it alot, and now it seems the movie industry will do the same.

# 720p is lower than 1080p, ps3 STANDARD — Guest 2007-08-21 21:32

my A$$ smells like cheese, wish money would splatter the walls of Diahreah in the Toilet...............yeah we know micrsoft

is money everything......their losing billions with this game console thing, 1.4 from Peter and some just cause theyre "Investing" it in places

whats the gain for ol' Bill? he wants to be rememberd for a glitchy virus infested blue screen windows program or a piece of crap 1 outta 3 worthless boxes Red Ring....or the heavy whack termed zune

Tha gayest thing ever is that microsoft doesnt let you put YOUR videos and pictures on the 360 and ONLY CD original music on YOUR 360.............and give you more hard drive just so you can Buy Crap That Should Be Free For A $60 Game............and also Pay To Get Theire Movies And WAIT for it to download just to get it deleted after you watch it once.................120 gigs for what?

i got my ps3 full of converted music video's , videos and pics from my cyber shot 10mp.............and 4000 songs, ad all the downloadables from the store and later ill upgrade to the 280 gig internal hard drive

while xboxer gotta pay what BILL GIVES EM' LIMIT CHOICES mine or mine, and... having to worry about your live account this and that PAYING YEARLY, MONTHLY,WEEKLY..... points and online time..........

# K — Guest 2007-08-21 21:39

I care what these people say about as much as I care what anyone from Sony Defense Force says...

# ~ — Guest 2007-08-21 22:15

Wow.. Guess you are not waiting for a cure for aids or cancer either, are you ?

# 567 — Guest 2007-08-21 22:16

Zune was a microsoft thing wasnt it ?

# gay — Guest 2007-08-21 22:47

gay

# fact — Guest 2007-08-21 23:02

hd-dvd consortium which Micro$oft is the leader.

anyways its not just M$ money that has been used to pay off these no brain movie companies its from the whole consortium. why strive selling BD movies when you can easily have 150 million bucks, easy money is efficient ain't it?

# HD DVD is far from over. — Guest 2007-08-21 23:32

You can pick a HD DVD stand alone player for $240 ($330 for 1080p). So for the same money as the nearest Blu-ray stand alone you can have between 4-8 more HD-DVDs to watch.

Blu-ray has some good movies but HD-DVDs seem to appeal to my taste more.

# too early — Guest 2007-08-22 01:29

zune did not fail it has only been out for like 8 months or so

# too early to tell — Guest 2007-08-22 01:32

its too early to tell if zune failed or not

# Get your facts right — Guest 2007-08-22 02:22

"hd-dvd consortium which Micro$oft is the leader."

Toshiba are the leaders VSG, HD-DVD is their format not Microsoft's, not Intel's, not Paramount's etc.

# Even on component cabling! — Guest 2007-08-22 02:44

The reasons they gave is because it's true -- HD-DVD is better. Period. Cheaper, faster, etc. It's been out longer and the spec is finalized. The money Toshiba gave doesn't matter, it's nothing to Paramount/Dreamworks -- it's the technology that matters and the cost to produce.

# uh — Guest 2007-08-22 02:47

Actually Toshiba is the producer of HD-DVD, not the leader.

MS is the leader.

# hmm — Guest 2007-08-22 02:52

You do know that 50 gig is bigger than 30 gig, right?

Blu-Ray 50 gig > HD-DVD 30 gig

# . — Guest 2007-08-22 02:55

You guys didn't get the message, zune failed miserably.

Majority prefer the ipod over the zune.

# Microsoft will make sure sony suffer....hahahahaha — Guest 2007-08-22 03:18

Excellent move by microsoft...This will put some sony fanboys butts on seats. Expect HD-DVD to have a big boost and soon beat blue ray. Oh yeah, it looks as though were heading that way for sure. I think the next 2 years HD-DVD will become the no.1 next gen disc and in 4 years there will be a new xbox 3 which will have a built in HD-DVD this will trually destroy blue ray.

# ^^^^^^^^ — Folding Junkie! 2007-08-22 03:48

What is it like to be so detached from reality? Do you have anything to base that opinion on at all?

# Will you guys get a clue please! — Guest 2007-08-22 04:41

Microsoft are NOT the creators, the leaders or the main force behind HD-DVD, Toshiba are! MS are just one of a number of companies backing TOSHIBA's format.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070712/hd-dvd-blu-ray-europe.htm

"The HD DVD group, led by Toshiba Corp. and backed by Microsoft Corp. and film studios including Warner Bros."

So, will you stfu now please. ;) I'm only kidding with the aggression but geez guys, why do some of you insist on making claims without ever checking the facts first?

Search the net and you will find confirmation of Toshiba and HD-DVD from countless sources, so give it a rest please. :)

# Then I hope you're caught up in your own explosion... — Guest 2007-08-22 04:43

...because this is nothing to do with Microsoft (see my posts above).

# Wow — Guest 2007-08-22 04:45

So much ignorance in just one post.

Well done. :)

# /\/\/\/\/\/\ — Guest 2007-08-22 05:06

He based his opinion on the fact its the 'dumpest' move ever... sigh .. you idiot..

Despite boby brown being a moron.. i still vote Bluray > HD DVD

# ^^^^^^^^^^ — Folding Junkie! 2007-08-22 06:02

Idiot?

Thanks for your opinion. Have a nice day.

# . — Guest 2007-08-22 08:22

And that's the reason why Blu-Ray is outselling HD-DVD 2:1.

2 to f*cking 1, do the math genius.

# painkiller — Guest 2007-08-22 10:48

wtf dude this has nothing to do with sony and ms you dumb fanboy. i love my 360 but did you ever notice anything in this article that had anything to do with microsoft and sony other than the formats that their consoles can play? dumb fanboys.

# guess this means... — RexNox 2007-08-22 11:30

No shrek for me.

# HD-DVD Cheats You. Read The Facts. — CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2007-08-22 14:39

One example is here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_high_definition_optical_disc_formats

If your smart enough to understand it. You would have to be a fool to go with HD-DVD. Blu-ray has higher bitrate, more storage and per gigabyte cost, it is cheaper.

# It's about copy protection, not bitrates — Guest 2007-08-22 15:51

The biggest reason to choose HD-DVD over Blu-Ray is Sony's insistence on protection schemes that provide no benefit, and in many cases make the end user's (i.e. paying customer's) experience hell. HD-DVD toes the line, but omits an extra layer of encryption at the hardware level.

Although Microsoft continues to support DRM, Bill Gates has openly called for an easement of DRM restrictions. As he says, DRM "just doesn't work". In fact, it drives up the cost for the end user (e.g. faster processor to handle the decryption) with no significant benefit. And in the end, the hackers win and the honest customer suffers.

As for more technical reasons to choose HD-DVD over Blu-Ray... Blu-Ray holds more data, but accomplishes this by thinning the protective coating on the disc (this is the primary reason HD-DVD can't match Blu-Ray's density... HD-DVD chose to have a thicker protective coating at the expense of lower capacity).

If you scratch an HD-DVD disc, your chance of ruining the disc is far less than the same scratch on a Blu-Ray. And with higher densities, the same scratch damages far more data than traditional DVD discs.

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/415/2

I personally refuse to support Sony in any way, but that's just my personal choice. Whether it's the 'rootkit' CD incident or the extra encryption processing required, Sony has made it clear to me that as a paying customer, I come last.

PS ~ last I heard, thanks to HDCP and the AACS system, Windows Vista was officially unable to play HD on any platform... even when the video card is HD capable, compliant, and even when the card has an HDMI out, the protection schemes downgrade the quality to non-HD resolutions. Anyone know if this is still the case?

Link:

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_nvidia_hdcp_support/page2.asp

PPS ~ I almost forgot... Sony doesn't want 'adult' movies on Blu-Ray (they made the same restriction on Betamax). Like it or not, porn is a driving force in electronic technology. The internet today wouldn't have the throughput it does if porn hadn't been the killer app for the internet.

Scream at me all you want, I'm just stating dispassionate facts. : )

Other excellent links:

An excellent article... may sound extremist at first, but every point is backed up with links to Microsoft, ATI, etc.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

http://www.1729.com/blog/LookingForAWinWin.html (humorous cartoon)

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2006/09/71738

(Microsoft patches DRM in three days... server security patches must wait for monthly 'patch tuesday')

And my favorite: Diagrams of the components that comprise Vista's DRM support... I've lost the link to the originals on Microsoft's website but the full image is legible for each. One look and you'll understand why people complain that Vista is slow.

http://www.pcstats.com/ArtVNL.cfm?articleid=1871&page=2

# Found the link — Guest 2007-08-22 16:16

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/stream/output_protect.mspx

The full-size diagrams are buried in a Word Document, that's why I couldn't find them... you can d/l the doc at the above link

# gay — Guest 2007-08-22 17:49

but yo can scratch a blur ray with steel wool and it would still work perfectly..... while a lazer scratched saints row

# ayyyyyyyyy — Guest 2007-08-23 06:09

dont you xbox fans understand! You f-u-c-k-e-r-s have to buy another system us ps3 people for another 10 years. we still have another 20 gb of memory. you can hog your 2 movies while I will enjoy tons other better movies. oh and thanks to that move there will not be any more transformers 2. I will just enjoy movies like , pirates, spiderman, and the rest of moviesThe Blu-ray Disc format offers the highest capacity of any consumer media format to date, also greatly surpassing the capacity of other media formats. Blu-ray Disc gives you the maximum storage capability of 50GB on one dual layer disc, almost 10x the standard storage capabilities of a DVD.

# IT GOES BOTH WAYS — Guest 2007-09-10 07:13

all it means is that the contract bought by bluray camp for exclusivity ran out, and paramount went with a new contract.

Don't fool your selves, bluray camp are also paying for exclusive.

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