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Universal Studios "supposedly" dropped HD-DVD deal for neutrality *UPDATED* |
Listed in: PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: gaming accessories, Hollywood, Pioneer, Sony, Toshiba
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According to a report by German site Heise Online, movie production giant Universal Studios "stepped out" of their exclusive HD-DVD deal with Toshiba. This rumored information, spilled through a press conference held by Blu-Ray advocates Pioneer, also came with a mention that Universal was the last of the exclusive HD-DVD format supporters in Hollywood.
Major publishing giants Paramount and Warner also stepped down from the HD-DVD exclusive agreement with Toshiba, some time before Universal followed suit. It was publicly announced that Universal would be supporting the HD-DVD format back in January, but following this development coming from the pro-Blu-Ray camp, Universal might have chosen to stay neutral in the HD format wars.
And if this development is of any consequence, it might give Sony a level battlefield with Toshiba in vying for domination of the future HD movie format. As of publishing, Universal has yet to officially confirm or deny these claims made by Pioneer.
UPDATE: According to Engadget, Universal Studio's Craig Kornblau has stated that the rumors of Universal studios "going neutral" are "totally false." Engadget, however, feels that this may just be a ruse before the real news storm brews:
As much as we love to get the official word straight from the horses
mouth, we can't help but feel like this is like the time the head coach
was denying rumors of his star quarterback getting traded, right before
the trade goes through.
Thanks to our commenter keepUp for the tip.
Via Heise Online
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It's rare to see any commercials fro HD DVD movies while everyday I see Blu-ray disk commercials. HD DVD is lacking in studio support and will hinder the format even further.
At this point, Blu-ray will continue to hold the lead because of the better sales and better movie releases. In the beginning Blu-ray was suffering from a low amount of players and slightly better then DVD transfers. Since the move to VC-1 and MPEG-4/H.264 the Blu-ray transfers are great.
If HD DVD loses their only exclusive studio support, they should give up and make back money on developing cheap Blu-ray players. Undercutting Sony would be the real way to make up for the loses on HD DVD.
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Yeah, HD-DVD should have said "we won the format war" after selling more movies for 2 weeks like the blu ray association did.
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No matter how much you try to make Blu-Ray seem inferior and "gay", it doesnt change the fact that its winning steadily over HD-DVD. People have more incentive to buy Blu-Ray for several reasons, foremost being that they can get a Blu-Ray player for nearly a 1/3 of the cost of a conventional one. (That being the PS3).
If you want to watch HD-DVDs, you would have to buy a standalone player, or, a... standalone player, pretty much. IT was a bad move for M$ to make the HD-DVD an attachement/accessory rather than a part of the actual console. If they had done that, they might have actually had a running chance.
Also, Many more studios support Blu-Ray than HD-DVD as well, and two exclusive supporters of HD-DVD as we have seen, have now decided to record on both. They were probably payed not to go all-Blu-Ray, IMHO.
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And calling Blu-ray for Blu-gay clearly means that you don't like it because it's from Sony. Why do you even post here? Go back to the xbox 360 qj site and stop waisting our time
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Why would they lie? Face it Blu-ray is winning the format war.
Why don't you tell me what makes HD-DVD so wonderfull and Blu-ray so crap? Care to argue or what?
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They are now able to fit 25GB onto 1 layer of a blu-ray disk compared to 16GB of a HD-DVD. And HD-DVD is at the limit of the red lasers capabilities.
Another big factor is the distance the laser is from the disc, in the blu-ray drive it's much closer, there are already lots of sites showing the resilliency of blu-ray discs.
I personally have experience while playing back almost all of my scratched audio CD's, except only the very worst.
So maybe HD-DVD is as good as Blu-Ray and through multiple layers can achieve the same capacity, Blu-Ray is the future. IMHO Blu-Ray will replace everything.
I can't wait to get a blu-ray recordable drive for my comp, when they come down in price in a couple years.
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