Posted by asj on 07/19/06 15:28

LOL...what's that groaning sound you hear? It's toshiba crying as it
keeps losing money on HDDVD - aka The Living Dead format and as the
long rollout of blu-ray continues, with disney announcing its releases
in blu-ray.

HDDVD is selling at half the price of blu-ray, but there won't be any
content for it (No disney films like Pirates of the Carribbean, no sony
like spiderman, no MGM, etc) and sales are slow anyways. Plus toshiba
is making peace noises about merging the formats ;-)

Poor toshiba!

* basking in the cooler NJ weather and checking the web on opera mini
while keying nature on my trusty ol' Notes:

http://www.rimlife.net/rimlifenet/servlet/RimLifeGateKeeper?your_path=external&id=dusty_notes_usenet4

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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/9GadCP0txIUjSI/Disney-to-Support-Blu-ray-Format.xhtml

Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) is adding steam to Sony's (NYSE: SNE)
Blu-ray Disc
push with its plan to release nine films in that format.

Beginning Sept. 19, Buena Vista Home Entertainment will start
releasing
select titles, including Walt Disney Pictures' "Dinosaur" and "Eight
Below," on Blu-ray. Those two movies will feature exclusive
high-definition
short films, called Blu-Scape, which were inspired by the movies and
shot
by Louie Schwartzberg, who directed "America's Heart and Soul."
Miramax
Films' "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and "The Great Raid" also
will be
released in September.


Together, the four films mark the first wave of what BVHE says is an
ongoing release strategy to support Blu-ray.

A second wave of movies will be available on Oct. 17, including Walt
Disney
Pictures' "Glory Road" and "Haunted Mansion" -- both fe

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