Posted by Keith on 01/05/08 06:07

I will NEVER use Blu-Ray! Sony SUCKS! They're like the Galactic Empire
from Star Wars!

Keith

caliman.john@gmail.com wrote:
> Just days before CES 2008, Warner Home Video has announced that they
> are going to stop supporting HD-DVD and support the Blu-Ray format
> exclusively. There are rumors that this decision was made after Sony
> paid Warner 1.8 billion dollars to sign an exclusive contract, one of
> the largest payoffs yet (the second largest being 150 million to
> Paramount and Dreamworks to go HD-DVD exclusively.)
>
> Warner's official response, however, was:
> "In response to consumer demand, Warner Bros. Entertainment will
> release its high-definition DVD titles exclusively in the Blu-ray disc
> format beginning later this year" it was announced today by Barry
> Meyer, Chairman & CEO, Warner Bros. and Kevin Tsujihara, President,
> Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group.
>
> After August 2007, Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony said that the Blu-
> Ray format was in a stalemate. "It's a difficult fight. We were trying
> to win on the merits, which we were doing for a while, until Paramount
> changed sides," Howard Stringer told the AP.
>
> Blu-Ray was winning the HD format war in North America and Asia, but
> not Europe, until the Dreamworks/Paramount buyout.
>
> Many consider this new Warner Home Video buyout to be the end of the
> format war completely.
>

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