Posted by GMAN on 01/05/08 21:35

In article <84qdnfNjM9wvg-LanZ2dnUVZ_qqgnZ2d@centurytel.net>, Keith <noname@nowhere.com> wrote:
>I will NEVER use Blu-Ray! Sony SUCKS! They're like the Galactic Empire
>from Star Wars!
>
>Keith

Jar Jar? Is that you?


>
>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.
>>

[Back to original message]