anounced less than 24 hours ago,,,,,look for anorher shocker in weeks
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08-20-07: Rysa4This article refers to the press release in question as "this morning's shocking revelation," which, if you'll notice, is dated today. Plus, the article specifically mentions a reversal of policy for the format release of Blades of Glory. It also means that two of the biggest grossers this year will be released exclusively on HD DVD. Some of the HD DVDs are hybrids and can be played on both std. DVD players and HD DVD players. My Letters from Iwo Jima is this way and I've seen others. This would enable studios to support hi-def releases while having just one SKU per DVD title. Can Blu-ray do this too? If they can, so far they're not. |
This is indeed breaking news. So far this year, Blu-Ray is outselling HD-DVD 2 to 1 - so it was starting to look distinctly bad for HD-DVD; available content seemed to be more of a factor in sales than price. It may have cost $100 million to Paramount and $50 million to Dreamworks in promo deals to swing this - nevertheless a nice move from HD-DVD on the exclusive content side. (or are these high $$$ promotional deals just Blu-ray counter propaganda?). I don't know, but think about those 5 free discs with each player and you can imagine how a deal might get cut with a studio... Blu-Ray, it is your move now: figure how much this factor will change the race and act soon! May be it is time to role out a Blu-Ray promo deal with Universal...LOL! We have to laugh but some execs are probably ready to jump out a window after this latest announcement...whilst others may have just landed a big bonus! |
I bet HD sold it's soul with the 'exclusive' studio releases and is getting a much lower cut Seems HD knew it was behind and had to act desperate Maybe I'll have to get both players, damn and as for purchasing - I only own 5 discs including the 4 disc planet earth (stunning on BR) netflixs all the way for HD/BR |
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