Breaking: Paramount/Dreamworks go HDDVD exclusive

This is all sort of like , opening chess moves of sorts. I still see HD-DVD making good moves while the Blu Ray side just spends a lot of money. I also still prefer HD-DVD hardware strongly. It just makes more sense. AS far as more shockers, when Walmart opens the Christmas season with 150 dollar HD-DVD players the whole thing is gonna move in one giant direction, as folks grab their HD-DVD players and movies as well- BlURay players are too expensive right now.

And if there are millions of owners of Chinese HD DVD players, I would suspect some percentage of them would start screaming to the suppliers to put out more HD DVD titles.

If the HD DVD customer base grows large enough, creating the demand, that should supersede questions of ownership, who pays royalties to whom, and studio alliances.

After all, even Sony eventually threw in the towel and started making VHS machines in 1989.

The requirement to make this scenario happen is that the Wal-mart HD DVD players have to work well and reliably.

Again, HD DVD also has the advantage of making hybrid disks, so one SKU covers both the standard and hi-def markets.

fatparrott is correct....follow the porn sales today, to see where the industry goes tomorrow.