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Warner and Universal are expected to follow suit.
[URL]http://www.blu-ray.com[/URL]
There's also an article there reporting that almost every major PC player is supporting Blu-Ray over HD-DVD.
Could HD-DVD be dead before it's even launched? According to the report on VideoBusiness.com...
"Several execs in each camp believe the Paramount announcement to publish in both formats - which is the direction Warner has been leaning for the past week or two with a similar announcement expected this week - is simply a temporary face-saving strategy and that ultimately all studios will shift completely over to Blu-ray by launch time."
Apparently even Microsoft won't commit to using HD-DVD in future Xbox 360's.
Warner and Universal are expected to follow suit.
[URL]http://www.blu-ray.com[/URL]
There's also an article there reporting that almost every major PC player is supporting Blu-Ray over HD-DVD.
Could HD-DVD be dead before it's even launched? According to the report on VideoBusiness.com...
"Several execs in each camp believe the Paramount announcement to publish in both formats - which is the direction Warner has been leaning for the past week or two with a similar announcement expected this week - is simply a temporary face-saving strategy and that ultimately all studios will shift completely over to Blu-ray by launch time."
Apparently even Microsoft won't commit to using HD-DVD in future Xbox 360's.
So, whether PC manufacturers like it or not, if they want to use integrated Intel chipsets in their cheap systems they may be shoe-horned into HD-DVD.
There's a post with a link to an article with the reasons why MS said Blu-Ray was rubbish in the Xbox forum, but anyone would hardly expect them to openly support Sony technology.
> There's a post with a link to an article with the reasons why MS said
> Blu-Ray was rubbish in the Xbox forum, but anyone would hardly expect
> them to openly support Sony technology.
I haven't seen it yet, but would that be the article that this is in response to? (From prnewswire,com)
"PALO ALTO, Calif. and AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Worldwide
computer leaders and Blu-ray Disc Association members, Dell, and Hewlett
Packard, today addressed the inaccurate information cited by Microsoft and
Intel regarding the Blu-ray Disc format."
Genuine question... I don't know.
Indeed there are some issues:
"The company said Blu-ray has yet to answer important questions about copyright protection; open licensing in general and easily programmable and low-cost licensing of enhanced interactive features; whether Blu-ray's maximum capacity disc will be ready for replicators to produce by 2006; and Blu-ray's ability to offer discs featuring movies in both Blu-ray and current DVD formats for play on multiple machines owned by consumers."
But given the major companies behind the format (it's not just Sony - there are nine major players involved), I can't see those issues being unresolved.
> I wouldn't expect such a postive spin from blu-ray.com...
The report isn't actually on Blu-Ray.com - it's on VideoBusiness.com
> Which is linked to from blu-ray.com who must choose their links with
> an immense amount of impartiality.
Okay, try this one: [URL]http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20051003_131537.html[/URL]