Posted: 1/8/2008 11:37:01 AM EDT
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Depending on your point of view, it is either looking bad for HD-DVD or great for Blu-ray...but I think the nails are being hammered into the HD-DVD coffin. tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/64393 Paramount Set to Drop HD DVD for Blu-ray Tue Jan 8, 2008 10:54AM EST See Comments (17) How many "death blows" will it take for Blu-ray to finally win the format war against HD DVD? I've been hearing that phrase (and writing about it) since July 2007. Well here comes another one. Following in the footsteps of Warner Brothers' abandonment of the HD DVD format, reports are surfacing that Paramount is headed to Blu-ray as well. This is huge news not just because it would leave just one major studio (Universal, plus the mini-major DreamWorks) producing HD DVD content. It would mark the first time in the high-def war that a studio has abandoned one exclusive format and switched to another. Warner was producing both HD DVD and Blu-ray discs and merely dropped the HD DVD ones. Paramount will have to switch entirely to Blu-ray, which it has not been producing up to now. According to the Financial Times, Paramount has a clause in its contract with the HD DVD camp allowing it to switch to Blu-ray in the event that Warner was to do so. And exercising that clause is what's about to happen. It's also theorized that DreamWorks will follow Paramount, since the studios are closely tied together. Nothing's been announced yet, but this should be wrapped up in fairly short order. Stay tuned. LINK: Paramount in HD DVD blow |
No, your original idea was more spot on. Thanks to Warner Brothers moving over, that now means BDA members hold 69% of the DVD market and 77% of the HD market. At the very least, Paramount's still moving over at the end of the year when their 18-month contract runs out, you can bet money on it. The war is over. The only thing Paramount defecting would have changed is it would have ended definitively this month instead of late this year. |