Blu Ray Wins Another Round

Posted on 04. Jan, 2008 by LeoFerus Tag: Blu Ray News

The long awaited death of HD DVD came one step closer today as Warner Home Video announced today that they will now exclusively publish movies in the Blu-Ray format.

Up til now, Warner Brothers had published movies in regular, HD DVD and Blu-Ray format. As of this summer, movies will only be published in normal and Blu-Ray format. Paramount was the other studio which had previously released movies in all three formats. However, they recently (foolishly) decided to only release in regular and HD DVD format.

And just so we have something to crow about, HD DVD standalone players have actually outsold Blu-Ray standalone players. However, due to the obvious intellectual superiority of PS3 owners (and the Blu-Ray drives we received with our systems), Blu-Ray appears to be winning the format war. Don't worry, though, the HD-DVD owners can remind themselves that just like Betamax purchasers, 8 Track devotees, and people who actually thought Paris Hilton would go on a humanitarian trip to Africa, a sucker is truly born every minute.

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Intel-Qube (not verified)
Tue, 2008-07-29 18:24

Now all they need to do is reduce the cost of BD drives, read-only and burners

Cody (not verified)
Wed, 2008-01-09 19:59

>:)

Hell yeah.

Ad (not verified)
Tue, 2008-01-08 01:44

Which format comes out with a Recorder will win I think...

Luke (not verified)
Mon, 2008-01-07 15:16

@ IBandy

The "black bars" allow you to view the movie in it's original aspect ratio, I prefer it actually and it is part of the whole purpose of HD displays. Watch the movie not the bars and they will disappear from your vision. If you really can't handle it you should be able to zoom with your TV controls. You will loose a substantial amount of the left and right portions of the frame but you won't have the "bars".

@ Gamoc

Not sure if your kidding or not ... BUT

Paramount/DreamWorks/Viacom = Star Trek, Shrek, Transformers, BraveHeart, HotRod, Jackass, Apocalypse Now, 48 Hrs, Bev. Hills Cop, Esacape from L.A., Indiana Jones, Jack Ryan series (Harrison Ford), Tomb Raider, Mission Impossible, Saving Private Ryan, Serpico, Presidio, Naked Gun Series etc etc etc

TV = CSI, Amazing Race, Survivor, Cheers, Frasier, PBS home videos, etc.

They NEED to go Blu !

Cheers,
Luke

Daniel (not verified)
Sun, 2008-01-06 12:04

Wow, looks like sony finally created a winner. Unlike their previous Betamax and Minidisc flops.

Devilmaycry4 (not verified)
Sun, 2008-01-06 10:20

Yea.Soon hd dvd is in history book y can read it .By nero

Bunty (not verified)
Sat, 2008-01-05 19:13

Whats i do woung with y

IBandy (not verified)
Sat, 2008-01-05 10:34

Now they just have to give you an option to get rid of the black bars around the picture! Great news tho, Blu-Ray is the way of the future.

Gamoc (not verified)
Sat, 2008-01-05 07:51

Oh good.

Paramount? I've don't recall seeing a film that said paramount before it...

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