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Official announcement from Viacom. Paramount and DW are now HD DVD exclusive!
Viacom Press Release

MWAHAHAHAHAHAH! I don't actually care...it is really just another sign that it is still too soon to jump on either bandwagon. But the thought of Ascended gnashing his teeth and chocking on his own bile and frustration amuses me no end. 

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Desperation Move and Cash Grab? Or Bloodier Blu-ray/HD DVD War?

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Here's the official announcement being made later today. Note how there's no mention of the money Paramount (I'm told $50 million) and DreamWorks Animation (I'm told $100 million) is receiving for "promotional consideration" from the HD DVD side to continue with what is widely recognized as the losing high-def format. Also note that Steven Spielberg is still fence-sitting (although this fall Sony will release in Blu-ray its catalogue title Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, the first of Spielberg's pictures to do so in either format). Sources are telling me these moves are "really out of desperation" and "a callous cash grab". Hollywood is lopsided in favor of Blu-ray: until now, 7 of the 8 major movie studios (Disney, Fox, Warner, Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate and MGM) supported Blu-ray, and 5 of them (Disney, Fox, Sony, Lionsgate and MGM) release their movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format. Only Universal was exclusively HD-DVD. The $100 mil is a huge $$$ infusion for the Shrek-dependent public company DreamWorks Animation -- especially curious because, earlier this year, Jeff Katzenberg told a Bank of America conference that he expected "neither" high-def DVD format to win the war "because they're not going to become the next platform." I have more analysis below:...

Anything to keep Blu-ray from pulling the plug on HD DVD (looking at you MS)...    Isn't this what HD DVD had Blu-ray investigated from (they had no such findings BTW)?  Maybe it's time HD DVD is investigated for this one.  Blu-ray consistently outsells HD DVD 2:1 on Paramount/Dreamworks titles.  It  doesn't make business sense to drop your biggest HD money maker (Blu-ray) unless they are paid off...period.

I guess this is another example of your 'FACTS' that people can't deal with.  "I'm told" and "Sources are telling me" are the lines use by people how don't have any 'real' facts to base their article on.  Without proof, it is all propoganda...though it doesn't surprise me in the least that you have jumped on it as truth. 

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You base that on what...current DVD sales numbers?  Did you think that it could have been a lot more for some regions over others?

Did I think that DVD sales numbers could have been a lot more than what? Than they would have been if there were no way to defeat DVD region coding?

Not really, I'm a movie aficionado and if there are multiple versions of a title I want in different regions I buy the best version. If that means for example Universal US gets my money instead of Universal UK for a particular release, then so be it, they deserve it for producing a better product.

But the mass market DVD consumer doesn't even think about disc importing, and that's where almost all of a studio's sales are.

The DVD forum has realised this with their HD DVD spec, as have Warners with many of their DVD releases now being region free.

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Desperation Move and Cash Grab? Or Bloodier Blu-ray/HD DVD War?

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Here's the official announcement being made later today. Note how there's no mention of the money Paramount (I'm told $50 million) and DreamWorks Animation (I'm told $100 million) is receiving for "promotional consideration" from the HD DVD side to continue with what is widely recognized as the losing high-def format. Also note that Steven Spielberg is still fence-sitting (although this fall Sony will release in Blu-ray its catalogue title Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, the first of Spielberg's pictures to do so in either format). Sources are telling me these moves are "really out of desperation" and "a callous cash grab". Hollywood is lopsided in favor of Blu-ray: until now, 7 of the 8 major movie studios (Disney, Fox, Warner, Paramount, Sony, Lionsgate and MGM) supported Blu-ray, and 5 of them (Disney, Fox, Sony, Lionsgate and MGM) release their movies exclusively in the Blu-ray format. Only Universal was exclusively HD-DVD. The $100 mil is a huge $$$ infusion for the Shrek-dependent public company DreamWorks Animation -- especially curious because, earlier this year, Jeff Katzenberg told a Bank of America conference that he expected "neither" high-def DVD format to win the war "because they're not going to become the next platform." I have more analysis below:...

Anything to keep Blu-ray from pulling the plug on HD DVD (looking at you MS)...    Isn't this what HD DVD had Blu-ray investigated from (they had no such findings BTW)?  Maybe it's time HD DVD is investigated for this one.  Blu-ray consistently outsells HD DVD 2:1 on Paramount/Dreamworks titles.  It  doesn't make business sense to drop your biggest HD money maker (Blu-ray) unless they are paid off...period.

I guess this is another example of your 'FACTS' that people can't deal with.  "I'm told" and "Sources are telling me" are the lines use by people how don't have any 'real' facts to base their article on.  Without proof, it is all propoganda...though it doesn't surprise me in the least that you have jumped on it as truth. 

THAT is an article, NOT written by me, about something that JUST happened.  This is questionably anti-trust behavior.  Therefore, to have sources named in this (at less at the moment) would be crazy.  But, you don't see that...do you?  Did you see the question mark on the article title?

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It looks like we are heading into a SACD/DVD-A situation.  Thanks MS!  Way to try to kill HD Optical.    If you can't win, kill it.

At least, just selling to PS3 owners will be profitable in the long run...one way or another.