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Post #81190

Author
Bossk
Parent topic
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray
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Date created
10-Dec-2004, 7:00 AM
Disney has officially announced its support for BluRay. This from TheDigitalBits...

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So here's where we stand as of today:

HD-DVD Supporting Studios - Warner Bros., New Line, Paramount, Universal, HBO

Likely HD-DVD Supporters - DreamWorks (because of its ties to Universal)

Blu-ray Disc Supporting Studios - Columbia TriStar/Sony Pictures, Buena Vista (Walt Disney, Hollywood, Touchstone, Miramax and Dimension)

Likely Blu-ray Disc Supporters - MGM (soon to be owned by Sony)

Officially Undecided - 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate, Image, Anchor Bay, Criterion and many smaller distributors

Discouraged yet? Yeah, so are we. We're going to have to seriously think about how we want to respond to all this.


Unless they come out with a player that plays both BluRay and HD as well as being backward compatible with standard DVD (which TDB.com says is very likely and several companies are currently working on it), I'm riding out the storm until the industry settles on one or the other.