Paramount's going HD-DVD Exclusive

[Reckoner]

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Who said HD-DVD was a dead format again?


Exclusivity will begin with Transformers and Shrek the 3rd

WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!


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[destrekor]

i don't know how Paramount could have made this happen... I mean, all of their movies fare much better on BD than HD-DVD... who thinks there was some money transfers for this exclusivity?
there goes Transformers, and ID4 when it releases.

I hope something changes about this arrangement.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Microsoft and Toshiba must have paid a lot of cash for this given that blu-ray is outselling HD-DVD 2-to-1 and has been all year.

Universal is currently the only major HD-DVD only studio and they admit to being under pressure from their corporate parent to give up the exclusive payments and offer blu-ray.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Thanks Paramount. For a second there, I was thinking the format war would end early.:roll:

 

[adairusmc]

Outstanding! Hopefully more studio's will follow their example.

It brings warm feelings to my heart that transformers will not being coming to Blue-Ray.

 

[Reckoner]

There's gonna be a LOT of pissed off parents when they can't get shrek 3 for their shiny new blu-ray player

 

[vi edit]

Wow. Transformers is a huge title for the home theatre market.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of PS3 owners suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

 

[Queasy]

Can we take the HD DVD/Blu-Ray flame war back to the A/V Forum...where it belongs?

 

[D1gger]

I'm still not buying a new player until we see a winner in this pissing contest. It just makes no sense to have competing standards.

 

[Pantoot]

Originally posted by: KnightBreed
Thanks Paramount. For a second there, I was thinking the format war would end early.:roll:

Agreed.
HOORAY! People will not be able to watch the movies that they want and the kids will be sad.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: D1gger
I'm still not buying a new player until we see a winner in this pissing contest. It just makes no sense to have competing standards.

I'm not budging until there is a relatively inexpensive dual format player available.

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: Pantoot

Originally posted by: KnightBreed
Thanks Paramount. For a second there, I was thinking the format war would end early.:roll:

Agreed.
HOORAY! People will not be able to watch the movies that they want and the kids will be sad.

Those blue-ray people will still be able to watch the movies - on HD-DVD. I guess they will just have to get a new player....

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Queasy
Can we take the HD DVD/Blu-Ray flame war back to the A/V Forum...where it belongs?

:thumbsup:

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
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Who said HD-DVD was a dead format again?


Exclusivity will begin with Transformers and Shrek the 3rd

WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!


Another Article

I believe toms hardware is claiming HD is dead. But if that happens I'll stop with movies, I refuse to buy sony crap

 

[Deeko]

Originally posted by: Pantoot

Originally posted by: KnightBreed
Thanks Paramount. For a second there, I was thinking the format war would end early.:roll:

Agreed.
HOORAY! People will not be able to watch the movies that they want and the kids will be sad.

yea really. why is exclusivity a good thing again?

 

[Sphexi]

Just wait, soon Walmart will be selling $150 HD-DVD players. It's bound to happen, once that goes through people will snap them up like crazy, and Sony can go back to losing money.

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Pantoot

Originally posted by: KnightBreed
Thanks Paramount. For a second there, I was thinking the format war would end early.:roll:

Agreed.
HOORAY! People will not be able to watch the movies that they want and the kids will be sad.

yea really. why is exclusivity a good thing again?

It isn't, but this is another area where HD-DVD has an advantage. Since HD-DVD players are region-free, even if something is exlusive to Blu-Ray in the states, you can usually import it from overseas, albeit at a greater cost.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Deeko

Originally posted by: Pantoot

Originally posted by: KnightBreed
Thanks Paramount. For a second there, I was thinking the format war would end early.:roll:

Agreed.
HOORAY! People will not be able to watch the movies that they want and the kids will be sad.

yea really. why is exclusivity a good thing again?

It's good if you want that format to "win."

I asked in a previous thread why people want HD-DVD to win so badly considering that the two formats are very similar with the exception that Blu-Ray has higher capacity. I don't recall all of the answers I got... cost was one of them, although I think they'd both level off at the same cost after the early adopter phase. I think there was something about DRM and/or region coding too... and Sony hate of course.

 

[Xavier434]

I haven't been following this format war because I hate these things, but I am guessing that HD will win simply because Microsoft has so much money and power to shift the market a certain direction. The difference in sales between the 360 and PS3 alone will make a big difference here.

 

[Tarrant64]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Queasy
Can we take the HD DVD/Blu-Ray flame war back to the A/V Forum...where it belongs?

:thumbsup:

Sure, the thread can be moved, but honestly there is no real flaming going on in here. Everyone seems to be pretty open in this thread.


I too, would like to see how Paramount plans to pull this one off.

 

[herkulease]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I haven't been following this format war because I hate these things, but I am guessing that HD will win simply because Microsoft has so much money and power to shift the market a certain direction. The difference in sales between the 360 and PS3 alone will make a big difference here.

It would make a difference if all 360s included a hd-dvd drive. But its only an add on and I'm guessing less than 10% of all 360 owners bought one.

 

[Deeko]

What I think is funny about this is it really highlights the "geek hate" shift. It used to be "cool" to hate Microsoft. Now its "cool" to hate Sony.

Xavier434, I think Sony has a lil bit of money too.

I don't see why a format has to win. Competition drives down prices and drives up innovation.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: herkulease

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I haven't been following this format war because I hate these things, but I am guessing that HD will win simply because Microsoft has so much money and power to shift the market a certain direction. The difference in sales between the 360 and PS3 alone will make a big difference here.

It would make a difference if all 360s included a hd-dvd drive. But its only an add on and I'm guessing less than 10% of all 360 owners bought one.

But it's an add-on that you can find on ebay for $150.00 and with a few minutes and some Googling, find drivers that'll get it working on your desktop/laptop as an HD-DVD player. Cheapest HD drive available right now.

 

[Yongsta]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I haven't been following this format war because I hate these things, but I am guessing that HD will win simply because Microsoft has so much money and power to shift the market a certain direction. The difference in sales between the 360 and PS3 alone will make a big difference here.

I don't think Microsoft cares that much about HD-DVD, I mean it's a format created by Toshiba and Microsoft doesn't own it. They just have an add-on HD-DVD player for the 360 and sold a couple hundred thousand players.

Originally posted by: Deeko
What I think is funny about this is it really highlights the "geek hate" shift. It used to be "cool" to hate Microsoft. Now its "cool" to hate Sony.

Xavier434, I think Sony has a lil bit of money too.

I don't see why a format has to win. Competition drives down prices and drives up innovation.

Well it still is cool to hate Microsoft (Zune, Vista OS compared to apple products Ipod / os x). I just find the whole thing funny.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Xavier434
I haven't been following this format war because I hate these things, but I am guessing that HD will win simply because Microsoft has so much money and power to shift the market a certain direction. The difference in sales between the 360 and PS3 alone will make a big difference here.

If that were true, then BD wouldn't be outselling HD-DVD like it is. People really aren't buying the HD-DVD add-on....largely because they don't want to sink in another $180 on their initial system purchase when there's no clear winner, thus no guarantee of future support/releases.