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Warner Bros. Announces Blu-Ray Exclusivity

by Cavin Smith on January 4, 2008 at 5:24 pm

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No longer the Switzerland of the format war, Warner Bros. has decided to throw its weight behind Sony’s hi-def disc and only Sony’s hi-def disc.

The reason for the switch is consumer confusion, which has been a concern from the start of the HD wars. Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer tells it like it is:

The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers.

And that’s some bad news for HD-DVD, whose lone stalwarts remain Toshiba, Microsoft (almost solely to take a bite out of Sony’s cross-platform marketing with the PS3), Paramount, and NBC Universal.

Powerful as those studios may be, WB controls most of the home video market with a commanding 18 to 20 percent of sales. And let’s not forget their megastar franchises: The Matrix, Harry Potter, Batman to name a few.

For those that had anticipated upcoming films, the company will continue to churn out HD-DVD releases until late May, but they’ll lag behind their DVD and Blu-ray counterparts.

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    Monarky
    on January 4, 2008 7:38 pm

    OMG!!! The world is coming to an end and HD-DVD is about to walk off the end of the earth!

    The last straw has been dropped and the bucket kicked out from under the format wars. This is definitely a SHOT that will be heard around the world with the complete drubbing HD-DVD Player sales will take after this one gets out. The Format War is all but over!

    Long Live the BluRay King! ;) …in the PS3! hehe

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    3sicasity
    on January 4, 2008 9:01 pm

    hd downloads on live > blu-ray

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    Monarky
    on January 6, 2008 1:12 am

    @3sicasity LOL …you are joking of course. Right?
    Especially since most Xbox 360 fans don’t have large enough hard drives to even take advantage of HD Downloadable Movies. For instance, “Resident Evil: Extinction” is on a 50gig BluRay disc dude! That would take 2 days to download with the bandwidths we have today. Not to mention that most Xbox 360 owners don’t have over 20gigs of hard drive space available (actually more like on average 12gigs at most).

    Top that off with the fact NONE of them (X360’s) are prepared for the Future’s Bandwidth and Internet features. You all only have 10/100 Ethernet cards. While PS3’s all come with Gigabit cards and the system is already prepared for IPv6 and Jumbogram packet sizes upto 4GiB! What is the size you have under IPv4 on Xbox 360’s? ….all of a measly 64kib and even then it needs to be stuffed through a skinny pipe to get there!

    Wiki Quote from IPv6 page:
    “IPv6 has optional support for packets over this limit, referred to as jumbograms which can be as large as 4 GiB. The use of jumbograms may improve performance over high-MTU networks.”

    Sony’s PS3’s are already certified as high-MTU network capable! They’ve been planning for user file sharing, HD movie downloads, MMO game server networks, HPC applications like F@H since design of the PS3 first began.

    Plus perhaps you aren’t aware that Sony owns half the music industry which is being made available right now to Singstar owners. You also probably don’t know that they own a lot of the studios that make the HD movies you want to watch. Let alone that now with Warner Exclusive to BluRay, 70% of HD movies will only be available on BluRay Discs!

    Ever heard of Steven Jobs? …well not only does he have the original downloadable content network service (that dwarfs everything else), he’s also not very good friends with any of Microsoft’s divisions. So anyway, along with iTunes, he is also in majority control of Disney Studios who are very good friends of BluRay and consequently the PS3!

    Now if that all didn’t poke a big enough hole in your balloon of ignorant fanboyism, I got more facts tucked away after your response! ;)

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    ash
    on January 10, 2008 8:16 pm

    its awesome that all us ps3 fanboys have so much ammunition to fire at these xbox fanboys and they get shot down so easy now lmao…

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