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The Real Reason Warner Went Blu-ray

PIttsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Don Lindich reports a dirty bit about Warner's defection to Blu-ray that we had uncovered in our own reporting of the format war at CES, and which we had confirmed through a different source (except for the payouts), though were holding close to our chest while we worked some other angles. Warner actually wanted to go HD DVD. They gave Toshiba the chance to bring another studio into the HD DVD camp before they turned Blu. Fox was lined up, and told the HD DVD camp it was going to switch to HD DVD, which would've also turned Warner exclusively HD DVD. At the last possible minute, it nixed the deal. More »

3:40 PM on Mon Jan 14 2008
By matt buchanan
69,859 views, 117 comments

Latest by n/a: Give it a rest. Don Lindich was pro HD DVD for a long time. He claimed HD DVD won when the players sold for $99 a single day at WalMart. He is just backtracking trying to make it look like it more »