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format war

Stop! Why It Still Isn't Safe to Buy Blu-ray

By now you know waaaaay too much about Toshiba's format-war surrender, the death of HD DVD at the hands of the larger Blu-ray armada. You may even be eying the Blu-ray players mounted proudly in point-of-sale displays at Best Buy or Wal-Mart. Pricing hasn't come down to HD DVD player levels—and with those sinking even further, it's unlikely they ever will—but the need to get in on the action might provoke you to spend some extra dimes. All we're saying is DON'T! Not yet. If you don't know why, let us explain. More »

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11:35 AM on Thu Feb 28 2008
By Wilson Rothman
77,185 views, 121 comments

Latest by n/a: They should build a high end ps3 for people who are willing to spend the extra money on better parts, since typically a ps3 should be equivelent to a far less expensive blue ray player since it's got all those more »

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Dreamworks Still Tied to HD DVD's Corpse By Toshiba Contract

Okay, so one big studio actually hasn't made the jump to Blu yet: Dreamworks, which was paid $100 million to join HD DVD back in August. As we had pieced together in our closed-door analysis, they can't break rank until Toshiba lets them. Says Dreamworks chief: "It really is in their court at this point to really declare what the next step will be. We're poised either way to jump..." More »

12:50 PM on Wed Feb 27 2008
By matt buchanan
9,265 views, 35 comments

format war

Blu-ray Outsells HD DVD Nearly 2-to-1 in US

Home Media Research reports that from January 1 through September 30, Blu-ray sold 2.6 million discs in the US, while only 1.4 million HD DVD discs were sold. More »

9:04 AM on Wed Oct 24 2007
By Wilson Rothman
10,951 views, 60 comments

The NYT confirms the earlier rumor that the HD DVD camp paid $150 million in "Promotional consideration" to have Paramount and Dreamworks Animation go strictly HD DVD. [NYT - Thanks Dom!]

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format war

HD DVD Paid $150 million to Studios for "Promotional Consideration"

Paramount and Dreamworks went HD DVD exclusive today. Then, a Hollywood news blog reported that the HD DVD camp paid Paramount $50 million and DreamWorks Animation $100 million for "promotional consideration." We asked Paramount and the HD DVD camp about this, and received a quick albeit vague reply: "Whenever we conduct co-marketing, production deals or other agreements, we never discuss business terms." More »

5:39 PM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By Wilson Rothman
12,838 views, 40 comments

bye bye blu-ray

Paramount and DreamWorks Animation Go Exclusively HD DVD

Every time I feel ready to declare Blu-ray a winner by technical knock-out, HD DVD fights back—hard. Today Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation announced that it would be releasing movies exclusively on HD DVD, starting with Blades of Glory, Transformers and Shrek the Third. More »

12:51 PM on Mon Aug 20 2007
By Wilson Rothman
19,194 views, 73 comments

gadgets

PMA 07: HP Announces DreamColor, An Open System for Standard Colors All Over the Universe

HP's Executive VP of Imaging and Printing Vyomesh Joshi (pictured above) actually made a bit of news at PMA 07 in the midst of his flurry of desperate-sounding guff and cheerleading about getting people to print more pictures so the company could continue earning astronomical profits by price gouging the public with its worth-its-weight-in-gold printer ink. More »

9:09 AM on Fri Mar 9 2007
By Charlie White
328 views, 15 comments