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Blu-ray \ Rumor: Paramount to drop HD-DVD exclusivity
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It seams that in the wake of the huge announcement from waner Paramount has a condition to get out of its Exclusivity contract witch the HD-DVD group.
From kotaku.
"The Financial Times are reporting that part of Paramount Studio's deal with the HD-DVD camp included a get-out clause. Said clause would be triggered when and if Warner turned coat and signed with Blu-Ray. Oops. Paramount are now "poised" to do just that, leaving the vast majority of studios aligned with team Blu-Ray and HD-DVD dead in the water. Man, I hope this is true. Not because I give two hoots about either "side" in this "war", but because this fixation with two movie formats has been one of the stupidest distractions from gaming this industry has ever seen."
I’m not putting this in news as it is only speculation. But if this dose turn out to be true it really will mean the end of the format war.
kotaku.com/
23 hours ago
Central Coast (NSW)
New Line Cinema is going to follow the footsteps of Warner - it's leaving HD-DVD.
Now, when Paramount is finally giving up on HD-DVD, it will spell "DOOM" for HD-DVD.
Bluray is going to win for sure.
HD-DVD lovers can go and return their players early before it's too late!
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The war is already over and Blu Ray has won it in very convincing fashion, but if this rumor does come true, it will just be embarrassing really :|
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callan5 said: The war is already over and Blu Ray has won it in very convincing fashion, but if this rumor does come true, it will just be embarrassing really :|
Yeah, Blu-Ray has alrady won, just take a look at how much Blu-Ray is dominating.
www.mywii.com.au/
23 hours ago
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longarms, if you do a little research you will find that this happens everytime a new media format comes out. Blueray vs HD DVD is just very "loud" battle. which will be over soon enough and everyone will forget what a HD-DVD is, except for those poor people that brought the add on for the 360. But i guess if the HD-DVD drive is anything like the drive in the 360 it is prob already broken. =P
23 hours ago
melbourne, victoria
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yeh and once you take that slice of parramount out of the HD-DVD pie. it makes universal very lonly
23 hours ago
Central Coast (NSW)
Is that from Engadget HD? xD
Well HD-DVD can be the 360's "special" disk format, they can store their craps on there.
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Lol, if Paramount does jump to Blu Ray, who knows, maybe Universal will follow, the chart could be looking all blue in a years time, who knows 
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Yeah, but does that mean that the 360 is going to fail now?
23 hours ago
Melbourne, Victoria
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I suppose it depends on what the people buy the consoles for gdmatt man, i dont think Xbox 360 will fail because of this, but HD DVD will be a dead, buried and forgotten in the very near future i reckon, i struggle to find HD DVD's on store shelves now. :s
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I'm happy, I would like some great movies to come to Blu-Ray!
I'm not into this "War" thing 
23 hours ago
++[ It's not that I think I'm 2 good 4 the world, it's 2 good 4 me ]++ Sydney, Australia
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gdmatt said: Yeah, but does that mean that the 360 is going to fail now?
no 360 dosnt realy have any thing to do with HD-DVD for the most part. the 360 games dont come on HD-dvds just regualr old dvds. is will only annoy the people who bought the HD-dvd drive add-on.
23 hours ago
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callan5 said: I suppose it depends on what the people buy the consoles for gdmatt man, i dont think Xbox 360 will fail because of this, but HD DVD will be a dead, buried and forgotten in the very near future i reckon, i struggle to find HD DVD's on store shelves now. :s
Yeah i guess so, but i bet that the PS3 will have sold more than the 360 by the end of thwe year anyway
23 hours ago
Melbourne, Victoria
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I've been saying it for ages blu-ray was gonna win. I remember the discussions way back on mypsp and recently here. sucked-in to those people saying blu-ray was gonna end up the next betamax
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Doesn't Neccesarily mean the rumour is wrong just that it one source says it is, the other aposses Can anyone find a different source?
22 hours ago
++[ It's not that I think I'm 2 good 4 the world, it's 2 good 4 me ]++ Sydney, Australia
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gdmatt said: Yeah, but does that mean that the 360 is going to fail now?
most likely not. most of the 360 owners i know don't have the hd dvd player so they couldnt give to stuffs about it
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well if blu ray does win, sony will have finally won a format war, not they they deserve this one even
and why would the 360 fail because of an optional add-on, imagine if bluray won with the blu ray in the ps3 whether you like it or not
21 hours ago
Melbourne, Victoria
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Why dont they deserve to win this format "war"? I think they deserved it personally, Sony put alot of faith into the Blu Ray format, and its paid off in the end, it was a smart move, obviously more smarter than having an HD DVD as an add on..
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Why do we always refer to blu-ray as a SONY format, there are like 80 companies behind the blu-ray format, SONY is just one of them. Yes they are a major backer but not the only company involved.
20 hours ago
Melbourne, Victoria
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I hope the rumour is true, that Paramount is looking to drop HD-DVD exclusivity and join Blu-Ray.
Universal and Paramount are the only two major HD-DVD supporters left. Why would they support HD-DVD when nearly everyone else supports Blu-Ray? Wouldn't they be able to sell more copies of their movies on Blu-Ray rather than HD-DVD? If that's true, and they're still stubborn in supporting HD-DVD ... that means they'll incur financial losses!
I reckon once Universal OR Paramount joins Blu-Ray, the other one will join suit ... 
Can't wait for that to happen
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They support it because they have been paid trucks loads to support it and have signed contracts, which are not an easy thing to just break.
Paramount it seems has a get out clause written into their contract, Universal on the other hand might not have been that smart it seems.
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crazynites said: Why do we always refer to blu-ray as a SONY format, there are like 80 companies behind the blu-ray format, SONY is just one of them. Yes they are a major backer but not the only company involved.
SONY is the ONLY company making Blu-Ray players at the moment, Others will come later. But sony is the only company making them atm.
Toshiba = HD-DVD
SONY = Blu-Ray
Samsung = DVD
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ectozar said:
Paramount it seems has a get out clause written into their contract, Universal on the other hand might not have been that smart it seems.
If this is true ... if Paramount does have this get out clause in their contract ... I wonder if they'll actually use it.
Once Paramount goes blu-ray, first thing I'm gonna do is buy Transformers on BD
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