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National Geographic to commit to Blu-ray early?

Posted on January 27th, 2008 at 18:09 EDT

With the Warner Bros announcement in early January in regards to their switch to Blu-ray exclusively, we’ve watched each one of its entities slowly switch to the Blu-ray platform. All but two had made the switch before the June cut-off day, those two being National Geographic and the BBC. Now we’re finally down to one, potentially.

Today National Geographic released its list for upcoming titles and none appear on the HD DVD format. Instead, their one expected release, Sharkwater, was not found in the HD DVD category. The title is expected to release on 4/8 which is well before that June cutoff. This pretty much notifies the world that National Geographic has made the full switch to covering Blu-ray exclusively.

We’ll keep you posted on when BBC follows suit. After all it can’t be that far off.

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posted 6:15pm EST - January 27th, 2008
1

With Planet Earth being the only disc that sold better on HD-DVD than Blu-Ray they might wait a while longer before switching to Blu-Ray exclusive.

posted 6:16pm EST - January 27th, 2008
2

not that i watch nat'l geo. but still great news for blu ray

psn id J08hawks

posted 6:43pm EST - January 27th, 2008
3
hd dvd. its your move. what will you do now?
posted 6:44pm EST - January 27th, 2008
4
I believe Planet Earth Blu Ray surpassed the HD DVD version in sales a few months after release.
posted 7:10pm EST - January 27th, 2008
5

Fancy pants.

posted 8:10pm EST - January 27th, 2008
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the blue on planet earth went perfect with the blu on blu-rayy... sooooooo.... botom line blu's the better color and the better produce with far better support..... national g isnt retarded

posted 8:52pm EST - January 27th, 2008
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is this really news, i mean who watches national geographic anyway?
posted 9:21pm EST - January 27th, 2008
8
all this news about blueray winning the hd format war is old news..........BUT BEUTIFUL NEWS!:)
posted 9:22pm EST - January 27th, 2008
9

I love the National Geographic Channel.  Anyhow, one step closer.

posted 9:47pm EST - January 27th, 2008
10
I bougth Planet Earth on day one. HAHA.
posted 11:09pm EST - January 27th, 2008
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the hd-dvd addon isnt obsolete since its out there lol its just it doesnt do much but to upconvert regular quality dvds. But its honestly pointless why microsoft released an add on and addons never work.

posted 1:40am EST - January 28th, 2008
12

Nice I hope to see more studd from National Geographic, they are also doing Fight Science with Randy Couture.

posted 1:56am EST - January 28th, 2008
13

Wow,i didn't think so much would happen so quickly.

posted 2:06am EST - January 28th, 2008
14

Another nail in the coffin for HD-DVD...

posted 2:21am EST - January 28th, 2008
15

go go BBC, i want ma blu ray doctor who

posted 2:38am EST - January 28th, 2008
16

Who wouldn't go ahead and commit?

posted 4:08am EST - January 28th, 2008
17

There is no more room for nails in HD-DVD's cofin. Just burrie the dude and get this over...

posted 11:25am EST - January 28th, 2008
18

psn id: gingo.... we all know eventually every1 will go eclusive to blu ray just sum might before others

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