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Paramount poised to drop HD DVD, Dreamworks may follow

Posted on January 7th, 2008 at 22:51 EDT

In a decision that will unarguably end HD DVD’s run at an attempted war, Paramount has shown signs that they are poised to drop their HD DVD support.  Both Paramount and Dreamworks came out last summer and showed support for the HD DVD camp, however, this support is now wavering greatly with the move of Warner Bros.

Paramount is believed to have a clause in its contract with HD DVD that allows them the opportunity to shut off support of HD DVD if Warner Bros switched their allegiance to Blu-ray.   As most may know, Paramount is set up to have a huge blockbuster list of films to release in 2008.

If Paramount follows what is believed to be a support switch, it would inevitably end HD DVD’s life.  With Warner giving Blu-ray 70% of Hollywood’s output of work, the implementation of Paramount and Dreamworks library of films would push that percentage through the roof.  Right now, it is unclear if Dreamworks has the same clause written as Paramount, but the chances are likely.

CES has brought an unprecedented amount of good news for the Sony faithful on all fronts.  PSU will continue to cover this story as more news breaks on what is happening behind closed doors.

 

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posted 10:53pm EST - January 7th, 2008
1

w00t

posted 10:56pm EST - January 7th, 2008
2

the fat lady is clearing her throat as we speak. lol

posted 10:56pm EST - January 7th, 2008
3

I will so cry tears of happiness throughout my store if this happens!

posted 11:01pm EST - January 7th, 2008
4

FINALLYY! WOHOOO BABY. TIME TO WOOP UR ASE WITH HD-DVD and microsoft.

Its time for Sony to Win at least something already

posted 11:04pm EST - January 7th, 2008
5

chug chug chug chug chug! the faster the better! Goes out and buys fireworks in preparing for the party, and also buys a ton of sony stocks!

posted 11:06pm EST - January 7th, 2008
6

just make the MOVE

psn id J08hawks

posted 11:11pm EST - January 7th, 2008
7

wow.. lol hapenning so fast

posted 11:15pm EST - January 7th, 2008
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I can't wait to see what happens personally.

I have been waiting to upgrade all dvd's to a High Def. Format but i was waiting to see what happens but it is looking a lot better now.

posted 11:20pm EST - January 7th, 2008
9

oh man, it just gets better and better.  HD DVD should just give it up.........

posted 11:23pm EST - January 7th, 2008
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PSN ID: Ant-Money909... HD-DVD might as well pull out the white flag now.
posted 11:38pm EST - January 7th, 2008
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Warner i love you guys, you made the best decision ever to got blu. Also Sony really played their cards right on blu-ray. Im sure Parmount will come over, give them about a week.

One last thing. CES is really pushing blu-ray, Sony is a big help to the success of this format.

posted 11:42pm EST - January 7th, 2008
12

hahahahaha! Pwnd!

posted 11:44pm EST - January 7th, 2008
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greate news althought not so greate for those who bought a HD DVD player or that add on crap for the 360.. what a way to screw your loyal costumers, good thing im not one of them ...       

hey gadena the lady is abought to sing!!

posted 12:10am EST - January 8th, 2008
14

I feel bad for all the people who said that it was a stupid decision for the PS3 to have Bluray internally in the PS3, and then went out and bought an external HD-DVD drive.

posted 12:12am EST - January 8th, 2008
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HD-DVD should cut there losses now. Blu-Ray will win, theres no way around it.

posted 12:28am EST - January 8th, 2008
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haha, sucks for xbox 360 owners with the HD DVD crap add on. Kick them while they are down, that's the way I like it.

posted 12:37am EST - January 8th, 2008
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"Paramount/DreamWorks responded to Warner's shift to Blu-ray exclusivity today, saying that the studios have no plans to abandon the HD DVD format."

 

 

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/DreamWorks/Paramount/CES_2008/Paramount/DreamWorks:__Still_Supporting_HD_DVD_%5BUPDATED%5D/1345

 

I am a big supporter of Blu Ray but I am going to have to question this one. This is pretty much speculation without any word from a rep while Highdef actually contacted the reps on this one.

posted 12:39am EST - January 8th, 2008
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fo sho Clover,The only reason blu-ray way won like this is because of the PS3

posted 12:40am EST - January 8th, 2008
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I bet Paramount and Dreamworks knew that Warner would go with BD....I know I did. Thats just an extra 150 million in there pocket.....for nothing.

posted 12:51am EST - January 8th, 2008
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It's like the domino effect. Sony takes the cake this time around, but hats off to Toshiba as well. If it wasnt for these two, we would still be stuck with just DVD.

posted 1:29am EST - January 8th, 2008
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its over for HD DVD and microsoft
posted 1:38am EST - January 8th, 2008
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@Lp47PS3: Of course Sony was a big help, IT'S THEIR FORMAT!  Haha, can't wait for the day I will be able to watch Transformers on Blu-Ray

posted 1:45am EST - January 8th, 2008
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WTF, is it me or are all of those hd dvd die hard fans hiding? I havent heard from one in a minute, whats there main forum so I can check out whats going on overthere.

posted 2:13am EST - January 8th, 2008
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haha im so freakin happy...were almost der guyz...

posted 3:40am EST - January 8th, 2008
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Well... cool. The more Blu-ray movies the better in my books.. I'm glad I backed the winner. Good ol' PlayStation 3 aye.. and they say only 20% (or something like that) of people know they have a blu-ray player and use it lol! My ar$e.

posted 5:09am EST - January 8th, 2008
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with warner bros going bd exclusive, I think it's just a matter of time before the others follow, good bless warner bros!!!!

posted 5:27am EST - January 8th, 2008
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wow have u all noticed that ever since 2008 began things have really fired up!
posted 6:26am EST - January 8th, 2008
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[sarcasm] Good thing Microsoft is releasing a 360 with a built-in HD-DVD drive. [/sarcasm]

posted 7:10am EST - January 8th, 2008
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its almost over

posted 8:30am EST - January 8th, 2008
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this is the domino effect.. one a piece starts moving.. the rest should fall into place at a increasingly fast pace.

posted 9:30am EST - January 8th, 2008
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Wow,i just hope this is true,because if it is then WOOT WOOOT!!!!!!BLU-RAY FOR THE WIN!!!!

posted 10:42am EST - January 8th, 2008
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TRANSFORMERS on BLU-RAY!...................FINALLY!

posted 11:15am EST - January 8th, 2008
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psn id: gingo.... *to hd dvd* cheerio cheerio cheerio, cheerio cheerio cheeriooooo, HD DVD has now offically died

posted 11:15pm EST - January 8th, 2008
34

Too bad this wasn't true, it would have actually have ended this idiotic war.

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