It was the time for Paramount and Universal to publish their movies on a HD disk drive and now it seems they took action. Well, now it’s obvious what formate they have chosen once with HD DVD’s death. Yes, you guessed, Blu-ray is the winner.
Craig Kornblau, Universal’s President made a statement: “While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and catalog titles on Blu-ray,” so it’s official.
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After a long dispute, HD DVD has finally lost the battle and Blu-ray is now a winner. Toshiba has just announced that ” it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” The production will stop in March 2008 and they will only going to sell HD DVD disks for players and recorders owners.
Also, Toshiba’s President and CEO, Atsutoshi Nishida stated that Toshiba is going to “continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives.”

Well another bad news for HD-DVD. Toshiba is expected to cut down this format in the coming weeks although Jodi Sally, VP of marketing for Toshiba America Consumer Products, thinks that HD DVD is the best option for consumers due to its provided quality.
According to Jodi Toshiba will watch how things go for now given the fact that HD DVD’s price decreased over the past month. Everybody seems to know what is going to happen, but it looks like HD-DVD format gets a chance for the moment.

Michael Bay is a successful film director and producer - his best movies are Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, The Rock, Bad Boys I + II and Transformers. Also, he is one of the members of Propaganda Films, a music video production company.
He presented the award for animated character in a motion picture at the Visual Effects Society’s sixth annual award show and once again he spoke out and praised Blu-ray. He wanted to remind us what’s his opinion of the war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD, “Blu-ray’s better, and I told everyone. I was very …

There was something that caught my eyes in the past days. It’s a home theater named Kipnis Studio Standard and you can get it for only $6 million. The screen is a 18 x 10 Stewart and in the back you will find a Sony ultra-high-resolution (4,096-by-2,160) SRX-S110 digital projector. It features an 8.8-channel audio system but it’s composed from many speakers and subwoofers. I should mention that the Sony projector features Blu-ray and HD-DVD players.
The price for the home theater may seem a little too big, but if you want something that nobody has and if …

Hiroyuki Shimizu, Research Analyst, states that due to Toshiba’s price-cutting the battle between HD DVD and Blu-ray will continue, but not for long. He says that this actions are useless, because they are just delaying the what seems to be inevitable. Shimizu says in Gartner’s Semiconductor DQ Monday Report that, Gartner is expecting that the battle will be won by Blu-ray by the end of 2008. Blu-ray are also backed by five of the seven major Hollywood studios, so it seems that HD DVD will lose this one.
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NPD Group is global market research company which provides information about manufacturers and retailers. According to their latest report, Blu-ray player sales increased after Warner’s announcement that they will go Blu-ray. Although, HD-DVD is less expensive than Blu-ray, in December, 60% players sold were Blu’s, in the first two weeks of January the Blu-ray had a 70% market share.
After Warner’s announcement, HD-DVD sales decreased to an unbelievable 7% rate which means Blu-ray had a 93% market share. If these media sales continue, HD-DVD manufacturers will have to take drastic measures …