Paramount and Dreamworks go HD DVD exlcusive.

WHY!? Are they dumb, everyone else is leaning towards BluRay and they just had to go against the grain. They' re such assholes.

It looks like BluRay won' t get Transformers or Shrek 3. Damn, I really wanted Transformers in HD. I was going to buy a PS3 for it' s BluRay capabilities but now...ah fuck it. I' ll still get a PS3, but I' ll get a get a BluRay/HD DVD rom drive for my PC too I guess. Transformers is going to be one expensive movie.

http://www.dailytech.com/Paramount+and+DreamWorks+Go+HD+DVD+Exclusive/article8515.htm

Or you could wait, Paramount got a big wad of cash to turn over to HdDvd, once that time period or whatever is over, they will end up back on bluray.

For some reason Spelibergs movies dont apply, because he owns the linences to them?

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

You' re probably right, maybe it' s a temporary exclusivity.

It' s called competition. Deal.

So basically anything Sony touches will almost certainly not remain exclusive?
J/K calm down.

Anyways it shouldn' t be to big of an impact. Being that the majority of love is still on the Blu-Ray side of things. An impact yes, but only if other studios start following.

Who knows, who cares. People need to stop jumping the gun and trying to tell everyone who the winner is. We got many more years to go before it' s ever really conclusive.

Yay, I am a little HD DVD fan and this news make me happy. It means my 179€ I spend on the HD DVD drive won' t count as a waste, at least for another few years because now those two formats are almost on par when it comes to Hollywood support. I can see the tide changing a bit in HD DVD favour now, though I doubt they' ll get support from the other exclusive studios. They' ll just maybe manage to divide the market share 40/60 between them and BluRay, compared to aprox. 30/70 right now.

I hope that in the future we can just rip the content of HD-DVD' s and burn it on our own Blu-ray disks and vice versa.
Will that be possible? I mean I know there' s lots of security stuff nowadays but eventually people find a way right?

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blu ray buners already exist so the answer is yes.

What I really want on Blu ray though is like a complete series of something [take 24] 3-4 seasons on one blu ray in standard def.

That will never legaly happen though. Illegaly....

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Why would you want a standard definition version of a high definition TV show?

well its not the fact I want high def, I am not buying the bluray just to see some pretty images, I buy it to watch the show. Becuase of blurays space it could holds seasons of standard def programming, sure it wouldnt be as good as the high def version but can you argue when your getting 3-4 seasons with dvd quailty?

Course people would expect blu ray to actomaticly have High def content.

I dunno, I always thought it would be neat.

Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

Some good news to come out of all of this: Michael Bay is upset at Paramount' s decision to go HD-DVD only, so he refuses to make Transformers 2. They might actually get someone with at least a small amount of talent to direct it instead!!!! This is very good news! Too bad Michael Bay wasn' t disappointed enough to commit suicide, though.

" Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three blu-ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted - nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you - I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.

As a director, I' m all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.

So today I saw 300 on HD, it rocks!

So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!"

Michael Bay


lol It looks like they gave him a slice of the pie.

He' s Michael Bay. He doesn' t deserve pie.

Actually I thought The Rock wasn' t such a bad movie and it' s by Michael Bay. It' s over 10 years old by now, though.

I don' t even follow directors. All I know is that Transformers is a movie I want to own in HD.

These are tow huge giants who prob believe that there is no need to move to BluRay just yet.
Not much pple are jumping on Sony' s band wagon.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.