“Now, Toshiba’s third generation 1080i-capable HD-A3 is selling for a mere $139.98 on Amazon.com. The 1080p-capable HD-A30 is not much more expensive at $179.98. For the price of an Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on, consumers can now purchase a fully-fledged set top box with 1080p support.
Amazon isn’t the only retailer with the discounted pricing, however. Tiger Direct is selling the HD-A3 for $129.99 and the HD-A30 for $179.99. There are also reports that Sam’s Club and Costco are selling the HD-A3 for as little as $128.”
Yep, HD-DVD is on it’s deathbed.
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We recently heard about and now Universal is expected to head to Blu-Ray exclusivity.
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Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD DVD after Warner Brothers’ recent backing of Sony’s Blu-ray technology, in a move that will sound the death knell of HD DVD and bring the home entertainment format war to a definitive end.
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Sony announced today at CES that this will be possible in the future.
Sony today demonstrated the next level of disc copying. At the company’s booth at CES, Sony demonstrated how you could put a Blu-ray Disc movie into a Playstation 3 and copy the film to a Playstation Portable or a Memory Stick. “This way, you can have a portable copy you can take with you,” explains David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Unfortunately it will only be supported by Blu-Ray 2.0 discs and it will have to be turned on by the studios who press the discs. Also the transfer process will decrease the resolution to shrink the file size. In any case it’s quite a cool feature I’m definitely looking forward to.
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According to , New Line has just decided to go Blu-Ray exclusive along with Warner. With this new announcement the following studios still support HD-DVD.
- Universal
- Paramount
- Image
- Rhino
- The Weinstein Company
- Bandhi
- Canal Studios
That’s a pretty rough lineup especially considering some of these studios are releasing Blu-Ray as well. Even more worrisome is that the CES 2008 HD-DVD event has just been
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This could definitely boost Playstation 3 sales in the near future.
“The window of opportunity for high-definition DVD could be missed if format confusion continues to linger. We believe that exclusively distributing in Blu-ray will further the potential for mass market success and ultimately benefit retailers, producers, and most importantly, consumers,” Warner Bros Chairman and Chief Executive Barry Meyer said in a statement.
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