Warner Home Entertainment President Kevin Tsujihara says the studio took no pay-offs to exclusively back Blu-ray.
In a post-announcement conference call, Tsujihara flatly denied rumors that studio had accepted anywhere from 250M to $500M in exchange for dropping its HD DVD format support.
According to the exec, Warner's sole motivation in dropping its HD DVD format support was to ensure growth of the "category" and the long-term health of the industry.
With the end of the Big Spring Sale and the lead-up to Easter, Amazon has axed the price of this stunning, high-performance Alienware display.
Over the last 25 years, there has been a fair few South Park games, and here GameSpew has ranked them all from best to worst.
We are going to see a lot of crap South Park products since they sold out to paramount years ago. It's their IP they can sell out, of course; it just means the quality of their show has tanked and other products as well. Nevertheless, they put on excellent musicals, but those haven't been sold to a mega corporation.
Workers at Sega of America, a division of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc., have became the first employees at a major North American video-game company to ratify a union contract, a move that may accelerate a burgeoning labor movement in an industry known for widespread instability among its work force.
The contract, ratified Tuesday, covers around 150 people across marketing and other departments at the division’s offices in Southern California. Workers will receive minimum yearly pay increases of 4% in 2024, 3% in 2025 and 2.5% in 2026 as well as a number of other benefits, Catalina Brennan-Gatica, a representative for the Communications Workers of America, said in an interview.
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This should bypass pay wall
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Worst thing that will happen is it will have a lower stock price and ceos won't get extra millions they don't really need. Other than that the company will continue on and ppl will be treated better.
This is AWESOME - Sega seems to be progressive in their new ways - big props to Sega !!!
Any studio realize that providing non-exclusive will only do more harm to blu-ray and HD-DVD. It will slow down Consumer decision to jump in HD media war. Since they already invested money on making HD media, they aren't going to throw it away and go online HD distribution which far from ready for mainstream since 768kbps is still average mainstream download speed. So they picked side and killed one is the right one to go before you lost both.
Just, not in that sense. Not bribery.
Warner probably noticed that Blu Ray players and titles are doing far better than HD-DVD ones, and decided to go Blu-Ray exclusive in order to maximize profits. Unlike Paramount, they don't need to be paid off to benefit from going exclusive.
Well, this finally a official statement... now the HD-DVD support it can STOP the whining about "Blu-Ray Camp Buy Up the exclusivity". Well, I hope Paramount chance they position over which format support soon.
i bought a ps3 for games and not even really realizing what this blu ray thing was about, but im glad its on the winning side as more ps3 will sell now and developers wont have fear about developing for the ps3 and that games will be develop for the ps3 and then ported to xbox instead of the other way around
Why would they need a payoff when its obvious that blu ray is the winner?