State of High Definition: Who's Winning the Studio Support War

Now that Paramount and Dreamworks Animation have just announced to exclusively support the HD DVD format, we thought it was time to revisit the current status of studio support for both Blu-ray and HD DVD. At last check, Blu-ray had all but a few studios locked down in their camp, with HD DVD trailing far behind. Has it changed?

Hit the jump to find out.

[chasegamez]

they got paid big time
because if its not on
bluray im not buying it

[cuco33]

but think about it... HD DVD players are far significantly cheaper then BR players and based on your comments, if you have a ps3 (this is a gaming site right?) then you'ld be 'neutral' in this format war

here's the thing. toshiba's 2nd gen HD-A2 is only $200, a great HD DVD stand alone and a good DVD upconverter AND u get 5 free movies with it so why not go that route? why stick to BR based solely on brand loyalty and fanboyism?

embrace both formats people. this war is going to never end, it will end in a stalemate like dvd-a and sa-cd. 60/40 split of 5% is SH*T! there is NO dominance and the masses who matter most haven't even decided on what they want for HD movie playback.

[sticky doja]

So I added it as an image, I laughed so hard lol.

[spammy_nooo]

somebody needs to ask the president to announce that blu-ray will destroy terrorists or something. im sick of this war.

i think major news stations should air a story telling people that if they want prices to drop, they need to choose one or the other, and blu-ray is the most advanced while hd-dvd has some special features. there are just too few actual PEOPLE fueling this war for anyone to win. its like a war of words between unimaginably stubborn retards.

this is gonna take forever...might as well buy blu-ray while im at it though, every 'vote' counts i guess.

[power of Green]

I was just going to come in here and post about that pic and leave lol.

[Bloodmask]

Universal and Paramount are huge studios. Universal being one of the largest in the industry.

For format adoption it will still take a long time though. The players must reach a pricepoint bw $100 and $200. I think Toshiba is going to do just this at Christmas time.

If HDDVD players reach that pricepoint this year and with HDDVD now having more studio support things are going to be looking pretty bleak for Bluray.

Especially with Toshiba puting HDDVD drives in all their laptops next year of which they sell 9 million annually.

[Captain Tuttle]

How will this affect game releases in 2008/09?

[cdzie1]

Remember when I said HD DVD has a few "surprises" to come? I don't have inside information (I wish I did) but I knew they were going to make some noise.

The next step is $199 players and cheaper Xbox drives.

[ngoniko]

seriously... what do you get out of being a fanboy?

[xfrgtr]

"Update: Fox just called and told us that they're going to be continuing (re-continuing) their support for Blu-ray in the future."
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/...

HEHEHEHE,poor desperate hddvd fanboys

[cdzie1]

So, a studio that is already committed to Blu-ray is going to start releasing movies again?

Very small news next to 2 studios announcing they are HD DVD exclusive.

[SJL480]

ZOMG DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?

...that it still doesn't matter.

[cloud360]

if its not on
bluray im not buying it

[SubZero]

lol how can this article be taken seriously. Did you read his deductions to make the two even? " taking out the two that haven't released a Blu-ray title in months"WTF? Cracks me up lol.

[WilliamRLBaker]

the war is still on!

[Douglasp]

I can understand how some people see Blue ray as a video games thing since the only thing selling at retail is the PS3. Since stand alone blue ray players arent sellig well, some people thinking that blue ray might be something related to PS3. The everage joe goes to cotsco and sees a toshiba player for 250 right now and starts to see HD dvd on commercials. Also Blue ray has commercials but the everage person might see it as ummm blue ray oh that PS3 thing. The reason I mention is cause my dad was about to buy a HD DVD player at Costco last month and I told him to wait a while for this holiday to see how HD DVD might do.

[SubZero]

Thats a good point. The one good thing Sony has going for them though is the fact that the PS3 can carry the weight of the format until the price is reasonable for stand alone players. I have a 360 and know about 20 personally with them also, but only one with the HD DVD add on.

[shodown19]

I couldnt give a crap less who wins. All I know is that I purchased a PS3 and by default that will be my primary source of HD Movies. So yeah, Blu-Ray.

[Charlie2688]

It would be interesting if they actually measure how much does each Studio actually weight in exclusivity cuz you can not even compare Disney or Fox to The Weinstein Company or First Look Studios

[Nameless]

Movies are not taking advantage of all of Blu-Rays extra space. Games are. Just look at the Spider-Man Trilogy on Blu-Ray. Thats a 3 Disc Set & shouldnt all 3 movies easily be able to fit on one Blu-Ray Disc ? Blu-Ray is great for games but thats about it. Movies are not using Blu-Ray to its advantage & that will hurt it.

[XxZxX]

Paramount does not go HD-DVD support because HD-DVD has better standalone hardware sales. THeir sales is better in Blu-Ray. The only reason paramount switch is $150 million.

Now HD-DVD delievered a very good and critical desperation blows. It is up to how Blu-ray counter and finish this games off. One punch is all required but will Blu-ray want to deliever? it it's all up to them. Is the hare going to finish the race?? We will have to find out soon.

[Yosking]

So I'm with whatever format she represents lol
Blu-ray and ps3 rock on!!!

[Eternal E 808]

great news for HD DVD supporters like me cant wait for transformers and to all the ones trying to down play this, is just useless because this is good news for HD DVD so dont deny it also for ones that think this war dosent matter than why come in here and post something as useless as you and your sdtvs lol nah JK but yes if you haven't got an HDTV i suggest you dont speak for us because you have no idea how great it is to have an HDTV with an HD player trust me.

[sticky doja]

action sceens in King Kong and he said he has been havin wet dreams about it since. I know its sad but there truly is a huge difference between DVD and Hi Def on a good HDTV.

[Eternal E 808]

i showed my friend 300 in HD and he was beggin me to watch it again lol

[Marty8370]

MGM is a Sony studio ofcourse it supports Blu-ray. Fox distributes the movies on Blu-ray for Sony.

[Adamalicious]

This premise of this article is beyond flawed. It assumes that all studios are of equal size and therefore value. The studios owned by Disney and Sony - which are all supporting BRD exclusively - are bigger content owners than all the others combined. How can they not take that into account?!? Lunacy.

[cmrbe]

Fox by the way is my favorite movie studio.

[Shaka2K6]

' ' Thats a 3 Disc Set & shouldnt all 3 movies easily be able to fit on one Blu-Ray Disc ? Blu-Ray is great for games but thats about it. Movies are not using Blu-Ray to its advantage & that will hurt it. ' '

Did you know it takes up to 25gb alone just for two hours of True HD 1080p? what about the extras? ofcourse thats why they are all on different disks Blu-ray is huge but its beacuase true HD also takes alot of data space on a disk how about 7.1 uncompressed audio like that found in Heavenly Sword thats why Blu-ray is important for real next gen. games and true HD movies.

[360_Rules]

Triple layer HD-DVD discs hold 50gb.

[sticky doja]

Cuz I don't know anyone that does, including my local Cinema. If they do I truly wish I was as rich as them.

[360_Rules]

Love that pic. HD-DVD is gone eh! LMAO