Paramount picture group drops blu-ray

[DemonEyez]

but the thing is when people here HD DVD,they think...hey,i have DVDs,i have a HD TV..and blu ray sounds diffent,so im going with HD DVD

you would think so but blu-ray movies are out selling hd movies worldwide..
also go to dell. compaq.. hp.. nearly any comptuer site cept toshiba and "build" a pc and u can add a blu-ray burner but no HD burner.

Like i stated in an earlier post blu-ray is being highly adopted for data storage because they have a full working BD200 disc. Aka 200gb. At HD can't get their HD51 workin.. 51gb they have been trying for 2 years.

But its not about the name honestly.

VHS to DVD? they didnt go for SVHS.. or SDVHS.. super.. or super duper.. i know i made it up and it sounds stupid.. but they switched.

As for more news in regards to this btw::

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VP of marketing for waner bro's resigned last night. He was a key proponent inside warner for HD dvd and kept trying to push warner towards HD only. His resignation tho does not mean warner will go blu-ray only either. They stand firm on their TotalHD solution. Aka both systems.

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Unconfirmed but repots from china are indicating a 199$ blu-ray player to hit walmarts shelfs for the holiday season as well as indications that walmart may only stock blu-ray hardware and no HD hardware at all other than the 360 add-on.

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That walmart thing if confirmed would be the end of it honestly. Walmart/sams alone pushed vizio into the no. 1 selling lcd in the US. And vizio's PicQuality is pretty bad. But price and the fact that so many people just buy at walmart/sams did it. That would be pretty huge.

Also along with michael bay voicing his discontent over the decision sources close to steven speilberg said he is considering selling dreamworks animation studio's which he built up. Why not just leave? If SS just leaves paramount keeps the entire movie catalog. Except for those SS directed himself. If dreamworks is sold, SS keeps the entire movie catalog. Along with SS james cameron is apparently displeased as well.

Turns out this move could be a huge mistake for paramount.

In another turn, Weinstein, who brought you movies like grindhouse have showcased their next movie debut's in regular dvd and blu-ray only. Which is a switch as their previous release was in HD and regular only, not blu-ray.



Also to QD. Yeah the toshiba does a good job of upconverting. For those thinking the same thing be wary of other companies "up-converting" alot of companies use a brute force method and dont use a proper logic chipset for the conversion. Aka the toshiba one does a nice job but ones like the phillip's are just garbage.

Anywho just passing along new's being reported via various other forums if anyone's interested in this kinda thing.

[ISAtlanta300]

you would think so but blu-ray movies are out selling hd movies worldwide..
also go to dell. compaq.. hp.. nearly any comptuer site cept toshiba and "build" a pc and u can add a blu-ray burner but no HD burner.

Like i stated in an earlier post blu-ray is being highly adopted for data storage because they have a full working BD200 disc. Aka 200gb. At HD can't get their HD51 workin.. 51gb they have been trying for 2 years.

But its not about the name honestly.

VHS to DVD? they didnt go for SVHS.. or SDVHS.. super.. or super duper.. i know i made it up and it sounds stupid.. but they switched.

As for more news in regards to this btw::

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VP of marketing for waner bro's resigned last night. He was a key proponent inside warner for HD dvd and kept trying to push warner towards HD only. His resignation tho does not mean warner will go blu-ray only either. They stand firm on their TotalHD solution. Aka both systems.

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Unconfirmed but repots from china are indicating a 199$ blu-ray player to hit walmarts shelfs for the holiday season as well as indications that walmart may only stock blu-ray hardware and no HD hardware at all other than the 360 add-on.

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That walmart thing if confirmed would be the end of it honestly. Walmart/sams alone pushed vizio into the no. 1 selling lcd in the US. And vizio's PicQuality is pretty bad. But price and the fact that so many people just buy at walmart/sams did it. That would be pretty huge.

Also along with michael bay voicing his discontent over the decision sources close to steven speilberg said he is considering selling dreamworks animation studio's which he built up. Why not just leave? If SS just leaves paramount keeps the entire movie catalog. Except for those SS directed himself. If dreamworks is sold, SS keeps the entire movie catalog. Along with SS james cameron is apparently displeased as well.

Turns out this move could be a huge mistake for paramount.

In another turn, Weinstein, who brought you movies like grindhouse have showcased their next movie debut's in regular dvd and blu-ray only. Which is a switch as their previous release was in HD and regular only, not blu-ray.



Also to QD. Yeah the toshiba does a good job of upconverting. For those thinking the same thing be wary of other companies "up-converting" alot of companies use a brute force method and dont use a proper logic chipset for the conversion. Aka the toshiba one does a nice job but ones like the phillip's are just garbage.

Anywho just passing along new's being reported via various other forums if anyone's interested in this kinda thing.

Good points all. not to forget that both Target and Blockbuster are aimed to support blue ray discs exclusively.

i think it is a huge mistake on Paramount's part, in not taking into account what the CONSUMER ultimately wants. The 'pay under the table' is the final insult, but may also show that blue ray keeps trending positive agains hd-dvd, and it may have been a desperate 'push' to keep the war going and try to keep the hd-dvd ship afloat.

I guess the war will be raging on for a bit longer... sigh...

[sirkus]

you would think so but blu-ray movies are out selling hd movies worldwide..

1 out of 3 people who buy a ps3 buy it for the Blu-ray player. Main reason why the blu discs are out selling the HD's. We don't have 'HDMI In' on our receiver so we can't use the lossless 5.1 with the PS3. The Toshiba HDDVD player though, has analog out, which comes in handy. I really have no preference picture wise. Like someone said, HD is HD, is mainly just the audio tracks and if they're Uncompressed PCM tracks or not. The Blu Ray discs are bigger too so they can handle more audio, but until I can get the money up to invest in a reciever that can support HDMI in. That doesn't matter. I'll just stick with the HD-DVD's.
Paramount will soon realize that there is no sense in just making yourself exclusive to one format of the future of video. It'd be almost as if they're saying "We're going back to laser discs." They're shooting themselves in the foot.

[DemonEyez]

1 out of 3 people who buy a ps3 buy it for the Blu-ray player. Main reason why the blu discs are out selling the HD's. We don't have 'HDMI In' on our receiver so we can't use the lossless 5.1 with the PS3. The Toshiba HDDVD player though, has analog out, which comes in handy. I really have no preference picture wise. Like someone said, HD is HD, is mainly just the audio tracks and if they're Uncompressed PCM tracks or not. The Blu Ray discs are bigger too so they can handle more audio, but until I can get the money up to invest in a reciever that can support HDMI in. That doesn't matter. I'll just stick with the HD-DVD's.
Paramount will soon realize that there is no sense in just making yourself exclusive to one format of the future of video. It'd be almost as if they're saying "We're going back to laser discs." They're shooting themselves in the foot.

actually half of the bd players support lossless pcm via analog output. so if your receiver can support that via input, or dts via analog it would still work. Cept not via the ps3 of course. But i know what ya mean. Its why im selling my camcorder. Picking up a new a/v receiver with full blown hdmi 1.3 support and other goodies.