| NJ5 said: With this price difference between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players, what are the studios waiting for to do the jump?? Is it about the DRM? If it is, that shouldn't block them either because BD+ has allegedly been broken already. Is it about the regional locking then? |
You mean take the jump to either format? Warner is the only remaining neutral studio in a position to "jump" either way.
Warner is the ultimate decider. They said this past week that the public is not deciding this war, and they are in a position where they can. They are the last neutral studio and have released almost 30% of the total HD movies on either format to-date.
They hinted that will be looking at the sales of Toshiba's standalone sales this holiday, and the overall software sales, and will make their decisio in early '08. Most are prediciting an announcement at CESin January, as that is where major HDM info is often released.
The specific mention of Toshiba's standalone player sales leads me to believe that Warner knew of the Wal-mart deal over a month ago. Most likely Toshiba was trying to use the deal as leverage to get Warner to go HD exclusive back when they convinced Paramount to as well. Warner obviously didn't take the bait.
