Warner Bros. Announces Exclusive Suport of Blue Ray.

[LordTheNightKnight]

makingmusic476 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Warner: New Line, HBO Not Covered By Blu-ray Announcement

Fri Jan 04, 2008 at 08:35 PM ET

Though it's widely expected that Warner Bros. subsidiaries New Line and HBO will follow Warner Home Entertainment to Blu-ray exclusivity, for the moment they remain format-agnostic.

That's according to Warner Home Entertainment President Kevin Tsujihara, who said that the studio's announcement that it would drop HD DVD support does not extend to titles released by New Line, HBO or the BBC (which Warner distributes here in the US).

"They'll be making whatever decision they're going to make," said Tsujihara. "I assume they'll let people know very quickly, but they are not covered by this initial announcement."

Tsujihara's comments came in a post-announcement conference call with various members of the media, including High-Def Digest.

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And the circle-jerking just keeps on coming.

 

Yet this does mean a LotR trilogy is still likely on both formats.

I have a feeling that both HBO and New Line are going exclusive, but that the president of Warner Bros. Home Video (not the president of Time Warner, the company) has no authority to announce such a move.

NL/HBO has followed Warner'slead in every aspect of this war so far, and I don't see why that would change now.

Also, VideoBusiness is reporting that...

Warner will be joining other BD-exclusive suppliers Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Walt Disney Home Entertainment, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Lionsgate. Time Warner divisions New Line Home Entertainment and HBO Video are also included in the move to Blu-ray.

And Maxpower from Blu-Ray.com is saying that....

Dofflan said:

Will New Line and HBO drop HD DVD support as well?

Yes.

This is across Time Warner, not just WB. All of TW's studios will be be Blu exclusive by May or sooner.

I think New Line and HBO will make their announcements soon enough (or Time Warner will do it for them), and I'm still holding out for a Blu-Ray specific encode for LotR. :D

They may, but those links look like people misreading the press release, which is what the article I linked was correcting.