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makingmusic476 on 17 January 2008
TheBigFatJ said:
akuma587 said:
Disney is more Blu than Sony. They even had a nationwide marketing campaign that went to malls and everything touting the advantages of Blu-Ray and they have continually reaffirmed their commitment to the format.

Many online hi-def reviews sites ranked them as one of the most prolific and high-quality of all the studios as well. Therefore, I doubt this rumor, since they seem very committed.

Sony most likely provides marketing money for marketing their BD movies. Sony is the company that stands to gain the most from BD sales. Disney and the other studios simply want to sell more home videos. They don't care what format.

Providing marketing money is a common practice. It's a way for Sony to market BD through a third party, making it sound like the same message coming from another source. Intel and Dell have similar deals: Intel provides marketing money Dell can use to market Intel's processors in Dell computers.


Actually the Disney Tour was done in cooperation with Panasonic.

Contrary to popular belief, Sony is not the biggest player in the Blu-Ray camp. Matsushita (owns Panasonic) holds more patents in Blu-Ray tech than Sony or any other company, and has the most to gain from an eventual Blu victory, because of royalties.

That's what people didn't understand. It wasn't Sony vs Toshiba, or Sony vs Toshiba + Microsoft. It was Matsushita and Sony, two Japanese elctronic giants, plus many other companies like Philips, Sharp, etc., all vs Toshiba. It was one CE taking on every other CE out there.



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tokilamockingbrd on 17 January 2008

maybe they realize how fake that BR makes their movies look... seriously, I was watching Pirates 3 in BestB and It was so clear it made the movie look fake... In order to stop this the production cost on movie will soar... I went and bought the movie on DVD when I saw how bad it looked...



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finalsquall on 17 January 2008

You Shouldn't listen to the advice given from janitors who work at Disney. J/ks But I doubt it's true. It would'nt make business sense if Blu Ray is leading. Why not go HD DVD. Eventually DVD's will be replaced.... oneday!



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ChronotriggerJM on 17 January 2008
Gnizmo said:
ChronotriggerJM said:
TheBigFatJ said:
carlos710 said:
why would they drop their BR support now that BR looks like the clear winner?

DVD outsold BR nearly 200:1 last year. DVD is the format winner.

The other thing to consider is that BD players also play DVDs. So you have 100% of your market if you sell DVDs only and it costs you nothing extra. Rather than selling BDs to about one percent of your market and DVDs to 99%, you sell DVDs to all of those people (since few people will buy a movie just because is BD).


DVD isn't a format winner. It's a separate format on it's own. DVD isn't a high def experience. Hell most of the TV's in the world can't even display them properly. I don't see Disney backing out until they make their money back from whatever delopement cost's they initially put in. It's not like blu-ray is losing anyone money. Each player sold is profitable, and every disk sold is the same.


The only thing in this thread more ludicrous than the OP claim is yours. DVD and Blu-ray are absolutely competing against each other. If you have a movie on blu-ray, are you going to buy it on DVD because it is "a different experience?" If blu-ray takes off, then DVD will die. If DVD retains the 99% of the market it has with no signs of losing any ground to blu-ray, blu-ray will die. They are directly competing formats.


 HUH?!? I don't consider "upgrading through time" to be competition I'm sorry, when some 70% <- (made up number) of households don't even support the product your offereing, I fail to see that as direct competition, right now the competition was between HD-DVD and Blu-ray as a "Standard format" for High Def movies. It's a transiition for sure, but I don't see warner pushing out Blu-ray and DVD versions of a movie and hoping Blu-ray outsells its DVD counterpart. They want both to sell. It's offering movies in standard definition AND high definition, not one or the other -_- When the technology becomes more wide-spread, DVD will "phase out", just like VHS and DVD, DVD was the niche market at first, then as it became the standard VHS was phased out. So consider it what you will, I personally don't see it as a competition -_-



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Jigglypuff on 17 January 2008

why are you guys calling this a rumour? that would suggest it has an element of truth...the OP just pulled this out of thin air.



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cool48 on 17 January 2008

I still can't see this happening, I don't think that would be very smart of their part.



HappySqurriel on 17 January 2008

I could understand Disney deciding to not release any of their classic animated movies to Blu-Ray until the market was more mature, or possibly to stop releasing classic movies of any type until later, but I would doubt they would stop releasing new movies.

The reason for this is simple, the "Disney Vault" is a gimmick designed to force collectors to rush out and replace their existing copy of a movie with a shiny new copy, because the new copy will only be available for a limited time. This strategy will not work well unless most people they are attempting to sell a movie to have the hardware to play the movie.



ssj12 on 17 January 2008
HappySqurriel said:

I could understand Disney deciding to not release any of their classic animated movies to Blu-Ray until the market was more mature, or possibly to stop releasing classic movies of any type until later, but I would doubt they would stop releasing new movies.

The reason for this is simple, the "Disney Vault" is a gimmick designed to force collectors to rush out and replace their existing copy of a movie with a shiny new copy, because the new copy will only be available for a limited time. This strategy will not work well unless most people they are attempting to sell a movie to have the hardware to play the movie.


 well at least they are releasing sleeping beauty onto blu-ray. That will help move collectors to the format. 



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darendt on 17 January 2008

ROFLMFAO. Sony has a better chance of getting Mario on there console than this happening.



PooperScooper on 17 January 2008

I think this is total crap.

BTW REVENUE = 169mil Blu-ray - 103mil HDDVD for Warner.