Hus, stop bumping your own thread.

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Steve Nickerson will exit Warner high-def post

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/home_entertainment/video/e3ic5e5748d210215482fe5e2abfedf8b53


A year later, with the launch of Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD, he became Warner's point man for the new formats as senior vp high-definition media. He was a regular speaker at industry trade shows and conferences and talked up the studio's dual-format approach as giving the consumer the ultimate choice and the studio a chance to maximize high-def disc revenue.

Warner becoming HD DVD exclusive confirmed

 Dream on. It costs nothing.

I have to point out that initial costs of blu-ray are higher, but not that high. Factories do cost a lot to make, and the point is long term profits.

The BD association's forum see it differently, they said that "Mr. Nickerson was an outspoken proponent of HD DVD, though Warner Brothers does release titles on both Blu-ray and HD DVD. No word on his successor, or if Warner will change it stance on high definition releases. "

Either way, I wouldn't count this as an automatic win for the HD-DVD camp just yet because if the BD people are correct, Warner might be moving to BD exclusively soon as the market is heading BD's way. 

Source:  http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=430

Yeah, this is looking like a move by Warner to BD, haha sorry to dissapoint Golvellius. Nickerson was an avid supporter of HD-DVD..........(drum roll).......because he was a VP of Video Marketing at Toshiba!!!!!!! So, Warner saw that it wouldn't do to have an HD-DVD ally taking care of what might be a move to BD. And at the very least, this makes a move to BD exclusivity look more likely than a move to HD-DVD exclusivity.

Source: http://www.toshiba.com/news/980911.htm

“DTV is the ideal way to bring widescreen programming into the mainstream,” noted Toshiba’s Vice President, Video Marketing Steve Nickerson. “To this end, with the addition of our new widescreen DTV sets, Toshiba will offer the industry’s most complete range of widescreen TVs, from 40-inch to 65-inch screen sizes.”

 And your comment isn't a spin?

uh....No?

WB announced no plan to shift exclusivity to any one format.

http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Industry_Trends/Warner/Warner_Denies_Rumors_of_Shift_in_High-Def_Strategy/896

dallas:

I would be highly surprised should Warner become BD exclusive. They have always preferred HD DVD over BD, some movies already released on HD DVD aren't even out on BD yet. (Why? Probably because the Blu-ray 1.1 profile isn't finished yet.) Also, Sony means competition. For a company as big as Warner, it might not be the smartest thing to rely too much on a competitor's technology. Despite Warner's denial, I'd expect them to become HD DVD exclusive within the next 8 months.

I think that it might happen.  If one were to switch formats, the last thing that you would want is for yourr executives to have opposing loyalties that exist outside the company that you work for.  With this guy's case, he was a previous Toshiba exec, so no matter what, he would be loyal to Toshiba.