VP for high def marketing. it's high up. but not high enough to be under the "Executives" list on their homepage. Time warner is very very big. being a vp of marketing in a division of wb, which is a division of time warner, does not have as much power as you may think.

and the fact that he had left Toshiba, im sure it wasn't all "happy happy la la joy joy".  either they let him go (cuz he's not good enough so he would be bitter), or he left for better opportunity (because he was so good others want him badly) which means toshiba all of sudden lost one of their good men so they are bitter to have to find another to replace him.

Interesting Poll on facebook today. I hope the link is to the right one:
http://www.facebook.com/polls.php?poll_id=10459830413&ref=pns

According to facebook, among facebook users* HD-DVD is vastly preferred. In fact, the closest blu-ray gets is 10% in the 25-34 year old range. (55%/45%), and the worst is in the youngest and oldest demographics.

Even more interesting (in my opinion) is the 80% women who support HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray.

*with any statistical biases that that may entail, including but not limited to a highly college-attending or college-oriented kids, recent grads, etc.

Not a bad week or so for HD DVD, Paramount and Dreamworks go exclusive, HD DVD discs sales on Amazon overtake Blu Ray, Chinese HD DVD player is formally announced for the US market.

Warner to go exclusive next week?

A canadian company called Venture has announced that it will start selling a new chinese-made HD-DVD player by the end of the year. So, this may or may not mean a whole lot. You can buy new Toshiba players for $200, and i'm not sure if anything cheaper than that will be available to the consumer so soon, but we'll see.

Edit:  The new player is apparantly going to be priced at $150.  This is only $50 less than what players are going for right now, so some pressure is on sony to make sure that the new cheap chinese players are going to be affordable, i.e hopefully around $350 or $300.

we could be looking at quite the war

Oh we are.

Checkitout, buy a PS3 on amazon.com and get 8 freed BD movies!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_5393252_1/103-1786549-5326264?ie=UTF8&docId=1000125021&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=special-offers-2&pf_rd_r=18H2SG7XCT1RDW0RPTC5&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=305796401&pf_rd_i=B0009VXAM0

There are two new BD production lines coming to Europe

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=439

Studio Canal is now supporting Blu-RAy as well as HDDVD. Previous SC was exclusively a HDDVD supporter but the force is strong within Sony and they have decided to support both formats now.

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=443

Blu-Ray looks as if it is going to be the format that is going to dominate the IFA Consumer Electronics Tradeshow. Sun Microsystems is even coming over to give some presentations on the Blu-ray format's usage of Java.


http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=442

they should put u571 on BR