I pointed this out in another thread, but I really, really doubt Universal will go Bluray. Universal is owned by GE, which has plenty of money and doesn't like foreign companies (like Sony) encroaching on their other markets. GE will gladly spend 10 billion to make Sony lose 1 billion, GE is bigger than Microsoft and has moire to lose if Sony wins with BluRay
so transformers is going blu-ray then? since its a spielberg film.
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No, Transformers will be a HD-DVD exclusive (at least for 18 months).
| Legend11 said: No, Transformers will be a HD-DVD exclusive (at least for 18 months). |
"And Paramount noted that no films directed by Steven Spielberg were included in the deal “
see, so it should come to Blu-ray
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Transformer was "directed" by Michael Bay, PRODUCED by Spielberg. So no, it won't be Bluray
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| Delusional said: Transformer was "directed" by Michael Bay, PRODUCED by Spielberg. So no, it won't be Bluray |
oh alright, thanks.
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Michael Bay retracted his statements about being mad at Paramount, and his threat about not directing Transformers 2. This was in no way damage control. He was in no way pressured by Paramount to retract his decision the next day. Paramount in no way threatened to give Tranformers 2 to someone else. He obviously thought HD-DVD was better for everyone, even people who owned Blu-Ray players.
/end sarcasm
Here is the article:
http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/Paramount/Michael_Bay/Michael_Bay_Retracts_Earlier_Statement_Says_He_Supports_Paramounts_Decision_to_Back_HD_DVD/884
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| eab said: I pointed this out in another thread, but I really, really doubt Universal will go Bluray. Universal is owned by GE, which has plenty of money and doesn't like foreign companies (like Sony) encroaching on their other markets. GE will gladly spend 10 billion to make Sony lose 1 billion, GE is bigger than Microsoft and has moire to lose if Sony wins with BluRay |
I didn't get it. What has GE have to do with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and what Sony has to do (that Toshiba doesn't) with GE? That sound bad business, that GE is willing to lose 10b, to make Sony lose 1b. Highly doubt that. It would make some sense, if Sony would be out of money and GE:s only competitor. It happens always, that when 2 competitors start hammering each other, third will come out and beat the shit out of both.
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I didn't get it. What has GE have to do with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and what Sony has to do (that Toshiba doesn't) with GE? That sound bad business, that GE is willing to lose 10b, to make Sony lose 1b. Highly doubt that. It would make some sense, if Sony would be out of money and GE:s only competitor. It happens always, that when 2 competitors start hammering each other, third will come out and beat the shit out of both. |
GE owns Universal studios, which last week was the only studio supporting HD. If Universal went BluRay, than HD-DVD would have lost plain and simple. As to why GE supports Toshiba instead of Sony, is Toshiba isn't trying to get into GE's global market, while Sony is.
Finally, while my "GE would give 10 bil to stop Sony from getting 1 bil" may have been a little extreme, I think the basic concept is there. Yearly, Sony pulls in a $852 million profit. GE has a $20 billion profit.
GE can't expand its market anymore, but it can certainly lose it. This is expecially true with it's industrial electronic networking division which has been fighting with Sony and Panasonic for years over contracts in Asia. Toshiba isn't in that field, thus GE has to gain from Sony losing to Toshiba, and GE may be using it's Universa; division to help in this goal
18 months...then maybe paramount will re-release everything that was HD DVD exclusive to bluray then? Awesome...
/sarcasm ends
Well, seems like the CTO of Paramount didn't think so. Otherwise, I wonder why he said "indefinite"
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136253-c,dvdtechnology/article.html
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