Bill Hunt's Two Cents posts about Paramount, Warner, etc.

[Terjyn]

Even if Warner goes HD-DVD, it still doesn't matter, Blu-Ray will outsell HD by a large margin.

HD-DVD is in a bad bind. They can not sell tons of HD-DVD players until HD-DVD wins the war. The PS3 outsells the HD-DVD adopters willing to go before the war is over. Therefore, Blu-Rays will outsell HD-DVDs and HD-DVD can not win the war.

While all the PS3 owners I know buy Blu-Rays, they do so out of convenience, not because they must have HD. As a result, studio support for HD-DVD does not matter to them. This includes me...I still happily buy DVDs when I have to.

About the only way I see that HD-DVD could win this war is if Universal, Warner, and Paramount pulled DVD support altogether, and went strictly HD-DVD.

Until that happens, they are boned, and no amount of studio buyout is going to make them sell more software, it's just going to make Blu-Ray sell less.