Will Paramount/Universal come to Blu-ray?

[MovieMan19]

People complaining about the Paramount payoff need to realize that Sony & the BDA started this first. Target & BJ's were both offered alot of money to double the size for their Blu-Ray sections as was Blockbuster for going Blu-Ray exclusive in most of their stores. On top of that Disney has been paying retailers a $5 bonus for just about every Disney Blu-Ray they've been selling from July through September. Payoffs are nothing new and Toshiba did what they had to do. If you're goint to complain about payoffs complain that Sony started it in the first place, which is nothing new for them.

And as for Warner going Blu-Ray exclusive, don't count on it. Warner owns patents in both DVD & HD-DVD, they get money for every disc made, whether it is a Warner disc or another studio's, it just matters that its on HD-DVD. Right now Warner is just playing neutral for a bigger pay out, most likely a larger percentage for each HD-DVD disc made. Warner knows that right now they control the format war, whichever side gets them exclusive will win. Warner also distributes Disney's movies overseas, which could cause them to want to go neutral if Warner goes exclusive. It would take some major money to make Warner give up all the royalities from HD-DVD discs. They've made billions off of DVD in the past 10 years and stand to make billions off of HD-DVD as well, and that's on top of the money they make from their actual titles on either format. People keep laughing when people ask if Sony would ever release on HD-DVD, but it's no different for HD-DVD and Warner Bros., they have a big investment in the actual HD-DVD technology just like Sony does in Blu-Ray.