Home Media Magazine: Great quotes from Warner!

[Blu Titan]

http://www.homemediamagazine.com/new...ticle_id=11449

Very good news for Blu-ray supporters!!!

[GreenMotion]

I am honestly speechless!

[Bullseye]

That is great news.

[NJMetsFan]

That article just made me a happier person.

[Razzy]

Later in the day, on the 20th Century Fox lot, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment president Mike Dunn blasted Paramount for its defection, accusing the studio of “taking the bait,” referring to a reported $50 million payout to drop its support of Blu-ray Disc and release titles exclusively in HD DVD.

Dunn also intimated that the format war is being perpetuated by Microsoft in the hopes of confusing consumers so much they don’t support either format and ultimately buy their entertainment online. He didn’t name the computer giant by name, but blasted “the orchestrated campaigns of confusion and anti-consumerism fueled by an 800-pound gorilla that would prefer to force us all into the practice of paying tolls for the right to exchange information and enjoy entertainment.”

Right on Mike!! Tell it like it is.

[erowe83]

I read the whole article and you know what stuck out to me...

SUNSHINE ON BLU!!!!!!

[aphex]

haha i don't have any idea how people can be scared about wb's support.

It sounds to me that they will becoming blu exclusive pretty damn soon here.

[Marcusarilius]

Sounds like this is the word on the street from the horse's mouth. Seriously looks as though Warner will be dropping HD DVD in the future. Great Post!!!!

[krispydude]

sounds pretty good from warner. looks like the switch will happen after the holidays if all stays the same.

[Razzy]

"There also were indications that the Blu-ray camp is done playing nice."

I like the sound of that!

[mike79]

Originally Posted by aphex

haha i don't have any idea how people can be scared about wb's support.

It sounds to me that they will becoming blu exclusive pretty damn soon here.

you still never know. Look at paramount right before they went exclusive, they said they were going to start taking advantage of blu by doing separate encodes, until it happens, I am not confident about anything with these studios.

[Bullseye]

Lets not carried away people. It is an exciting post non the less. But until i see it in writing i will be happy enough to see the status quo.

[frank_t]

oh snap! that comment from warner is very interesting indeed.

[javabear]

Ok. I'm heading on over to buy more blu-ray movies from Warner and Fox now! I've been looking forward to getting my hands on Terminator 3. I hope it is up for pre-order soon at warnerhomevideo.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

My favourite part:

Also there was Dan Silverberg, VP of high-definition media for Warner Home Video, which since Paramount’s move to the HD DVD camp is the only studio to support both next-generation formats.

That may not be for long, Silverberg said. “One thing that may be changing is our strategy,” he said. “When both formats launched and hardware prices were high, we made a decision to support both formats and let the consumer decide. But now that hardware pricing is affordable for both Blu-ray and HD DVD, it appears consumers no longer want to decide — so the notion of staying in two formats for the duration is something we are re-evaluating now that we are in the fourth quarter.”

Silverberg noted that Warner has the top-selling Blu-ray title of all time with 300 and is consistently No. 1 or No. 2 in both Blu-ray sales market share and in number of Blu-ray titles in the market.

“We can definitely talk Blu-ray,” he said. “We are committed to the format.” At the Monday morning kickoff, the featured speaker was David Berman, director of Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA), a buying consortium of 62 dealers and 800 installers with combined revenue of more than half a billion dollars a year. He said the HTSA supports Blu-ray because a member survey found 92% favoring Blu-ray over HD DVD.

[HD DX]

Fox also previewed several Blu-ray Disc titles still in development, including I, Robot, Independence Day and Sunshine, which will be released early next year and boast picture-in-picture, audio mixing and other groundbreaking interactive features.

Was the ID4 delay previously announced?

[Shin-Ra]

Great read, thanks for the link.

[jctash]

Warner is probably going to release the movies it has in production then make the switch. It makes good business considering they aren't taking a payoff and don't want to loose money on work that has already been done. The only payoff they see is the fact that they will make more money with BLU

[Teazle]

Excellent. Can't wait to read Josh's coverage tomorrow.

[aphex]

Damn somebody make a WB Bluray discs available list. I'm gonna get every possible decent one.