If the rumor is true...

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Originally Posted by brett_day

then the same can be said for all other companies that chose to jump on the hd dvd bandwagon. why would the other companies who rely on hard media sales (like dvds) join the group with the all powerful microsoft if they thought all ms wanted to do was kill off physical media?

what other companies really jumped on the HD DVD bandwagon other than Toshiba?

Universal has always been close to MS.

Paramount/Dreamworks was paid big bucks.

other than that RCA dropped support after G1, Onkyo who hardly supported HD DVD, and venturer who probably got a lot of help from Toshiba.

WB had royalties in HD DVD, but they led to HD DVD to its death, because they had royalties in blu-ray too and knew that two formats wasn't a viable solution.

Everybody else was in the blu-ray camp.

Nobody besides MS and Toshiba ever really helped HD DVD that much or was a strong backer of the format.