Paramount and Dreamworks to support HD-DVD exclusively
Paramount and DreamWorks Animation Each Declare Exclusive Support for HD DVD
What a disappointment.
At first, I was completely neutral about this stupid format war. When Blu-Ray started picking up speed this year, I admittedly started leaning a bit towards the Blu camp. I had this feeling that with all the movies coming out on Blu-Ray, there was no way that HD-DVD could win.
Then comes this morning’s announcement about Paramount/Dreamworks. All this does is prolong this goddamn war. People just want high-def movies on a disc. That’s it. Why all the politics? Just give some money to everyone involved and roll in the dough.
Something that bugs me is that there are reports that Paramount was paid $50 million and Dreamworks was paid $100 million to do this (click to read). $150 million, if true, is a lot to spend on keeping a format alive.
Here’s something of interest, though. At the end of the press release is this line:
“Today’s announcement does not include films directed by Steven Spielberg as his films are not exclusive to either format.”
Does that mean that with the announcement of Close Encounters of the Third Kind coming on Blu-Ray exclusively, we can see other titles on Blu-Ray also? This whole thing makes my head spin.
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