Login:
Password:
Lost Password?
Print this article  |  E-mail this article  |  Comment on this article

Paramount to Support Blu-ray

By Ed Oswald, BetaNews

October 3, 2005, 12:35 PM

Paramount Home Entertainment announced late Sunday that it had decided to produce movies in the Blu-ray disc format, indicating that the studio may be considering releases of its movies in both next generation DVD formats. The studio had previously said that it would be supporting HD DVD, however Sunday's statement made no mention of the technology.

"After more detailed assessment and new data on cost, manufacturability and copy protection solutions, we have now made the decision to move ahead with the Blu-ray format," Paramount said in the statement. Representatives for HD DVD said they believe the studio still backs the technology, but they had not heard directly from Paramount and instead were basing their opinion on comments made by the studio to the press.

Add a Comment (2 Comments)

BetaNews reserves the right to remove any comment at any time for any reason. Please keep your responses appropriate and on topic. Foul language and personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Name (required):

E-mail (required):

Enter Your Comment:

By jetsetpiggy

edited Oct 3, 2005 - 7:35 PM

Consumer bewilderment?

I can already see the scene in Blockbuster - one queue of people hiring out the DVD's and another queue returning DVD's that they've inadvertently rented in the wrong format.

That is, of course, if they choose to stock/rent both formats. This will be interesting to watch.

Yay! Chaos!

Score: 0

By UnstAblE

posted Oct 4, 2005 - 2:16 AM

Yay! Chaos how fun! hehe

Score: 0

Nov 21 - 6:51 PM ET Coalition urges better laws for e-mail and cell phone privacy

Nov 21 - 6:42 PM ET How is Internet advertising faring in this bad economy?

Nov 21 - 6:15 PM ET From out of the Amazon Cloud, an AWS winner emerges

Nov 21 - 5:20 PM ET Mufin music finder enters public beta, adds widgets

Nov 21 - 5:01 PM ET Google launches its SearchWiki semantics plug-in

Nov 21 - 4:57 PM ET Asus previews a slimmer, less costly Eee PC

Nov 21 - 4:32 PM ET New Adobe Media Player ushers in AIR 1.5

Nov 21 - 2:11 PM ET AT&T to add Pantech's low-cost C630 phone to 3G lineup

Nov 21 - 1:11 PM ET iPhone gets firmware 2.2 update

Nov 21 - 11:51 AM ET The Dell surprise: Higher earnings on lower revenue