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Warner Blu-ray disc manufacturer ramps up production

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

March 5, 2008, 3:47 PM

Acknowledging an expected increase in Blu-ray releases, Global Digital Media Xchange said Wednesday that it had tapped Sonic's Scenarist technology to help it increase production capacity. GDMX is the authoring facility for Warner, who was the first studio to go Blu-ray exclusive after a stint of dual-format support. That switch is widely regarded as the turning point which helped Sony defeat competing format HD DVD.

With this switch by a major Hollywood disc authoring company, it can be expected that studios using GDMX's facilities -- like Warner -- will be able to increase the number of releases on the format.

This type of support is key for the overall penetration of Blu-ray as a format, even though it may be the "winner" in the next-generation format war.

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By Hollywood__

posted Mar 5, 2008 - 5:19 PM

Now that the war is over, the BD fanboys have stopped buying movies in large numbers to "boost" the Amazon sales rankings and sales have dropped.

Most of the die hard HD-DVD fans will never go Blu Ray because of bitterness and wasted money. Luckily, some of us are professionals at being wasteful and just don't give a crap.

I haven't seen a single dedicated Blu-Ray commercial since Warner took sides. Just the "Available Tuesday on DVD and Blu Ray" at the end of upcoming movie release commercials.

Say goodbye to the free BD movie giveaways as they can now do whatever they want with pricing.

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By plague201

posted Mar 5, 2008 - 6:00 PM

I've only rented movies the entire time, and bought movies on HD-DVD that are double sided. I will buy a PS3 when GT5 comes out, no sooner than that. But I probably wont touch blu-ray movies even with a PS3, unless of course star wars gets re-re-re-released.

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By SGD

posted Mar 5, 2008 - 5:19 PM

Watch the prices go up, oh yeah, they aready are.

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By Hollywood__

posted Mar 5, 2008 - 5:20 PM

Great timing, we posted at the same time with the same idea. I've noticed it too.

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By labomba

edited Mar 5, 2008 - 4:34 PM

It's not a "may", it IS the winner.

I'm just waiting for my Transformers, Matrix Trilogy, LOTR Trilogy, King Kong and The Fast and the Furious Trilogy all on BD.

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By Danno

edited Mar 6, 2008 - 1:38 PM

Keep waiting....
Let me know when you decide to hold your breath. One less Sony fanboi = better world.

I bet Matrix will be show up ON Demand before Bloray.

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By pridewalker

posted Mar 5, 2008 - 11:06 PM

I think you 'may' be the first person I've ever heard say that they're waiting for the Fast and Furious trilogy...on ANY format.

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By kashin

posted Mar 5, 2008 - 4:53 PM

"It's not a "may", it IS the winner."

Yes, it's the winner and the article doesn't imply anything otherwise. Stop trying to troll by quoting one word and taking it out of context.

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