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  Blackfalcon | February 11, 2008
  Hehehe- U turn: Universal! Get it?
  
  Anyway, why wouldn't they support Blu Ray? It's the way to go; the future, the next big thing, etc.
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  VeGiTAX2 | February 11, 2008
  Or it's just more money for them, it doesn't benefit any company to be exclusive to just one format, if they cared about the future, the next bnig thing or whatever other buzzwords you could think of they would have dumped DVD already.
  
  The fact is, they want to scrape up money any way they possibly can, thats why even when UMD came out, the studios rushed in to get yet another source of revenue for age old movies.
  
  $$$ is what they want, they don't care about the features just as long as they have DRM so heavy you can't breathe.
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    jmac353 | February 11, 2008
    They do, however, lose money if they produce a bunch of HD-DVD movies that no one buys.
    
    Also, Netflix has gone Blu-Ray exclusive.
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      VeGiTAX2 | February 11, 2008
      Actually, they don't. Understanding units sold to retail vs units sold to consumers would inform you of that basic fact.
      
      Such reason is why companies can skew the units sold to retail vs units installed in homes.
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        jmac353 | February 11, 2008
        What I meant was that if they make a bunch of HD-DVD movies and no one buys them then the stores all stop buying them from them they are left with a bunch of worthless copies that no one wants. Money wasted on materials, factories, etc.
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        VeGiTAX2 | February 12, 2008
        Your thought is flawed, there are shelves loaded with bad movies on them, movies that failed as content. Yet the stores still supported the studios on other flops and they will continue to do so, pushing the losses off in bundle packs and exclusive offers.
        
        How does the store lose money on materials, factories and etc? Unless you're trying to say Target, Wal-Mart, Sears, Bestbuy and etc all press HD-DVD's, if so thats grossly inaccurate. Try to make sense before you assume retail chains are responsible for disc production.
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        jmac353 | February 13, 2008
        I wasn't talking about the stores, I was talking about the companies actually producing the movies. Universal and Paramount pressing a bunch of HD-DVDs only to not be bought by the stores because of them choosing to go Blu-Ray exclusive.
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  slumpy monkey | February 11, 2008
  hd-dvDEAD
  
  Poor toshiba
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  iLLmatic | February 11, 2008
  I wish they would just kill HD-DVD already. Its just not happening for the format and I'm tired of hearing about the format wars. Blu-Ray got it locked. Just fold.
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    VeGiTAX2 | February 11, 2008
    I wouldn't get comfortable then, if you can't take this then turn away from tech news since digital media delivery battles aren't falling in numbers.
    
    Exclusivity loss doesn't mean much to either camp, it just means that they get to brag about one less title being theirs. They still get the same releases though in the meantime. It's only really news if a camp breaks and completely re-tools their factory to do Blu-Ray.
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      jmac353 | February 11, 2008
      Digital Media delivery services like iTunes you mean? The HD content available on iTunes and other digital delivery services comes no where near close to the HD quality of that on Blu-Ray or even HD-DVD. While the number of movies being downloaded off iTunes and the like is higher than that of Blu-Ray or HD-DVD it's simply because there's a larger install base. Anyone with an iPod has iTunes and even people that don't use iTunes. The fact is though, that out of all the people that actually have iTunes only a small fraction of them make up these people that are actually getting this digital content which means in comparison to the install base of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players it's actually not doing better than either.
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        VeGiTAX2 | February 12, 2008
        itunes? *laugh* most people with reasonable taste in compression don't use itunes. I'm actually offended at the assumption.
        
        There are other streaming services on the rise lending the ability to view content at higher resolutions. With x.264 on the rise HD content will be arriving without so many bandwidth hitches as it previously faced.
        
        Netflix, Amazon, and others are all in the digital video systems, check into other growing services like Hulu and realize that flash based 320x240 movies are not the focus of the industry anymore.
        
        Using itunes as a base is laughable. If you plan to talk about quality then do so, don't bring laughable quality into it though. God anyone who saw AppleTV when it arrived would know better.
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        jmac353 | February 13, 2008
        Well you couldn't be more wrong because iTunes is doing fairly well numbers wise. Good call.
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      iLLmatic | February 11, 2008
      Vegita, in this type of situation, it is really news. Complete exclusivity isn't necessary, because you can only get all your other movies on Blu-Ray also. Now, with maybe only 1 or 2 studios completely HD-DVD, there's not much reason to get an HD-DVD player, because you can only watch movies from those specified studios. Its like how many people used to say the PS3 wasn't worth the money, based on the few exclusives it had, whereas you could get all of the other games on the cheaper 360.
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        VeGiTAX2 | February 12, 2008
        Actually I mean it in terms of people getting riled up for something large to suddenly happen, going multi-platform is in their best interest to sell units right now when things are in a slowing trend. Having a multi-format producer is news, but it's not epic "this is the end of days" news that people like to make it. You don't call something dead just because it shares titles with another company, just as you don't swap from one format to another because they have the same titles that you can rebuy on it.
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  Kinetic | February 11, 2008
  Great! I can't wait to get some Universal movies to play on my PS3.
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  Final Blade | February 12, 2008
  Interesting, still the format war is far from over, i said this multiple times and will continue to say it til a year or two from now.
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  Silver Mirror | February 12, 2008
  The war is over. Universal changing such a adamant stance against Blu-ray is surely a indicator of just how one sided it is. I'm surprised they didn't announce Blu-ray exclusive though. But that will probably happen sometime in the next year
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    VeGiTAX2 | February 12, 2008
    As long as there is room to milk things out they wont call exclusivity, if they have a strong selling trend with their titles then they'll most likely run it out until the end. Given that existing DVD pressing systems could be modded to support HD-DVD it might not be costing them all that much at the moment.
    
    Blu-Ray on the other hand is an entire re-tooling of their factory for the spec.