News from HD-land: War is over, Bluray wins
When Warner Bros. (makers of the Harry Potter film series, among others) announced that it was going Blu-ray exclusive the other day many people predicted that this was the beginning of the end for HD-DVD. Now it seems that Paramount is about to activate a get-out clause in its HD-DVD exclusivity deal and switch to Bluray. Now of course this could just be dismissed as internet rumour-mongering (remember those ‘Xbox 360 with builtin HDDVD drive’ rumours? Wherefore art thou Romeo :P) if it wasn’t for a slight detail. This story comes from the Financial Times. It now seems that HD-DVD will not face a long, lingering fight against inevitable death, but instead has a date with a firing squad in the very near future. Time to start buying those Sony S300s folks!
Tags: Bluray, Computers and Internet, Financial Times, HDDVD