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With the announcement that Blu Ray backer Disney, has purchased Pixar Studios, the new list of studios not supporting hd dvd, would look like this.
MGM
Sony Pictures
Fox
Columbia Tri Star
Lions Gate
Miramax
Pixar
DisneyI believe this so called war will not last long and hd dvd's(Toshibas)
whole saleing of there players can not compete against this huge lack of studio support, or the fact that the PS3 will put more Blu Ray players into homes in a years times, than all other hardware manufactuers from either format combined.It looks like the studios have decided which format will win due to the tighter security measures of Blu Ray and the huge PS3 sales potential.
I would not hold my breath waiting for a universal player either because Blu Ray has zero incentive to go there.
Follow Ups:
Universal has also come out and stated they will release some Blu ray material also.
On the other hand Sam Sung has announced a universal machine with a street price of $300 to $400.
Stu
There will be no universal player from Samsung or anyone else...thats old news.
Blu Ray having eight major studios that support only Blu Ray....as well as the fact that the PS3 will put more Blu Ray players into more homes than all other players from both formats combined = no incentive from Blu Ray for a Universal player.You can pretty much stick a fork in it with M/S being the only real backer of hd dvd.
But as we have seen many times before M/S vs the world = an M/S defeat.
Toshiba would have gladly come to terms with Sony and agreed on a comprimise....without M/S being involved.
The article in this week's Newsweek claims which format wins ultimately may not matter much because everything is moving quickly to smaller physical formats playable on portable video devices. In a couple years all CD-sized DVD formats will be laser disks of the past regardless of resolution.
With progressive-scan 480p DVD players now available on sale for about $20--the price of a single recent-issue DVD movie, its tough to replace a format that virtually everyone already owns the equipment to play, or raise the price on DVD movies to cover the additional cost of a higher resolution, even if the new DVDs can still be played on the old equipment. In this world a $300 player and a pricier $30 1080p DVD is for the carriage trade, not something for the mass market, and the mass market is happy running their $20 players and cheaper, lower resolution DVD's--that still look quite good even on a wide-screen TV, thank you. So the movie industry, which lives on volume, is not going to walk away from that for sure any time soon regardless of technical issues.
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