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Add Warner to Sony, Fox, and Disney; HD DVD is in big trouble.

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oscar

In Reply to: RE: And here's WB's official press release... posted by racerguy on January 04, 2008 at 13:21:50

The pressure on Universal and Paramount will intensify to also switch and end the format war. I wonder how they will spin this at the CES Toshiba HD DVD press conference ?

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Most likely they will cancel that press conference - Ole Lund Christensen 02:44:48 01/05/08 (1)
they need time
- Yep... they cancelled a 2 hour press conference - oscar 09:03:08 01/05/08 (0)
  There's a rumor floating around that Warner was about to go HD DVD exclusive provided Fox would defect (either going neutral or HD DVD-exclusive). When Fox backed up, Warner instead decided to jump to Blu-ray in an attempt to end the format war. Toshiba might have gotten backstabbed at the last minute on this one.
  
  I'm very curious how close Fox came to defecting or how seriously they took the "offer"; especially since they are big fans of BD+ and region coding which is not available on HD DVD.

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