Thursday, January 10, 2008

HD-DVD death knell gets louder

Paramount had posted a denial of the Financial Times report that I posted in my last entry, about their having an escape clause from their exclusive HD-DVD support.

Well, now Daily Variety has confirmed that an escape clause does indeed exist, and also reports that Universal has let its HD-DVD exclusivity contract lapse.

In matters such as movies, I think I'd believe Daily Variety more than Financial Times. Now if Apple throws in with Blu-Ray as is widely expected at next week's Macworld Expo, that'll just about be it. Very interesting that everyone thought the war would last through at least 2008, but now it looks like it's almost over for HD-DVD.

Blu-ray could win high-def battle (Daily Variety)

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