State of High Definition

[Rev ATARI]

Now that Paramount and Dreamworks Animation have just announced they will exclusively support the HD DVD format, we thought it was time to revisit the current status of studio support for both Blu-ray and HD DVD. At last check, Blu-ray had all but a few studios locked down in their camp, with HD DVD trailing far behind. Has it changed?
Blu-ray HD DVD
Columbia Pictures(1), MGM (1,3) Yes No
Disney Yes No
Dreamworks (4) No Yes
HBO Yes Yes
First Look Studios No Yes
Fox (3) Yes No
Image Entertainment Yes Yes
Lionsgate Yes No
Magnolia Pictures Yes Yes
New Line Cinema Yes Yes
Paramount (2) No Yes
Porn Studios (7) No (except for Vivid) Yes
Studio Canal Yes Yes
Universal Studios (5) No Yes
Warner Bros. (6) Yes Yes
The Weinstein Company/Dimension No Yes

So at our count, Blu-ray has eight studios actively supporting (taking out the two that haven't released a Blu-ray title in months), and HD DVD has 12. So HD DVD actually has more studio support at this point if you factor in the porn studios and smaller studios like HBO and First Look Studios. If you remove these two and add back in Fox and MGM (assuming they'll some day release some more titles on Blu-ray), the two formats are dead even at 10 a piece.

This is definitely a change in the previous common knowledge that Blu-ray had more studios' support. With the addition of Paramount and Dreamworks, HD DVD has more or less tied up the game in terms of what movies are available on what formats. And that, not which format has the better technical specs, is what's important to consumers in the end.

Update: Fox just called and told us that they're going to be continuing (re-continuing) their support for Blu-ray in the future.

Update 2: MGM just announced that they're also continuing support for the Blu-ray format.

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[dr_dohc]

excellent, i'm in no hurry to get a HD player yet, next year should be very interesting...muahahaha

[tha_con]

I like how they left out Sony Pictures, conveniently, yet include First Look Studios, who, IIRC, have only made one 'big' movie recently, which was the Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. I think they have what, something like a total of 6 movies under their belt?

And porn? Really? Fucking hilarious. Just a reality check for the clearly biased writer of said artilce, PORN DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER.

Porn, meet internet. Internet, meet porn. Porn home video industry = dead.

Have a nice day!

Seriously, who the fuck is so out of touch? No one. The writer clearly knows that this article is bullshit, but FUD's it to high heaven in order to 'prove' his point.