Paramount stinks like Barry Bonds' gym shorts!

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=412&filter=rating30

Despite selling more movies on the Blu-ray format, Paramount has announced today that they will begin supporting HD DVD exclusively. This move, rumored to be driven by a $150M exclusivity deal with the HD DVD group, comes after Paramount began favoring Blu-ray releases with higher quality video encodings and more HD features. The deal covers all of Paramount's properties excluding those directed by Steven Spielberg.

Paramount, you suck! I loved the Transformers movie! I saw it in theaters 3 times and I bought a bunch of action figures for it, and now Paramount is telling me that I can't watch it in HD just because To$hiba payed them 150 million greenbacks. What a bunch of rot! I am not going to buy Transformers in any format other than Blu-Ray, and Paramount is cutting themselves out of the largest HD market in existance just because of a stupid bribe! They've shot themselves in the foot today, and I hope they suffer for it until they are willing to atone for their mistake! :evil:

It would when HD movie sales are still fairly small scale. Paramount did this for the short term monetary gain, and they don't really care about what happens in the future. I recall one of their big wigs once saying that he doesn't believe either format will succeed DVD, so without Paramount's bribe, they were more or less apathetic about the whole format war. But once bribery is involved, then they suddenly gain enthusiasm (for the wrong team, I might add). :evil:

I just hope that this deal between Paramount and To$hiba doesn't prevent Paramount from releasing BR movies in the future, when HD-DVD is REALLY washed up. And I NEED my Transformers Blu-Ray, like NOW, DARNIT! :cry:

Happy Feet sold 4 million copies on standard DVD in one week. The combined sales of ALL HD-DVD and BR-DVD titles have yet to surpass that.

The format war will go on for years.

"To$hiba"? :lol:
This just looks like HD DVD will have the higher quality titles.

I'm just wondering what Warner Bros. will do.

"To$hiba"? :lol:
This just looks like HD DVD will have the higher quality titles.

I'm just wondering what Warner Bros. will do.

EmilioDigsIt

Blu-Ray still has twice as much exclusive major studio support than HD-DVD. All that yesterday's announcement has done is royally piss off a lot of people! :evil:

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"To$hiba"? :lol:
This just looks like HD DVD will have the higher quality titles.

I'm just wondering what Warner Bros. will do.

Timstuff

Blu-Ray still has twice as much exclusive major studio support than HD-DVD. All that yesterday's announcement has done is royally piss off a lot of people! :evil:

BD- Sony, Fox, Disney, Lionsgate

HD- Universal, Paramount, Weinstein

Neutral- Warner, New Line

Weinstein went neutral.

And Blu-Ray's customer base is 2x the size of HD-DVDs, and is rapidly approaching the 3x mark.

Weinstein went neutral.

And Blu-Ray's customer base is 2x the size of HD-DVDs, and is rapidly approaching the 3x mark.

Timstuff

The number should be 5x+ but it's not and that is one of themany reasons that Paramount jumped ship. And never heard about Weinstein going neutral. Got a link to prove it?

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Weinstein went neutral.

And Blu-Ray's customer base is 2x the size of HD-DVDs, and is rapidly approaching the 3x mark.

BadAndy642

The number should be 5x+ but it's not and that is one of themany reasons that Paramount jumped ship. And never heard about Weinstein going neutral. Got a link to prove it?

Okay, so since Bluy-Ray's lead wasn't as big as Paramount wanted, they decided to jump behind the loser. Riiiiiighhht... >_>

It's been confirmed that Paramount accepted a 150 million dollar "cash incentive" to drop Blu-Ray support. However, it also turns out that the exclusive deal is for only 18 months. If Toshiba doesn't seriously pull ahead by then, Paramount will go back to making Blu-Rays. Still, it sucks that I'll have to wait 18 months to buy Transformers just because Paramount couldn't have some friggin' patience to get $150M the legit way! :evil: