Video Asylum

Posted by David Aiken (A) on January 07, 2008 at 21:49:22

In Reply to: RE: You're doing the sane thing to sit it out posted by Jazz Inmate on January 07, 2008 at 17:48:14

that suggests Paramount is about to use a 'get out' clause in it's deal with the HD DVD camp and swap back to BD. That would leave Universal so isolated that it would have to make them seriously consider crying 'uncle' and it may not even make much difference if they didn't. No player manufacturer is going to cover costs making a specialty player for one studio and once Toshiba stop manufacture and the remaining HD DVD player stock gets sold, that would leave Universal really in the lurch. Their choices would be to go BD or drop hi def and stick with ordinary DVD. They certainly aren't going to recover their setup costs for HD DVD by continuing to release HD DVDs for a very small number of players.



David Aiken