New Line Cinema goes Blu-ray only as the HD DVD vs Blu-ray winds down
By Sean P. Aune
As if things couldn’t get any worse for the HD DVD camp, New Line Cinema has opted to go Blu-ray only.
While this shouldn’t come as a huge surprise as the smaller studio is associated with Warner Brothers, which left HD DVD yesterday, it is still another blow. New Line Cinema doesn’t take nearly the catalog of titles with it that Warner Brothers does, but it does take popular series such as Rush Hour and Austin Powers.
While there has been no official announcement of HD DVD throwing the towel into the ring yet, it seems all but certain that there will soon be only one physical high definition format in the market place.
Note we said “physical”, with ever increasing talk of high def downloads, it looks like a whole new war will be coming at us soon.
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January 5th, 2008
& The Lord of the Rings
January 5th, 2008
i just removed my hd dvd off ebay too show my support will continue for as long as the discs keep coming.
take notice studios 1million players will not just go in the trash we will still buy and hopefully you will do the right thing and support both fully
January 5th, 2008
“New Line Cinema doesn’t take nearly the catalog of titles with it that Warner Brothers does…”
Hello? New Line Cinema has THE LORD OF THE RINGS and the upcoming THE HOBBIT. If New Line Cinema had re-released the expanded LOTR trilogy in Blu-ray, then Blu-ray could have killed HD DVD a long time ago.
January 6th, 2008
Lord of the Rings is three films, we’re talking quantity.
January 6th, 2008
HD DVD is a great format, I fully support it…(especially after watching Planet Earth). What is disappointing is that the titles seem fewer and fewer…I couldn’t agree more that the film industy should be supporting both….would have bought rush hour three had New Line released it in HD…but now it’s a matter of principal, I outright refuse to buy it or rent it.
January 7th, 2008
Ha ha, i love it!! Another slap in the face for all you idiots that were backing the Toshiba camp. Did you guys really think HD DVD would win this one?? I know the war is not quite over yet, but with a Blu-Ray player built into every Playstation 3 (which has just passed the 1.2m sold in the US alone) it can only really go one way. I’ve been backing Sony from the start and its good to see that the superior product is going to win.
January 8th, 2008
I agree with DappaDan!
First of all I do feel bad for all those that have bought HD-DVD but why should I really? Its a format war, there was going to be a loser and a winner!
People moaning and still saying that they love their HD-DVD players, honestly you should start thinking about returning them soon to atleast save some money or the bin is wear it will end.
Blu Ray from the start was the hot contender to win this war and please dnt get me to quote, i’ve got bored of this war, do a little research!
Anyway im just gonna shout my say and get this over with.
Anyone notice that Xbox fanbois have been very quite lately?
also where is that guy, you know the one that comes out with bloody long explination on why HD-DVD is better and will win?? what happened to him?
funny though, you still get guys coming on here going on and on that the future is download content and no more disks. Thats a future I dnt wanna see, are you mad!!!
Its not going to take over its going to work alongside buying normal disks, some people will download and some purchase and that will not change for a long…. long….long time.
Where is my research for the above statement you ask? oops none, sorry!
oh just throwing this idea out, could be the worst idea I have ever thought, comment you can, i dnt give a toot but
what if Toshiba and Sony made a deal, before the war started, a lot of people said nothing will happen, people will buy DVDs still, what if Sony and Toshiba realised this and thought lets get a lot of media attention as well as fooling buyers into purchase by starting a war.
By starting this media crazy format war people became aware of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray plus its not like Toshiba and Sony hate each others guts, the two companies have a history of working together, in fact the PS3 Cell processor was built with Toshiba and IBM as partners.
End of the the day when HD-DVD is put in its grave, Toshiba will have to make its first Blu Ray Player.
So Toshiba wont make a major loss ? or will it? I mean they have sold all those HD-DVD’s but then even if they loose they will re-coupe by going Blu Ray
Did sony not make a VHS player after the Betamax fail?
people you can let me know how rubbish that idea sounds sure but any fiber or truth you reckon?
Maz