Some major Hollywood movie studios have stepped up and announced their support of HD-DVD, which is hoping to become the standard next gen DVD format. Warner Bros. Studios, New Line Cinema, Paramount Pictures, and Universal Pictures have stated they will offer titles in the Toshiba HD-DVD format but did not say which titles or give other details.

Big movie titles such as ‘Lord Of The Rings’, ‘The Matrix’, and ‘Harry Potter’ are possible for HD-DVD but because of the non-exclusive nature of the studios’ announcement, these titles have potential for Blu-ray release as well. Even without an exclusive deal support from U.S. film studios is important in this format war, especially since these four studios represent about 45 percent of Hollywood’s prepackaged DVD sales in the United States.

Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema are units of Time Warner Inc., Universal Pictures is a division of General Electric Co., and Paramount Pictures is a unit of Viacom Inc.

R.Hollis

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