This whole next gen DVD format war is getting ridiculous. It seems we are watching a soap opera in the HD world and the main plot is who is going to sleep with whom. The movie studios have yet to decide which bed to get in. There have been rumors that Warner Bros., Universal (GE), and Paramount Pictures are going to release movie titles on HD-DVD, but all these movie studios jointly own Movielink with Sony Pictures. It seems like to me that they would go the Blu-Ray route and help out a business partner. Not in this soap opera.

Although no official announcement has been made, the studios would more than likely want any deal to be non-exclusive, so they could put titles out on both formats. The studios are definitely playing the field and I don’t blame them. Who would want to put millions of dollars into production of one DVD format, just to have it become the next Betamax?

R.Hollis

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