Warner Brothers Goes Blu-ray

Will Warner Brothers Blu-ray Support Mean the Death of HD DVD?

The New York Times proclaims “The high-definition DVD war is all but over.” That is their conclusion after Warner Brothers studio announced that they will be exclusively delivering HD movies on Blu-ray discs rather than HD DVD. Of all the Hollywood players, Warner has the largest share of the home entertainment market and this move may indeed be the beginning of the end to the standoff between the two competing High Definition disc formats.

This leaves Paramount, Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation as the only studios remaining that will release movies on HD DVD. That is kind of a drag for me since I was one of the estimated 90,000 purchasers of the $98 Toshiba A2 HD DVD special sale at Wal-Mart in early November.

Barry M. Meyer, the CEO of Warner Brothers said “consolidating into one format is something that we felt was necessary for the health of the industry.” It seems that someone at least is finally taking action to end the confusion that is a major reason that consumers have been sitting on the sidelines when it comes to buying high-definition disc players.