On Friday executives at Warner Brothers announced that they would be committing to support the Blu-Ray format for HD movies and would be ceasing production of movies in the HD-DVD format at the end of May, 2008.
Though the battle is far from over with technology giants like Intel and Microsoft backing the Toshiba-led HD-DVD format. Disney and Fox have both committed to the Blu-Ray format. WB has been producing movies in both formats until now. With the decision to move to the Blu-Ray format, this tilts the scales in the direction of the Sony-backed format quite significantly, particularly for movies.
One possibility we may see is Blu-Ray being adopted for movies, and HD-DVD being adopted for the video game industry, particularly given Microsoft’s support of the format in it’s XBox 360 console.
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