Rygte: Warner meddelelse den 31. oktober

Rygtesmedene vil vide, at Warner har en officiel udmelding den 31. oktober. Såvidt jeg kan læse mig frem til, er det enten:

1) Warner bliver HD DVD eksklusiv
2) Warner forbliver formatneutral

Det ser ud som om, de fleste hælder til 1. Vi får se!

Jeg kunne bare se, at der var noget postyr:

Well, der er heldigvis ikke lang tid til den 31.  

Sker der ikke noget, så er det nok lidt som at være Scientology medlem og vente på rumskibet

Ikke et ondt ord mere om gode Ron Hubbard så

I forbindelse med Blu-ray festival som startede i går er der igen kommet nogle hints fra Warner. Denne gang er det mere officielt, i form af Warners VP for High-definition media. Så det ser bestemt ud som om, at man snart vælger en side

Also there was Dan Silverberg, VP of high-definition media for Warner Home Video, which since Paramount’s move to the HD DVD camp is the only studio to support both next-generation formats.

That may not be for long, Silverberg said. “One thing that may be changing is our strategy,” he said. “When both formats launched and hardware prices were high, we made a decision to support both formats and let the consumer decide. But now that hardware pricing is affordable for both Blu-ray and HD DVD, it appears consumers no longer want to decide — so the notion of staying in two formats for the duration is something we are re-evaluating now that we are in the fourth quarter.”

Silverberg noted that Warner has the top-selling Blu-ray title of all time with 300 and is consistently No. 1 or No. 2 in both Blu-ray sales market share and in number of Blu-ray titles in the market.

“We can definitely talk Blu-ray,” he said. “We are committed to the format.” At the Monday morning kickoff, the featured speaker was David Berman, director of Home Theater Specialists of America (HTSA), a buying consortium of 62 dealers and 800 installers with combined revenue of more than half a billion dollars a year. He said the HTSA supports Blu-ray because a member survey found 92% favoring Blu-ray over HD DVD