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January 7th, 2008
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There's potentially big news in blowing in today, and it comes straight from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Apparently, Sony's been demonstrating the "next level of disc copying" to a curious audience and successfully transferred an entire Blu-ray movie as a lower-res version to a memory stick. More on that at the full story. |
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Paramount in HD DVD blow By Matthew Garrahan and Mariko Sanchanta in Las Vegas Published: January 8 2008 02:49 | Last updated: January 8 2008 02:49 Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD DVD after Warner Brothers’ recent backing of Sony’s Blu-ray technology, in a move that will sound the death knell of HD DVD and bring the home entertainment format war to a definitive end. Paramount and DreamWorks Animation, which makes the Shrek films, came out in support of HD DVD last summer, joining General Electric’s Universal Studios as the main backers of the Toshiba format. However, Paramount, which is owned by Viacom, is understood to have a clause in its contract with the HD DVD camp that would allow it to switch sides in the event of Warner Bros backing Blu-ray, according to people familiar with the situation. Paramount is set to have a bumper 2008 with several likely blockbusters, including the latest instalment in the Indiana Jones franchise. Paramount joining the Blu-ray camp would leave HD DVD likely to suffer the same fate as Sony’s now obsolete Betamax video technology, which lost out to VHS in a similar format war in the 1980s. Warners decision last week to throw its weight behind Blu-ray saw it join Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as backers of the Sony format. The Warners move gives Blu-ray about 70 per cent of Hollywood’s output, although the format’s grip on film content will increase further when Paramount comes aboard. It is unclear whether DreamWorks Animation has the same get-out clause in its contract with the HD DVD camp. However, Paramount and DreamWorks have a close relationship, with Paramount distributing DreamWorks Animation films. The two companies also signed their HD DVD contracts at the same time. Meanwhile, Universal has declined to comment on its next-generation DVD plans since the Warners move. Sir Howard Stringer, chief executive of Sony, on Monday held out an olive branch, saying the company would be “open to dialogue” with the HD DVD camp to “grow the market”. The move came as new figures showed that Blu-ray had opened up a decisive lead over the rival home entertainment format. Sir Howard said: “We are not going to push people around. We’ll talk to anyone ... we have a lot of work to do to grow the market. We’ll be systematic and open to dialogue at all times.” He added that Sony still had “a lot of work” to do to get Blu-ray “widely accepted” among American consumers. “With Warner’s support you saw billboards going up in different places and you saw television commercials getting more and more sophisticated and that’s what we’ll continue doing,” said Sir Howard. |
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January 7th, 2008
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Originally Posted by GamePro.com
Industry site GameSet-Watch quietly recognizes our print efforts, and we massage our egos.
 "Thanks to trashing all vestiges of the old GamePro and aggressively expanding the range of its coverage, GP has succeeded in not only being relevant to its target audience again, but actually being readable (and enjoyable) by gamers of any age," writes game mag watchdog Kevin Gifford while looking back at the last year in print. "It's incredibly satisfying to see GamePro once again serving as a leader in video game information," said senior editor Sid Shuman. "GamePro's 2007 magazine redesign was a smashing success, both from a newsstand perspective and a readership perspective. "But for all the improvements and upgrades we made in 2007, the best is yet to come," he added. " Stay tuned, GPers, and as always, this is your magazine." According to IDG Entertainment, GamePro's parent company, GamePro is "the fastest growing gaming magazine in its category with nearly 3.5 million readers." Disclosure: Kevin Gifford also freelances for Games.net, including his most recent piece on Game Magazines: Then and Now. Games.net is owned by GamePro's parent company, IDG. |
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