HD DVD about to fight back...

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by PRO-630HD

In reality another film studio could buy New Line as they do have an impressive back catalog. Look at what happened a few years ago with MGM also then owned by Warner. Being bought by Sony and then shifting to Fox. Warner must really be hurting for money now which explains why they took the 500 million dollar pay off.

Warner & Fox don't own MGM. MGM had a distribution deal with Warner and now with FOX for their catalog. Sony does own 20% of MGM.

[PRO-630HD]

Originally Posted by Lotus

Well we should all know which Studio(s) it is fairly shortly. Look for the Wall Street Journal and others to be discussing the Studio(s) and MS fairly soon. It won't mention HD-DVD but I'm sure everyone will be able to read between the lines.

It's going to happen. The real question is:

Does Universal announce BD support tomorrow?

If so it's all over.

If not then they're waiting it out. Will HD-DVD be able to do enough to survive before the 3rd Studio?

Lotus is New Line one of the studios you were referencing?

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by PRO-630HD

Lotus is New Line one of the studios you were referencing?

How do you expect me to respond?

I obviously can't. Because if it was that would be me breaking my word. If it isn't I can't say because then people will start thinking it was another Studio.

There are 3 Studios and as far as I know they're still all in talks.

[PRO-630HD]

Lotus, is this 3 studios besides Paramount, Dreamworks and Universal? I guess I only expected 1 or at best 2 outside of those currently in the hddvd prg. If they swing that it could be 5 potential studios in all combining Paramount and Dreamworks unless I am misunderstanding.

[kkozma]

Originally Posted by Lotus

How do you expect me to respond?

I obviously can't. Because if it was that would be me breaking my word. If it isn't I can't say because then people will start thinking it was another Studio.

There are 3 Studios and as far as I know they're still all in talks.

Lol, we're just trying to get ANY kind of good news going right now, because as of late it's been a barrage of bad news.

[DaViD Boulet]

Much to the same that you and the collective rest of the blu camp continually ignore the basic query to provide proof that they are not.

It's not incumbant upon anyone to prove that something unproven and undemonstrated does *not* exist. A white paper is a list of agreed upon specs. It is not a product in production.

It's incumbant upon a group claiming that something *does* exist and is ready for replication to provide accountability that it is.

This is the manner in which products have always been verified. HD DVD and BD zealotry, on either side, don't change this paradigm.

See my example about the "readiness" of 100GB BD replication.