HBO to Follow the Warner Lead
Posted by Dave Cowl
closeAuthor: Dave Cowl
Name: Dave Cowl
Email: dave@formatwarcentral.com
Site: http://www.blu-raystats.com
About: Originally from New Zealand, Dave now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Dave's day job
involves developing high resolution LCoS projectors.
Dave also has a strong interest in cinema and film making, and has
always been an early adopter - he still uses his Sony DVP-S7000 DVD
Player and also owns first generation Blu-ray, HD DVD and DTheater
D-VHS equipment.
Dave has been following the HD Disc format war since the beginning,
which resulted in the Blu-ray Statistics and HD DVD Statistics
websites, designed to track the studio progress with features as they
have released HD media product.See Authors Posts (353) on January 9, 2008
Filed Under: Blu-ray, Format War, HD DVD, Studios
Much as expected, HBO will follow the Time Warner line and wind down HD DVD production in 2008, according to this article at the Hollywood Reporter.
This leaves the BBC as the remaining unspoken for content from Time Warner in the USA, notable for the Planet Earth series which has been nothing short of remarkable in its sales on HD DVD.
Via HighDefDigest.
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