Warner Brothers drops HD DVD

Posted on 6 Jan 2008 at 17:42

Warner Brothers has announced that it will no longer support the HD DVD format and will only produce Blu-ray discs. As the largest player in the home entertainment market, this could effectively be the end of HD DVD with only Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures still exclusively producing discs for the format.

The HD DVD camp's response to the announcement hasn't been very encouraging, and it has cancelled all of its CES 2008 press events due to the "timing of the Warner Home Video announcement". So far it has yet to respond officially.

Bill Gates was reported to be announcing an HD DVD version of the Xbox 360 in his final press conference on Sunday night, although the recent announcement could throw this launch into doubt. We'll bring you full details of this as it happens.

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Author: David Ludlow

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