Universal studios is switching to Blu-ray technology, and the last nail in HD DVD ‘s coffin echoes throughout the industry. More on the story from yahoo.com:
The studio is set to announce Thursday that the program will kick off in the summer with the recent box office flop “Doomsday.”Universal‘s Blu-ray strategy includes plans to release about 40 titles in the second half of the year.
Universal had been HD DVD’s biggest studio backer ever since the next-generation optical disc format came to market in April 2006. But when Toshiba pulled the plug on the format in February, the studio wasted no time switching its allegiance to Sony’s Blu-ray.
Tons of movies are scheduled to come out on Blue-ray by Universal, The Mummy, Knocked Up, Miami Vice ect. as well as all of this summer’s blockbusters. Can’t say I’m surprised by this, Blu-ray has won the war and HD-DVD is gone. It’s not like Universal was going to continue putting out High Def films on a dead technology.
