Paramount Studios Goes With HD-DVD

Despite what many are thinking, HD-DVD is not dead yet. Actually, it’s far from it, and today only proves that even more. Movie studio Paramount announced that they have adopted the format instead of Blu-ray, which probably won’t mean that much to Sony, but will mean a lot to Toshiba. Each camp has great support, so it’s still far too early to declare a “winner”. If we will ever be able to at all…

What makes this decision so remarkable is the fact that Paramount was a fence straddler: the company has issued movies in both HD DVD and Blu-ray over the past several months, choosing to evaluate the market. Paramount says that its evaluation uncovered two benefits to HD DVD. First, the format is less expensive to produce, as we have touched on before. Second, Paramount described HD DVD as being superior owing to “market-ready technology.”

Source: Ars Technica