{"id":2132,"date":"2007-08-19T20:48:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T03:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2132"},"modified":"2012-12-17T22:55:29","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T06:55:29","slug":"paramount-backs-hd-dvd-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/paramount-backs-hd-dvd-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Backs HD-DVD Format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2261\" title=\"hddvd_logo-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/hddvd_logo-S.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"138\" \/>AUG. 19, 2007 <em>\u2022 <\/em>Paramount Home Video Home Video joined Universal Studios Home Video in backing the HD-DVD format exclusively. The Blu-ray format promoted by Sony Electronics has won exclusives with Fox Home Video, Lions Gate Entertainment, MGM Home Video, and Walt Disney Home Video. Warner Home Video releases high-definition movies on both formats. So far, the sales of Blu-ray titles out-pace those on HD-DVD in the U.S. and Europe by two-to-one thanks in part to sales of the PS3, which comes with Blu-ray playback. Regardless, Paramount marketing executive Rob Moore told Daily Variety that entry-level HD-DVD players starting at $250 with a $100 advantage over stand-alone Blu-ray players, was behind the decision. &#8220;When we looked at the data so far, buy rates for people who have bought stand-alone players is much higher than when someone buys a player embedded in a game system,&#8221; Moore said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact: The game systems complicate the high-definition war because they drive such a high volume of unit sales. Because many users may not use their game system to play high-definition movies it can be hard to assess the potential installed base for a format. In reporting sales it is important to separate out how many are dedicated players versus how many re embedded in game systems.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 19, 2007 \u2022 Paramount Home Video Home Video joined Universal Studios Home Video in backing the HD-DVD format exclusively. The Blu-ray format promoted by Sony Electronics has won exclusives with Fox Home Video, Lions Gate Entertainment, MGM Home Video, and Walt Disney Home Video. Warner Home Video releases high-definition movies on both formats. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}