Paramount and Dreamworks Go HD-DVD Exclusive

By Joe Haygood | August 20, 2007

Well, while Blu-Ray has been assailing HD-DVD like it was the red headed stepchild of the family as of late, but today it was HD-DVD’s turn to strike back. Paramount Studios, along with affiliate Dreamowrks, will be shipping all future titles on HD-DVD only.

This does not seem big at first until you look at some of the movies just from this past summer that will be on HD-DVD only, like Transformers and Shrek 3. The deal does exclude all Speilberg directed films, as they are not platform specific, but it does cover films he produces. It will also cover all of Nick Studios, MTV, and several other departments. The first HD-DVD title to ship under this agreement will be Blades of Glory, which was suppose to be on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD as of a month ago.

While it is nice to see HD-DVD put up a fight, does anyone really care. Neither look to displace standard DVDs anytime soon. I do like the fact that HD-DVDs can be made as hybrids, so you get standard DVD-9 now and flip it over to get HD-DVD when you are ready to step up. I am also not sure if this can totally stop the head of steam that Blu-Ray has at this point.

Thanks to DailyGame