Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, the battle continues?

Or does it? There have been some significant developments over the last few days in the high definition disc format wars. It was announced at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that Warner Bros, one of Hollywood’s largest studios has decided to back Blu-Ray for future high definition releases. Warner’s investment in Blu-Ray means that around 75 percent of all HD releases will be exclusive to Blu-Ray in the US.

The decision from Warner has proved to be critical and has influenced many other companies within the industry and around the world to follow suite. Paramount are now also backing Blu-Ray, who hedged their bets initially and offered exclusivity to HD-DVD providing they could reverse the decision if Warner Bros were to back Blu-Ray. It appears that the major US film studio’s backing of Blu-Ray will dramatically influence the take up of the new format around the globe.

So what does this all mean, we know that Blu-Ray is the superior format with more than 3 times the storage capability than HD-DVD and that it would seem that Blu-Ray has won a large majority of future HD releases in the US. It certainly sounds like HD-DVD s days are numbered.

Tim