Paramount Cancels 3 HD-DVD Releases

Not only has Blu-ray won the format war, but now HD-DVD is rubbing consumers' faces in it. Paramount will stop releasing HD-DVDs after next week. Cancelled releases include Bee Movie (DreamWorks Animation, which is distributed by Paramount, had scheduled it for March 11), Sweeney Todd (April 1), and even the just announced There Will Be Blood. Into the Wild and Things We Lost in the Fire will be Paramount's last vestiges of its short-lived HD-DVD agreement. Instead all those titles and more will be released on Blu-ray sometime in the future. 

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3 Comments »

  1. You think they can go ahead and cancel “Bee Movie” on ANY format?!?

    Comment by Christopher — February 29, 2008 @ 12:10 pm

  2. that’s great. blu-ray is power!

    Comment by francesco — March 1, 2008 @ 6:04 am

  3. Jeffrey must be rolling over. Do they have to giveback the 150 mil they they accepted from their exclusive deal with Toshiba? Greed always leads to a companies demise.

    Comment by Bebe — March 3, 2008 @ 4:59 pm

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