Last week rumors started to fly about Warner Bros. wanting to drop support of HD DVD and only release their movies in HD on Blu-ray beginning sometime next year. Where these rumors began, I don’t know, but it was most likely on a blu-ray forum somewhere.
Jim Noonan, Warner Bros. Senior Vice President and General Manager, clarified the situation.
Once again Warner responded “We have made no decision to change our present policy which is to produce in both HD DVD and Blu-ray.”
So far, figures have shown that Warner’s neutral standpoint in the HD format war had earned them a 36% market share of all HD discs sold (HD DVD and Blu-ray.) By far the biggest numbers by any HD studio. It is however, only a matter of time, until it does have to choose a side though. The sooner they pick a side, the sooner this thing can be over.
