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Warner Extends HD DVD Support By 3 Weeks

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MidnightWatcher
Only by three weeks, but as long as they keep releasing them I'll keep buying them. Not sure if it includes any other titles in addition to what we already know ...

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Burbank (CA) - Warner Home Video announced this week that it will continue to release titles on HD DVD for three weeks longer than it originally anticipated.


Earlier this month, Warner said that it is going to stop supporting HD DVD in May. However, it has now decided to push that deadline back a few weeks to be able to release more of its upcoming titles on both formats.


Despite Warner's Blu-ray exclusivity announcement, over a dozen Warner titles are still slated for release on HD DVD over the next four months. The extension of HD DVD support confirms that Twister and Bonnie & Clyde will come out on both formats instead of being Blu-ray exclusives.


Some other notable Warner titles that will still be released on both formats include Justice League: The New Frontier, I Am Legend, and August Rush.
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Isn't this only because they're delaying the release of Twister and others on HD DVD so they don't come out at the same time as blu-ray?


More of a further slap in the face than any "good news" imo.
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Only by three weeks, but as long as they keep releasing them I'll keep buying them. Not sure if it includes any other titles in addition to what we already know ...

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Warner should had stayed with both formats
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Warner should had stayed with both formats
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Yep! They've shot themselves in the foot with Blu-ray imo.
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Only by three weeks, but as long as they keep releasing them I'll keep buying them. Not sure if it includes any other titles in addition to what we already know ...

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That won't help much. get porn to work instead midnight...yeah m$ and Toshiba should give free hvddv porn that will help alot.
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They should wait for the "Dark Knight"!!!
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The petition and the assault of letters to Warner execs seem to be working. Now if we can delay till the Dark Night comes out I will be a happy camper.
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I believe this announcement is to state that Warner is actually extending the 3 week delay on New Title Releases for HD-DVD to actually cover "Catalog Titles" as well. Basically when they switched to Blu-Ray they stated that up until the cutoff date, all New Releases would be put out on Blu-ray first.. then would come out on HD-DVD 3 weeks later.


Now they are correcting .. stating that yes it's all "New Releases".. anything new to HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. So that includes new titles as well as catalog titles.


Cut off date is still the same. They are just telling you that you are now a second class citizen to them.
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$50 says they extend it one more time...
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I believe this announcement is to state that Warner is actually extending the 3 week delay on New Title Releases for HD-DVD to actually cover "Catalog Titles" as well. Basically when they switched to Blu-Ray they stated that up until the cutoff date, all New Releases would be put out on Blu-ray first.. then would come out on HD-DVD 3 weeks later.


Now they are correcting .. stating that yes it's all "New Releases".. anything new to HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. So that includes new titles as well as catalog titles.


Cut off date is still the same. They are just telling you that you are now a second class citizen to them.
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Did you actually read the quoted announcement . Here it is again


Burbank (CA) - Warner Home Video announced this week that it will continue to release titles on HD DVD for three weeks longer than it originally anticipated.


Earlier this month, Warner said that it is going to stop supporting HD DVD in May. However, it has now decided to push that deadline back a few weeks to be able to release more of its upcoming titles on both formats.

Despite Warner's Blu-ray exclusivity announcement, over a dozen Warner titles are still slated for release on HD DVD over the next four months. The extension of HD DVD support confirms that Twister and Bonnie & Clyde will come out on both formats instead of being Blu-ray exclusives.

Some other notable Warner titles that will still be released on both formats include Justice League: The New Frontier, I Am Legend, and August Rush.


Now where in that (and notice the bold) does it say the end date is the same


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If HD DVD players keep selling perhaps they will reevaluate 100% and stay neutral which is exactly what they should do.
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I see this as a positive. Keep pushing it out ...


Who knows what deals go on behind closed doors these days?
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Isn't this only because they're delaying the release of Twister and others on HD DVD so they don't come out at the same time as blu-ray?
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Yup.

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More of a further slap in the face than any "good news" imo.
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I agree 100%.
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The petition and the assault of letters to Warner execs seem to be working. Now if we can delay till the Dark Night comes out I will be a happy camper.
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Heath Ledger could have an effect on that.
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Im confused, they said they would stop releasing on HD DVD at the end of May. They pushed Twister from May 6 to May 27. Where is the big news?
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3 months makes sense but 3 weeks? Its not as though they are going to release one movie per week, seems this is just to allow for the 3 week delay they are adding to HD DVD releases.

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More of a further slap in the face than any "good news" imo.
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That much is not in doubt.
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I can't believe how this is being spun. Seriously.


Instead of releasing catalog titles on the same day for BD and HD DVD, they are pushing the HD DVD release back three weeks - same as they now do for new releases.
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That won't help much. get porn to work instead midnight...yeah m$ and Toshiba should give free hvddv porn that will help alot.
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I couldn't care less about HD DVD porn.
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$50 says they extend it one more time...
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I could see an extension til the end of the year if HD players sales continue like they are. That way they can appease Bluray because they are "going" to switch and still ride the fence.
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Im confused, they said they would stop releasing on HD DVD at the end of May. They pushed Twister from May 6 to May 27. Where is the big news?
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The "to be able to release more of its upcoming titles on both formats" sounds good to me. Don't know which are included and how many, but I think that anything announced for Blu-ray the last three weeks of May will come to HD DVD sometime in June.
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