Pocket-lint chats with Sony: Paramount will come back to Blu-ray camp

As the Blu-ray camp celebrates the sale of the millionth Blu-ray disc movie, Pocket-lint chats to Rachel Banin, product manager of the home video business group at Sony to get an industry insider's perspective of what this means for the format war as a whole, and her thoughts on the future for Blu-ray and HD DVD, including an interesting take on Paramount's current stance.

[green]

I think N4G will be a much better site if news concerning BLUE-RAY or HD-DVD is never released until the victor has been truly decided.

This site is NEWS 4 GAMERS not NEWS 4 HD.I think the contributors should stop approving these stories.

[crazy25000]

though, especially for ps3 owners, all i use is blu-ray and i know other ps3 users use blu ray

i bought the ps3 to use as a full entertainment system, games, movies, music...etc

[unlimited]

PS3 have Blu-Ray and its used for movies and GAMES!! so it matters to everyone who have the PS3. Also it matter to xbox fanboys that buy a hddvd player add on....I hope the success of Blu ray player mean more exclusive games for us..

[marinelife9]

I'm a gamer and I personally like to be kept up to date on the format war. There are a lot of articles in N4G that I just ignore when I'm not interested. I don't have time to read every article anyway.

[PS3PCFTW]

its important to many people

[DRUDOG]

If you don't want to know about it, then don't click the link. It's not hurting anybody to have this information on N4G and it certainly applies to owners of PS3. Bottom line: if you don't care, than don't read it.

[UnblessedSoul]

When Warner goes blu-ray the war will end and bluray will be the winning format

[pwnsause]

I think its becoming more and more clear that Warner will go blu, just the fact that Sony is this confident that Paramount will come back to blu-ray, just makes me think, is this a hint that they are going jump ship sooner than expected again cause of the Warner Exclusivity?

[MK_Red]

It would be really fun to watch if Paramount decides to go back to PS3 and at the same time WB become Blu exclusive. I predict HD-DVD and Toshiba will perform harakiri if that happens.

[ironwolf]

Say your a studio boss and you want to sell a version of your movies to the owners of one of two mutually exclusive machines.

Do you pick the player that only plays movies and is bought by adults who want it in order to play movies and has a lower price and faster growth rate , or do you pick the player that 90% plus of the world considers to be a children's toy and is owned primarily by unemployed children?

I would think the choice should be obvious to anyone with a business sense; or a lab rat; or maybe even a fanboy.

[MK_Red]

So these are the unemployed children that help Blu-ray software outsell HD-DVD 3:1? And so, Sony, Disney, Fox, MGM and few others have no business sense and are dumber than lab rats(In your opinon)?

[titntin]

The article plainly states that worldwide Blu ray outsells HD DVD by a factor of 4 to 1.

When Warner look at their sales records, they will see that the same movies on bluray, sell many more units than their HD DVD equivilents.
Thats surely the largest ecconomic consideration?

Hoho! Unemployed children? Oh come on... you are the kind of troll thats been bemoaning how unbelievabley expensive the PS3 was, yet you expect people to swallow that line! :)
However you look at it, a million blu ray titles sold is good buisness, and the PS3 has started shifting in greater numbers world wide, so the rate of sales will be ever increasing.

If warner wish to make a choice for the future at all (and I'm not so sure they will), then it would surely be in the blu camp.
Suits m,e as I have all the machines, and the PS3 is a fine blu ray player. Don't want to have to cough up for a seperate HD movie machine!

[crunchie101]

Do you release your film on a format that will sell 100,000 copies, or 200,000 copies??

[razer]

To all those replying to this comment..

I think the same thing can be said about game developers. And who has the largest sell thru of games?? I think these dev's need to go exclusive to the console that sells the most games according to this logic..

But I bet you don't agree with that.

[PS3PCFTW]

well GAYsir, if that the case you can keep ea, ubisoft and all the other 95% of american companies which dont innovate their respective genres.

there goes your comment, right out the freaking window.......just like a 360 rrod's. useless

you were so pro hddvd before, what happened? i think your last prohddvd comment was about transformers or sumthin, NOW its not looking too good huh?

see the difference between you xbots and sony fans? we stand by our quality products, we know the outcome will be in our favor. next time think twice before you decide to "jump in".

*8.1: youre retarded, now stFU.

http://ps3.qj.net/ESA-30-of...

[mralexander]

I would choose the winning format.

Currently Blu-ray is in the lead and all sources point to it being so. Now besides that the majority of the players are "children toys," it still does not change the fact that there are more blu-ray capable players than HD-DVD players currently on the market.

With all these facts in mind, blu-ray will be the obvious choice.

Your point of view is too one-sided, all studios aim to have a single format. If one option has a better potential in upgradeable content, it'll be the better choice to invest for the future.

[UnblessedSoul]

Ironwolf that's the stupidest comment I've ever read

[ironwolf]

Why are they celebrating the sale of the 1 millionth disk.....when there are 8 million players in the world?

[Danja]

He's been going around and spamming all Blu Ray articles with that same ignorant comment..!!

I think Warner will probably wait to see how the holiday sales go before making a desicion....and they probably want to milk w/e..they can get out of HD DVD also..

[Meus Renaissance]

If Blu-Ray wins and consequently the other studios go exclusive, Sony should shut the door on Paramount as punishment. Then 6 months later, allow them back but only by request. They upset alot of people with their decision to go HD-DVD exclusive and customers lost out so it's only fair they should lose as well.

[MK_Red]

lol, That would be fun and Paramount definitly deserves a punishment. Those greedy people forgot about everything when saw that $150 million. They even forgot that their movies could have sold more on Blu-ray and the income could have been much bigger than $150 and HD-DVD software sales.

[scrillakiller]

i know 5 people with ps3 myself included.one is 17 years old.he has 15 bluray movies all the rest of are in our 20s and we all watch bluray

[ironwolf]

are in the small percentage of exceptions. Face it, people of the world in general view game consoles as children's toys, not an adult hobby. That's the reality, deal with it.

[BlackIceJoe]

Ironwolf the truth is the studios know there are more then kids that play these games. Just think about the days of Atari. The people that played those systems are in there forties. Plus then you had the NES they are still buying game consoles to this very day. So there is money in the Game bis and it is not just for kids. Also another thing when DVD came out the PS2 had a DVD player built in and that helped push the sales of DVDs. Maybe there was no other thing then DVD but had the DVD not been built in DVDs would not have sold as fast as they have. So this time around there is two formats and even though the sales of have not been as good as companies would have liked having BR built in the PS3 has helped sell more disks. Even if you do not like it that is what happened and still is.

[Nameless]

I think Paramount has shown that they are not loyal to anyone & what is to stop Microsoft giving them more money to extend that contract before the current one ends ? I think as usual the Blu-Ray camp is full of ****. If they dont pay up it is obvious that they wont get Paramount. If Paramount was loyal they would have stayed neutral like the WB. If Blu-Ray wanted Paramount so bad then they should pay up & start making the deals now before the contract ends & if the Blu-Ray camp did get Paramount back only to give them the middle finger then they are no better then Microsoft or the HD-DVD camp & they would go back to HD-DVD exclusive for free.

[Gordii]

As much as i agree with shuttin the door i wouldn't mind startrek on blu-ray as soon as possible thats what i been waiting for because i saw it on HD-DVD and i been waiting for them to come to blu-ray ^^

[Altis1]

... period.

[Kholinar]

Wow... great title:

"I think that if the progress of the Blu-ray format continues, Paramount will have to come back."

The title should be "Pocket-lint chats with Sony: Sony exec says Paramount will have to come back if we continue to do well."

So basically the title misquoted a speculative assertion as both truth and the most important part of the article. Which is sad, since it's interesting by itself. But I guess that gains ya some contributor points...

[Maddens Raiders]

keep fighting your own war. Hint: No one cares about your personal opinion except, guess who? Life is short; get one.

[whoelse]

They havnt said they will com before the 18 months so it doesnt mean alot. Ofcource if they did that, they would have to give back the £150 000 000 or at least most of that money.

[name]

I heart Rachel.

[kingme71]

Why can't studios put out content in both formats? I haven't understood why studios take one side or the other when putting out both formats would be more financially sound... Other than Microsoft tossing them
a bag full of money not to.

Alot of games are multi console and it's a heck of alot more work to make games for 2 different systems then it is to make movies for 2 formats.

[pornflakes]

hm,... but still hd dvd's are selling, arent they?

And although the 360 outsells the ps3 in software 3:1 multiplattform games are still developed for the PS3.

So whats the matter?
I mean.. if it goes throw the PS3 opinion HD DVD should be dead in 2008.. well, but the PS3 should be also dead as a gaming machine.

That's exactly the same guys.