For the past 15 months, I've had an addiction. An addiction to the high def format war. Day after day scouring the interwebs, looking for any information about who did what.
Long story short, it ended on Monday.
Toshiba, the daddy of HD DVD called it quits. Universal Pictures, the staunchest supporting studio of HD DVD announced the same day they were going Blu-ray. Most retail stores began clearing out HD DVD products. Hooray! I can stop obsessing and simply start enjoying movies from all the studios in high def!
High 5 Warner Bros.! High 5 Disney, Fox, Sony, Lionsgate, MGM, and Universal! High 5 Para... hey wait. Paramount, where are you? Hey guys? Hello?
A quasi-insider has stated that Paramount, the same studio who mercilessly stabbed Blu-ray in the back last summer and ditched them for HD DVD, the now deceased format, is going to stick with said deceased format for now.
It was long rumored that Toshiba paid Paramount financial incentives to release exclusively on HD DVD for a period of 18 months, and the latest rumor is that Paramount is in no rush to join everyone else on Blu, because so long as they remain HD DVDeceased exclusive, Toshiba still has to pay them monthly installments per their initial contract.
Thats right, they're more concerned with sucking funds from Toshiba for the time being than joining the rest of the ENTIRE fucking industry and moving forward as one cohesive group to insure the proliferation of Blu-ray into the main-stream.
Keep in mind, as I said earlier, this may be entirely false, but it's the latest buzz. For all I know, they could come out tomorrow and say they'll support Blu-ray, but this whole rant is just in response to the current rumors.
So, for the time being, I declare Paramount Pictures filthy, sweaty taints. Paramount, you are indeed the perineum of Hollywood.
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