Checking out the Competition
September 14, 2006

I'm in Denver for home entertainment installation convention CEDIA today where there are a surprising number of DVD execs showing off HD DVD and Blu-ray and checking out the rival format. While visiting the HD DVD Promotional group's truck parked outside the convention center, I spotted execs from Blu-ray backing studios Buena Vista and Sony who had just watched an HD DVD demo and were looking at set-ups of the XBox 360 with HD DVD add-on outside. Universal (an HD DVD-only studio) execs Craig Kornblau and Ken Graffeo were on hand, joking with their rivals and showing off bonus features on the upcoming Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

But don't read too much into it - I asked, Universal still has no plans to put out releases in Blu-ray and Sony and Disney aren't planning to put out releases in HD DVD.

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