Paramount & Dreamworks HD DVD support ends March 4
By Richard Lawler 
posted Feb 28th 2008 11:11PM
posted Feb 28th 2008 11:11PM
We don't know if Jeffrey Katzenberg got a text message, fax, e-mail or smoke signal indicating the format war was over, but Video Business has confirmed Paramount and Dreamworks Animation will (rather abruptly) to stop releasing HD DVDs after next week. If you were looking forward to Bee Movie on March 11, Sweeney Todd on April 1 or the just announced There Will Be Blood, those are cancelled. Into the Wild and the appropriately-named Things We Lost in the Fire will be Paramount's last reminders of its exclusive agreement. Not specifically mentioned was Star Trek: TOS Season 2, but don't hold your breath. Blu-ray release plans are still up in the air but we wouldn't be surprised to hear something soon. As far as HD DVD movies still scheduled, that leaves two from Universal (for now) and twelve from Warner Bros, who may have been the first to leave red, but will apparently be the last major studio out the door.Read - Video Business
Read - High-Def Digest
What! No Bee Movie!
if you read the digitalbits.com info: there will be a bee movie on dvd in the coming weeks. with a nice blu ray movie to be released afterward. check it out.
so, you will be able to upscale your movie--but, we hi-def fans might have to wait a few for the real deal
Oh, actually I was just joking but thanks for letting me know heh =D
Bee Movie was already pressed on HD DVD. It's just a question of whether Dreamworks will bother to ship them out.
If they never release that turd of a movie, the better.
NBC whoring that movie for the month or so it did has made my vow to never watch it. That and Jerry Seinfeld is annoying and a snore.
Thank god for DVR or else I would have stopped watching NBC shows while they continue to whore that movie.
And here I am STILL waiting on Teen Wolf 2 on LaserDisc.
laser disc????? can we say 15 years ago.....
@Fred: Hey, I just saw a great sale on eBay you might be interested in: buy a slightly used sense of humor and get a free video on how to repair stuck ? keys.
Fred, you just served.
Best. Comeback. Ever.
[CBG reference because of your avatar!]
Ahhaha, there's certainly a market out there for lightly used, working humor-units.
That post has the most links to external sites, ever
No, just two. But it does have the most links to other stuff inside engadget
I remember when those stupid bastards released Transformers on "HDDVD ONLY".
WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?
Apparently all the little fanboys such as yourself.
"And I will be watching it for years on my still functioning HD DVD player."
HAHAHA... you are going to keep an entire HD-DVD viewing unit in your entertainment center - inveitably alongside your Blu-ray player - just to watch a couple of movies that - also inevitably - will wind up on Blu-ray?
YOU SHOW 'EM!
WOW, now that's what I call pulling the rug from right under you.
Yes indeed, who's laughing now?...everyone it seems!
There Will Be Blood, cancelled? Goddamnit
Well, apparently, there is blood, just won't be the movie LOL
This is HD Massacre at its worst. I was actually lookin forward to Sweeney Todd, though I can't stand Depp and his liberal douchebaggery.
I just bought the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player for $49.99 to watch Sweeney Todd on HD DVD, but now it's cancelled?
Shame on you Paramount!
One Comment
Though the hd-dvd are now priced at discontinued, I really think this is what the right and affordable price point. I have picked up two toshiba HD player (first time buyer) just for the sake of the price.
To all the studio out there, sell me HD-DVD movies! I will buy.
Is this too late? will tosh change their mind?
in all likely hood its over, but if something bad happens to blu ray, im sure they could still sell on hd dvd. paramount and universal never signed any exclusivity to blu ray, and its possible the other studio could produce hd dvd once theres run out. but again in all likely hood its over.
your a dumb fuck.
no offense.
if you bothered to learn the difference between "you're" and "your" that comment would hold much more weight.
Sweeney Todd is cancelled on HD DVD? Damn, I just bought the Xbox 360 HD DVD Player to watch Sweeney Todd on HD DVD.
Shame on you Paramount!
what do they plan on doing till then?
Ugh, buying an HD-DVD player now is just a waste of a darn good HMDI port
ok. done with the hddvd topics. we get it. it's done. it's over. enough. isn't there a yellow or magenta ipod coming out you could talk about?
LOL!
Seriously, Engadget. Can you leave this format war $hit to at least EngadgetHD?
LOL!
Seriously, Engadget. Can you leave this format war $hit to at least EngadgetHD?
Effin' double-post!
yeah, didnt need you to point that out with a triple post
Let's be real...no one reads Engadget HD.
I hate that stupid friggin' Paramount logo. Creepy!
Mountains are creepy?
When they're jagged, abstract, and jump out at you like this, they sure as hell are!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dQslKBCkPQ&feature=related
Now now, it's just a rotated white Pac-man coughing. Nothing creepy there.
None of them have been cancelled! Stop scaring people. All of them can be preordered at Amazon in HD-DVD.
Just because you can pre-order it doesn't mean you'll get it. Hell, with Amazon, just because you *ordered* it doesn't mean you'll get it.
STAR TREK!
Oh poor you, while we in Norway think the gas is cheap when it is $8.34 a gallon as last time i filled it up (around $100 for a full tank), you have problem when it goes up from $2?
So next time you fill up, you can think of me and buy some Paramount and Dreamworks Blu-ray movies for what you save on not living in Europe ;) (they do also sell movies in about every gas station. not seen any blu ray there yet though)
@Chebwa:
I have a Philips 47" LCD 1080p, and a Onkyo 905 for a total of 7 HDMI inputs. One for the 360, one for the cable card enabled Vista Media Center, one for the PS3, one for the cable box, and one for the HD DVD player. I have two ports left. I will be enjoying HD DVD for a long time. When both of my two HD DVD players break 10 years from now, if Blu-ray is still around then I will buy the Blu-ray version of Transformers from the $5 bin.
@Chebwa:
I have a Philips 47" LCD 1080p, and a Onkyo 905 for a total of 7 HDMI inputs. One for the 360, one for the cable card enabled Vista Media Center, one for the PS3, one for the cable box, and one for the HD DVD player. I have two ports left. I will be enjoying HD DVD for a long time. When both of my two HD DVD players break 10 years from now, if Blu-ray is still around then I will buy the Blu-ray version of Transformers from the $5 bin.
@Chebwa:
I have a Philips 47" LCD 1080p, and a Onkyo 905 for a total of 7 HDMI inputs. One for the 360, one for the cable card enabled Vista Media Center, one for the PS3, one for the cable box, and one for the HD DVD player. I have two ports left. I will be enjoying HD DVD for a long time. When both of my two HD DVD players break 10 years from now, if Blu-ray is still around then I will buy the Blu-ray version of Transformers from the $5 bin.
When the Star Trek series reappears on Blu-Ray after everybody went out and bought the HD-DVD version,is that going to be called the Next Generation? Oh, wait.... Hehe, hehe, snort.
Why were you surprised to find that you weren't paying attention?
I can't even begin to list the ways and reasons that this is a horrible idea and how flawed your logic is...but way to solve the problem with a grass-roots solution of spreading your idea in blog comments.
i was kind of skeptical about them releasing Sweeney Todd on HD-DVD.
now there's hope for it in Blu-ray so I can get it