Other shoe drops: Warner joins Blu-ray Disc Association
As expected, Warner Bros. yesterday announced they were going to release movies not only on HD-DVD as they had previously stated, but also on the Blu-ray format. This being so far after it was originally announced it's sort of anti-climactic, but there were a couple interesting things.
In this article from VideoBusiness, in one section it mentions in one section that Warner was holding out for safeguards against unauthorized copying, then at the end of the piece states that Warner wanted the BDA to move in the direction suggested by HP, as far as adopting managed copy and iHD. My question is, what exactly was Warner asking for, some unknown set of copy protection above and beyond what has already been listed, the same thing HP is now pursuing, or what?
Were their demands even met, whatever they were, or will they be? I guess we will see in the coming weeks and months.
Another quote mentioned from an unnamed studio exec says Sony won't be able to deliver on what it has promised for another two years regarding Blu-ray. Is this in reference to their PS3 launch, which is a big part of their Blu-ray push? Or is this alluding to the same thing Microsoft claimed, that Blu-ray's 50gb capacity is not ready for prime time?
As usual, things keep getting murkier.