Is the BBC Shop going to swap defunt HD-DVD for BR versions?
On 21/02/2008, Ian Smith (Irascian Ltd) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Actually one of those 8 title hits when you do a search is HD-DVD ("Planet
> Earth" appears twice). The BBC have been pretty good on making sure both
> formats are supported equally with the extremely limited releases they've
> made to date.
>
> There was one title in the original batch of releases ("The Tudors Season
> One") that was Blu-Ray only but that's because it was actually put out by
> Sony and not the Beeb. Sony were obviously never going to put out a title
> on
> the rival HD-DVD format.
>
> Now that the last two HD-DVD exclusive hold-outs (Universal and Paramount)
> have announced they're moving to Blu-Ray I think there's litte doubt that
> the Beeb will do the same when their next batch of titles are announced.
>
> Ian
>
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Sparks
> Sent: 21 February 2008 22:56
> To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray
>
> On Thursday 21 February 2008 13:41:21 Andy wrote:
> > A more important question is will the BBC be providing it's programs
> > on Blue-Ray or HD-DVD?
>
> BBC Shop has 8 titles as blu ray & 7 as HD DVD.
>
> cf : http://www.bbcshop.com/ (search for "Blu ray" and HD respectively
> (note quotes round blu ray :) )
>
>
> Michael.
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