HD DVD titles to outnumber Blu-ray in Europe

[The News Bot]

Manufacturers and studios backing the HD DVD format have formed the European HD DVD Promotional Group, Ltd. Members Toshiba, Microsoft, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Studio Canal plan to release 100 HD DVD titles into Europe before summer, rising to 600 by the end of the year. The group believes this will give them numbers [...]
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[Glenzo]

Studio Canal I knew these guys would be a great and welcome boost to HD DVD

[richie007bond]

This is fantastic news,i love HD DVD and more studio support is a good sign,i wont be buying blue ray with its mpeg 2 codecs movies,hd dvd movies have better onscreen extras with its HDi interface and seem to edge blue ray on PQ.

[Cool-hand]

So do we get LOTR this year then?? I would have thought they would have turned this out to rival bond!

CH

[degsmurr]

Fantastic news! Just what I wanted to hear.

[inzaman]

Very interesting news and a good boost to the hd-dvd format.

[Kirk]

I have to say I am pleased to hear that a bigger push is being put behind this format.

I won't get involved in having a pop at Blu-ray, but at this time I favour HD-DVD and wish more manufactures would release hardware.

Anyway, only have the Xbox Add-on and 5 or 6 films so far and have to say I am extremely pleased with the results.

[Rasczak]

TBH it has been know for a long while that HD DVD studio in Europe is significantly greater than BluRay - especially in the non-English countries such as Spain and France. Far too much attention focus on the 'big' five/seven US studios which, although extremely important especially in the short term, aren't anywhere near the 'full' picture.