Hollywood snubs Sony&#39;s new DVD format
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By Michiyo Nakamoto in Tokyo and Scott Morrison in San Francisco. Sony has suffered a big setback in its bid to set the standard for next-generation DVDs as four Hollywood studios announced they would support a rival technology backed by Toshiba.
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Toshiba said on Monday that four major Hollywood studios had thrown their crucial weight behind High Definition DVD (HD-DVD), one of two disc formats contending to be the standard in next-generation DVDs.
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Fears of a deteriorating U.S. economy  and falling DVD industry sales helped drive Warner Bros's  decision to back Sony's Blu-ray next generation DVD format  exclusively, a top executive told Reuters on Monday.
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Tussle over next-generation DVD format could alienate consumers.
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Disney is lining up behind Sony's new high-definition DVD format while other Hollywood players back the rival Toshiba format. Will the format wars scare consumers away from the next generation of DVD players? -washingtonpost.com
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The battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD to define the next generation DVD format shows no signs of cooling off. While electronics and computer companies such as Sony, Dell and HP back the Blu-ray
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Time Warner Inc's Warner  Bros studio on Friday said it would exclusively release  high-definition DVDs in Sony Corp's Blu-ray format, dealing a  big blow to Toshiba Corp's rival HD DVD technology.
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Disney announced yesterday that it would release its films on Sony&#39;s Blu-ray DVD format - a week after three other Hollywood studios backed rival Toshiba&#39;s HD-DVD.
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Punches continue to be thrown in the fight over which next-generation DVD format will be established as the industry standard. (And there will be an industry standard, right corporate bigwigs?
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The DVD Format war continues as Disney gave their support for the Blu-ray format without ruling out possibilities on the HD DVD format discs.
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Several movie studios announced plans Thursday to release a handful of films on high-definition DVD in Europe, continuing the slow rollout of the new format worldwide.
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Four Hollywood studios announced that they would release films in a new high-definition DVD format by the end of next year, an advance in the effort to define a new DVD standard.
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Time Warner Inc's   Warner Bros studio on Friday said it would exclusively release  high-definition DVDs in Sony Corp's (6758.T) Blu-ray format,  dealing a big blow to Toshiba Corp's (6502.T) rival HD DVD  technology.
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Warner Bros. said Friday that it would exclusively release high-definition DVDs in Sonyâs Blu-ray format, dealing a big blow to Toshibaâs rival HD DVD technology.
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DVDs will be harder to pirate thanks to new copy protection measures by Macrovision.
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Company is the latest to choose sides in the next-generation DVD format battle.
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HD DVD is gaining momentum with Hollywood studios. Several studios have announced their intentions to go with the Toshiba format, among them New Line Cinema, Paramount