August 20th, 2007 BennyB
Paramount Home Entertainment will issue new releases day and date as well as catalog titles exclusively on HD DVD. Today’s announcement does not include films directed by Steven Spielberg as his films are not exclusive to either format.
How do you like THEM apples? Spielberg wouldn’t let them take his films to HD-DVD because he’s all about Blu-ray Disc. So what do Paramount and DreamWorks do? They bury that news as the last bit of information in their press release. Greedy little bastards. Hey… Moneysoft talks apparently.
Source: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=893371
Now that Spielberg is onboard with Blu-ray the HD wars are over.
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July 31st, 2007 BennyB
While the effect of adult films on the format war may be a heavily contested, the fact remains that there is a huge demand for this type of material. In Japan, the ability to release adult material on Blu-ray just got a whole lot easier. Assist Corp, who has handled most of the early adult Blu-ray content in Japan, has partnered with a company based in Taiwan to begin replication of adult titles. They are expected to begin production next month.
Sony has long mandated that, while they will not allow their own production facilities to replicate adult material, they will assist any company which wants to do so. With the addition of this new production facility (which purchased the manufacturing equipment directly from Sony), adult content producers now have an additional outlet to manufacturer their features in high definition.
Source: Blu-ray.com
Could this be the final blow in the great Blu-ray vs HD-DVD war?
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July 30th, 2007 BennyB
From a Bizarre Creations (developer of Microsoft’s Project Gotham Racing 4, a new 360 racing game due this fall) staff member at their official forums:
You won’t see different times of day per city because this involves recreating all the textures again (one for day and one for night). Whilst this wasn’t a problem for our dev team, it was a problem fitting all this data onto a single DVD. So we’ve worked around the problem by providing different lighting models per city. For example, Macau is always in the daytime, but if you play it during a storm everything looks darker and more foreboding. If you play during a blizzard then things are slightly tinged blue and everything seems more frozen. Of course, playing this track in sunshine will make everything appear bright and yellowy.
Source: Bizarre Creations Forum
Looks like the limitations of DVD are starting to show up more and more in next generation game development.
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