Hybrid Hi-Def DVD Put On Hold

[Peter O]

Hybrid Hi-Def DVD Put On Hold


Warner Home Video, which had announced with great fanfare earlier this year that by fall it would be releasing high-definition titles on a hybrid disc compatible with both Blu-ray and HD DVD players, said Wednesday that it is postponing the fall launch of the discs to "at least" early 2008. The website High-Def Disc News said that the announcement, made during the Entertainment Supply Chain Academy in Los Angeles, came as a surprise, since as recently as March, the company had indicated that all production and replication hurdles for what it calls Total HD had been cleared. "There is no expiration date on the viability of this concept, so we're not in a rush to do it," Warner marketing executive Steve Nickerson told the trade publication Video Business. "We'll do it when it makes sense and when it's right."

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