Archive: november 16, 2008
Blu-Ray Goes from Christmas Casualty to Christmas Savior? [Blu Ray]
![Blu-Ray Goes from Christmas Casualty to Christmas Savior? [Blu Ray]](/images/news/41407.jpg)
On Tuesday, the economy was gonna kill Blu-Ray. As of Friday, Blu-Ray might save Christmas. Right now, the only difference between our economy and a back-alley crapshoot is the informed punditry of the former. But anyway, a bunch of studio executives met on Friday to say, more or less, if Blu-Ray can roll that hardway four we're totally gonna make the car payment and get out of this.
Seriously though, the Digital Entertainment Group, a consortium of studios and other Blu-Ray backers, forecast that by the end of the year, 10.5 million households will be capable of playing Blu-Ray videos — with...
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