More Bad News For Lynch Fans

[Mahdi]

But good news for everyone else!

Studio Briefing at IMDB is claiming that Sony and Toshiba are planning to announce that they will be joining forces to create a new next generation-DVD system instead of releasing their seprately created platforms (Blue-Ray and HD-DVD) due to fear that the competition could cause damage to the film industry.

Why is this bad news for Lynch fans?

Dune was set to be one of the first HD-DVD releases.

No mention of what this new format will be or what titles will be released in it.

[Andrew]

Hybrid High-Definition DVD System in Works

After spending three years trying to gain support from the major studios for their rival high-definition DVD systems, Sony and Toshiba are close to agreeing on a universal standard, published reports said today (Thursday). Sony has developed the so-called Blu-ray system; Toshiba, the HD DVD system. The Japanese business daily Nihon Keizai Shimbun and the Kyodo News Service reported that the two rivals are expected to announce as early next week that the incompatibility of their two systems would pose a problem for the industry and that they therefore have decided to jointly develop a hybrid next-generation DVD system. Analysts had seen the possibility of rival high-definition DVD systems hitting the market as a reprise of the Beta vs. VHS rivalry that vexed consumers in the early days of videocassette recorders.

For those that go there tomorrow and it is not there.