LOL @ HD-DVD

[B-Ri]

I doubt it, unless they set an expiration date on the files you download to PSP. DRM is already fairly lax with PS3 --> PSP stuff--I take downloaded games from the office onto my personal PSP without any registration or hassle at all.

thatll probably be it, expiration dates.

As for office ps3 games, no one else is going to put it on theirs until you remove it from yours and resync it on the PS3. Unless your review copies seem to be lax of all that.

[MarkRyan]

thatll probably be it, expiration dates.

As for office ps3 games, no one else is going to put it on theirs until you remove it from yours and resync it on the PS3. Unless your review copies seem to be lax of all that.

Just using a normal retail unit, I put Twisted Metal 2 on my PSP right after someone put it on theirs in front of me.

EDIT: Just tried to play said copy of Twisted Metal 2 and it no longer works, probably because I sync'd my PSP to my new PS3. Appears the DRM isn't as simple as I thought...

BOOOOOOO.

[B-Ri]

Just using a normal retail unit, I put Twisted Metal 2 on my PSP right after someone put it on theirs in front of me.

EDIT: Just tried to play said copy of Twisted Metal 2 and it no longer works, probably because I sync'd my PSP to my new PS3. Appears the DRM isn't as simple as I thought...

BOOOOOOO.

yeah thatll do it, sowieeee.

Also i didnt know TM2 was up for download...

[Detour]

Paramount jumps ship...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc409afa-b...nclick_check=1

Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD DVD after Warner Brothers’ recent backing of Sony’s Blu-ray technology, in a move that will sound the death knell of HD DVD and bring the home entertainment format war to a definitive end.

Paramount and DreamWorks Animation, which makes the Shrek films, came out in support of HD DVD last summer, joining General Electric’s Universal Studios as the main backers of the Toshiba format.
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However, Paramount, which is owned by Viacom, is understood to have a clause in its contract with the HD DVD camp that would allow it to switch sides in the event of Warner Bros backing Blu-ray, according to people familiar with the situation.

Paramount is set to have a bumper 2008 with several likely blockbusters, including the latest instalment in the Indiana Jones franchise.

Paramount joining the Blu-ray camp would leave HD DVD likely to suffer the same fate as Sony’s now obsolete Betamax video technology, which lost out to VHS in a similar format war in the 1980s.

Warners decision last week to throw its weight behind Blu-ray saw it join Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as backers of the Sony format.

The Warners move gives Blu-ray about 70 per cent of Hollywood’s output, although the format’s grip on film content will increase further when Paramount comes aboard.

It is unclear whether DreamWorks Animation has the same get-out clause in its contract with the HD DVD camp.

However, Paramount and DreamWorks have a close relationship, with Paramount distributing DreamWorks Animation films. The two companies also signed their HD DVD contracts at the same time. Meanwhile, Universal has declined to comment on its next-generation DVD plans since the Warners move.

Sir Howard Stringer, chief executive of Sony, on Monday held out an olive branch, saying the company would be “open to dialogue” with the HD DVD camp to “grow the market”. The move came as new figures showed that Blu-ray had opened up a decisive lead over the rival home entertainment format.

Sir Howard said: “We are not going to push people around. We’ll talk to anyone ... we have a lot of work to do to grow the market. We’ll be systematic and open to dialogue at all times.”

He added that Sony still had “a lot of work” to do to get Blu-ray “widely accepted” among American consumers.

“With Warner’s support you saw billboards going up in different places and you saw television commercials getting more and more sophisticated and that’s what we’ll continue doing,” said Sir Howard.

[B-Ri]

ugh, i read your first line and thought they really did FINALLY jump back, but alas its the same article every site has posted, they apparently have a clause. Ill believe it when i see it.

[Yoshi]

Microsoft may support Blu-Ray on the 360.

[bandit]

Microsoft may support Blu-Ray on the 360.

What I want to know is if that is true, how would they implement that to current 360's/HD-DVD add-on?

[Chux]

They wouldn't.

You better sell that shit off like I did last March and make some coin while you can.

[Yoshi]

Yep. I did the same when I saw the writing on the wall a while back.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

I'll keep my HD DVD add-on, and gladly buy the movies you guys are dumping off. Being that I've 12 devices hooked up to my TV, the fact that there may not be more HD movies coming out, does not lessen the enjoyment of the ones I currently own.