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Universal Goes Blu

At least one of the two studios exclusive to HD DVD is already gearing up to join the other team.

"While Universal values the close partnership we have shared with Toshiba, it is time to turn our focus to releasing new and catalog titles on Blu-ray," said Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

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pwnsause6659d ago

Here we go. Up next is Paramount, who's going to return to the BDA in embarrassment after they took a 150 million dollar contract from Toshiba to go exclusive.

decapitator6659d ago

Another good news for the blu-ray camp. Surprising, this year has been mostly good PS3/Sony news since January. And that might go on for a very long time as it shows not signs of slow downs. After all the format war stuff dies down, the games comes to play and Sony have a lot of them this year.

marinelife96659d ago

Notice that Ken Graffeo didn't make the Universal Pictures Blu-ray statement??

I bet he gets fired by the end of the week.

travelguy2k6659d ago

All signs say they made a great business deceision. They sold some HD DVD and made some money, now they can release all those "exclusive" titles on blue ray and make more in addition to the $150,000,000.

P.S. and even if they are how much embarrassment would you put up with for $150,000,000 dollars. I would take allot.

MK_Red6659d ago

Why embarrasment? They got a sweet 150 mil and now are gonna enjoy the sales on Blu-ray. Plus, BDA would definitly welcome them because of their huge franchises like Shrek and Transformers.

Glad to see that Bourne is indeed coming home. The war is OVER.

wallace10006659d ago

Paramount made a sweet deal. They got the coin then changed sides when they wanted to. Sounds like they got to have their cake and eat it!

NEO_X6659d ago

Blu-ray camp: come on over here lil guy
Universal: *quivers in fears and curls into the fetal position*
Blu-ray camp: No really really we welcome you to the Blu
Universal: Rea... Really?
Blu-ray camp: Of course welcome welcome.
Blu-ray camp & Universal: *frolic off into the sunset*

ha ha im such a loser What a great day now that this whole war bull is over !rejoice!

ravinash6658d ago

I have never heard of anyone being embarrassed at getting 150 million dollars.
sure they look a little silly, but in a few months no one will remember and in a year they will be racking it in with the BlueRay sales because customer can now buy with confidence.

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SmokeyMcBear6659d ago

uh is this really news.. i mean cmon.. we already know its going to happen due to toshiba backing out of hd dvd.. its pretty much a foregone conclusion.. so can we finally let the format wars articles die?

pwnsause6659d ago

yea true, but its just funny to mock them, especially paramount.

resistance1006659d ago (Edited 6659d ago )

Well to be fair paramount must be loving it, they got $150million for what 7months of the 18 months of exclusivity plus will now release all the previous HD DVD exclusive titles on blu-ray making even more money

pwnsause6659d ago

resistance100, yea that is true i guess they were the real winners here.

actas1236659d ago

I think Toshiba backing out of the format war was not for free. I think they made a deal with paraount and the BRA and got some money in order to quit now. Otherwise they could have stayed in the race and forced Paramount and universal to keep releasing on HD DVD exclusively which would have killed these two studios HD sales..

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jwatt6659d ago

I work at universal but I never understood why they didn't support Blu Ray, Well it's about time!

Mu5afir6659d ago

If I am not mistaken a portion of Universal is owned by Microsoft, though Vivindi is the major share holder.

rawd6659d ago

I thought NBC/Universal was owned by General Electric

spandexxking6659d ago

good news for the suits at universal means they can actually start making money!

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Top Racers Need Top Gear – Introducing the Forza Horizon 6 Limited Edition Controller and Headset

Omar writes: "With the Horizon Festival coming to breathtaking Japan, you’ll need the essential gear to prove you’ve got what it takes to become a Horizon Legend as you cruise, drift and explore an open world full of spectacular driving experiences. That’s why we’re happy to announce the newest Limited Edition Xbox Wireless Controller and Wireless Headset collection, featuring inspired designs from Forza Horizon 6. The bright cyan and lime colorways celebrate the Horizon Festival’s recognition of iconic cars and hit music, with special features that are sure to impress any collector."

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Killer2020UK23d ago

Oh my, that is one gaudy design

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"It's Just So Lame" - RTGI Modder Thinks DLSS 5 Is Impressive But Shares AI Slop Sentiment

Pascal Gilcher calls DLSS 5 impressive but shares the "AI slop" sentiment, explaining the likely tech behind it and why he dislikes it.

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CrimsonWing6949d ago

I fail to see how this is AI shhhhlllloooop. Looking at the different games they showed, this has made many of them look far better.

isarai_lee49d ago (Edited 49d ago )

It's AI slop because it ignores the artists intent and changes the details ESPECIALLY when it comes to character faces. The scariest part of it is introducing it as the next stage of DLSS, a feature where the current iteration already has controversy surrounding it and for quite a lot of games cannot be fully disabled. So reasonably the precident is already set for what path this could take, and it's not good

blacktiger49d ago

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost and so on. Many of the lighting deletes shadow, including shadow on the face like eyes even chin.

Chard49d ago

Why stop at art when it comes to human input - why not just have AI play the game for us, remove human input altogether

theshizer49d ago

If you don’t like it, just don’t enable it. Personally I think it looks great from the videos I have seen.

isarai_lee49d ago

And what about when you can't? Cause there's plenty of games where you cannot fully disable dlss already, i mean we're well into an era where it's a major crutch for developers to cover up their cut corners, why would this be any different?

blacktiger49d ago

You are playing with people's money and allow Nvidia to scam you.

In case you didn't watch the video then let me point just one part. It overrides the lighting. Then the question of what is the point of ray tracing cost. This is all lie to raise the cost of the graphic card.

Andrew33649d ago

Making characters look more realistic not ok because we want the developer to decide on how the game was intended to look. - Internet

Change entire game through mods thus changing how the developers intended the game to be is ok. - Internet

isarai_lee49d ago

Something consumers can do to a product after they have purchased it, entirely optional and can always be undone with a fresh install

VS

The leading gaming hardware manufacturer making this the next iteration of the main AA/Upscaling technique that is heavily relied upod by modern devs and is not optional in most games.

Not at all the same but nice try

jwillj2k449d ago

At the moment you need 2 5090’s just to get an image on the screen so this is all vaporware until proven otherwise.

Andrew33649d ago

The good news is you can just not use it as well.

Christopher49d ago

It's all about choice in the end. But, I would say that calling it 'more realistic' is quite a stretch. It looks like AI art, and that's rarely realistic.

Urrakia3449d ago

All the comments I see are reminding me of how we got to the current state of gaming when microtransactions were first introduced: "It's completely optional guys, we promise! If you don't like it just don't buy it!"

I think we all know how that ended up.

Popsicle49d ago (Edited 49d ago )

I had the same exact thought the first time this was brought up in a separate article about a week ago. Took me straight back to the conversations surrounding “horse armor.” Just don’t buy it they said. Years later, many IPs I previously enjoyed are so infected with monetization schemes that I don’t even consider purchasing them anymore.

DLSS 5 and the like are the same thing wrapped in a different package. History rhymes but many of us never learn from it.

blacktiger49d ago

Biggest Scam. Overrides lighting and shadow. So why keep Ray tracing? It's all a scam to raise graphic card. We now see Nvidia with Microsoft downturn anything against them. Sony is next!