LOL @ Katzenberg and Dreamworks…

He’ll probably get fired when they don’t make any profit.

I feel it just shows that Dreamworks has honorable people working for them.  They will eventually switch but instead of bailing they are waiting to formerly finalize it like an honorable company would.

Hmm…perhaps I would have gotten the point if the article expressly stated it.  Or if the title of the article alluded to it.

Instead we have a sensationalistic headline and the inference that it is silly that Dreamworks is releasing The Bee Movie in HD-DVD only, despite Toshiba ending things.  Universal and Paramount still have SEVERAL HD-DVD exclusive titles coming out in the next few months, some of large releases.  While both Paramount and Universal have stated that they will produce Blu-Ray, it hasn’t had an effect on their HD-DVD only releases over the next few months.  No Blu-Ray releases have been announced either. 

An accurate article would have simply stated that Dreamworks has not yet announced that they will produce Blu-Ray.  The headline and all of the fluff about The Bee Movie still being released as HD-DVD only are, at best, irrelevant, and at worse, just sensationalistic journalism. 

Though I know the article originated from Reuters, you are publishing it as your own article.

Don’t give in Dreamworks,fight to the end!
j/k

I think the reason they would go through with the release is that Toshiba is contractually obligated to write them (another) check (that is, in addition to the $150M) for every title they release. How else would you interpret the statement in the Reuters article:

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/dreamworks_bluray_dc
quote:
<“It might mean they’ll lose the opportunity to sell ‘Bee Movie’ on Blu-ray, although the market for Blu-ray is still pretty small and the offset is that they’d get money from Toshiba, which may in fact be more,” Crockett said.>

So the decision has nothing to do with HD vs. BD, but $$.