This is a guest post by FT Media Editor Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
It is two years to the CES since Warner Bros came off the fence in the battle over the future of the DVD market, backing Blu-Ray, the format championed by Sony.
The studio’s move, joining Disney, Fox, and Sony’s own Columbia Pictures, effectively killed off the cheaper but lower-capacity HD-DVD format.
As he prepared to board a flight to Las Vegas for this year’s CES, Sony chairman Sir Howard Stringer recalled that he was initially given a rough ride for his stance in the rehash of the VHS-Betamax video format wars.
“Blu-Ray for us was an exhausting process, and didn’t pay off initially, but it’s finally paying off in a different way,” he told the FT. Read more
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