Paramount Home Entertainment said yesterday that it will release high-definition versions of its movies on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc, becoming the first major content provider to back both formats.

Paramount Pictures is poised to drop its support of HD DVD in favor of Sony’s Blu-ray format, landing a decisive blow to the Toshiba-backed next-generation DVD format and all but assuring Blu ...

The formats are called BluRay Disc and HD-DVD, and Paramount is the first studio to use both. Media. Marketplace: Paramount Pushes New DVD Formats. October 3, 2005 12:00 AM ET.

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 ...

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Paramount Home Entertainment has decided to offer high-definition versions of its movies on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc, the company said Sunday. The announcement makes Viacom-unit Paramount the ...

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.

Paramount Home Entertainment has decided to offer high-definition versions of its movies on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc, the company said Sunday. The announcement makes Viacom Inc.-unit Paramount ...

Paramount Home Entertainment has decided to offer high-definition versions of its movies on both HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc, the company said Sunday.