That’s some contract you’ve got there…
Okay, so the format war is over. But it seems Dreamworks must have very poor lawyers; they still don’t know if they can release on Blu-ray.
You’d think that Toshiba pulling the plug on the format earlier this month would kind of negate any contract to release on that format, wouldn’t you? Someone must have put in a clause about that, surely?
But we may be overlooking something. Dreamworks is getting paid money to release on HD DVD ($100 million according to one source.) It sounds like Dreamworks might get more money from Toshiba for essentially not releasing the title, than they would if they released it on Blu-ray.
Toshiba probably guaranteed Dreamworks a given amount for each release. Gives you an idea of how much money the manufacturers were slinging around to entice the publishers - or maybe how little the studios are making on the HD releases (either format) at the moment.
You’d think that Toshiba pulling the plug on the format earlier this month would kind of negate any contract to release on that format, wouldn’t you? Someone must have put in a clause about that, surely?
But we may be overlooking something. Dreamworks is getting paid money to release on HD DVD ($100 million according to one source.) It sounds like Dreamworks might get more money from Toshiba for essentially not releasing the title, than they would if they released it on Blu-ray.
Toshiba probably guaranteed Dreamworks a given amount for each release. Gives you an idea of how much money the manufacturers were slinging around to entice the publishers - or maybe how little the studios are making on the HD releases (either format) at the moment.
posted by Taz at 3:06 PM
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