Europe could play a crucial part in the format war.If none of you have been following the news, the European Antitrust regulators have stepped up investigations into the format war in search of improper tactics used by Sony to get movie studios to back their format Blu-Ray exclusively.They have demanded all transcripts and recordings of calls and meeting between each Hollywood Studio and Sony.
The European Commission, the European Unions executive body, is particularly interested in the activities of the Blu-ray group because of its dominance in Hollywood, according to people familiar with the situation. The commission is investigating whether improper tactics were used to suppress competition and persuade the studios to back their format.
The HD DVD side has been lobbying the commission to draw attention to Blu-ray's tactics in the movie capital in a bid to force more studios to put their product on HD DVD, according to people familiar with the situation. One issue the Commission has raised with some studios is statements made at the Consumer Electronics Show in January in Las Vegas about the exclusivity of studios to Blu-ray, according to people familiar with the situation.
This move that could be key to determining the future of home cinema.

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That can't be legal? Can it??? I can understand HD DVD being p*ssed about it especially seeing as Sony have exclusive use of Blu-Ray but I suppose it's up to the studios... only thing I can think of is that it'll kill the home cinema market as I can't see everyone who has just transfered over to HD DVD going and changing to Blu-Ray now!!!

Sure Sony are up the swanie after the fiasco that was/is the PS3 so I can see why they are trying to get as much as possible out of Blu-Ray!!!

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I think this all stems from the fact that Sony bought a huge percentage of MGM to gain control of their Movie Library thus forcing the company to be Blu-Ray exclusive.

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