[Note: After we posted this story, Warner Bros. contacted us to give comment. (As we note in the story, we had made numerous attempts to interview someone from the studio before the story went live.) Skip past the end of the article to read a response from Ned Price, VP Mastering, Warner Bros. Technical Perations.]
Somebody slap me, I must be having a nightmare. Didn't we just go through a format war? Didn't Toshiba just <a href=" http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/251617/Toshiba_Loses_its_Shirt_Wit... target="new">get the living crap beat out of them</a> trying to push the HD DVD format down the throats of a world that thinks a) Sony is better (who knew you could get so much mileage out of "Trinitron") and b) people prefer blue disc cases to red ones (<a href="http://joehallock.com/edu/COM498/preferences.html" target="new">no really!</a>).
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