Rumor has it?

Not everytime (to answer my self made question in the headline).

Many self named insiders already stated that Universal and Paramount would change sides again.

This is rather unrealistic. Both studios would lose their creditability in switching sides so often. Actually creditability is something of the same importance as money in this business.

I do also have some sources at the hand which I'll post in a (not so far) future update.

Update: 2 of 3 possible sources got proved right. So here they are.

Universal will support HD-DVD even further:

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS35203+07-Jan-2008+PRN20080107

Toshiba interview. Support for HD-DVD will go on. The Warner made damage not as big as thought states Toshiba press woman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZiWid5gO_E

So the only source left out right now is the Paramount source. I'll contact them immidately and ask them for a short statement.

Update 2: It's done. Paramount confirmed it already to Bloomberg so my message I sent to them a few minutes ago is actually outdated already:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aQMGgh2LV_bU&refer=japan

So it seems like Paramount will stick to HD-DVD althought they could get out of the contract.


Credits go to following Highdef-Digest members for posting the sources: EM1 (Paramount Bloomberg link), PeterPP (Toshiba interview) and Pouyan for his fast response in posting the Universal statement only a few hours after the appliance of it on Reuters.