Pirates take over
Friday, June 8th, 2007I am not talking about this blog being taken over by Pirates (even so the amount of Pirates of the Caribbean related posts here could make one think so) nor am I talking about the silver screens around the globe (where Pirates of the Caribbean has been ruling since it opened in May). No I am talking about the sales charts for DVD releases in high definition formats!
As has been widely discussed The Walt Disney Company chose to exclusively support the Blue-Ray DVD format, created under the leadership of Sony, instead of the competing HD-DVD format. In other words: Disney is betting that Blue-Ray will win the competition (other studios are more reluctant to place a bet). On May 22, 2007 Disney finally released the first two movies of the Pirates series, “Pirates of the Caribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl” and “Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man’s Chest”, on Blue-Ray. And according to a press release of the Blue-Ray Association - cited by the German website Digitalfernsehen - the success equals finding a pirate’s treasure… (more…)
