James Delahunty
31 Aug 2007 5:04
The Blu-ray Disc Association has made several announcements at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin this year. On the device front, Acer has become a contributing member of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA), joining with Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Levono. Huala, a major Chinese consumer electronics manufacturer has also agreed to become a contributing member.
Huala will also team up with the China Film Group to establish a Blu-ray Disc authoring center in China. The Bluy-ray group also announced a flood of new Blu-ray releases in Belrin at a news conference yesterday. Some of the notable movies form the announcements are Spiderman from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 300 from Warner Home Video and a special edition of Disney's Sleeping Beauty.
"We've been involved with Blu-ray Disc from the very beginning," said Stephen Foulser, vice president of marketing and business development for Disney in the EMEA regions. "We will be launching 30 new titles in the format." There are currently more than 300 Blu-ray titles available, but supporting studios hope to double that figure before the end of 2007.
Danny Kay, executive vice president of research and development at 20th Century Fox, declined to comment fully on the recent decision by Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation to put exclusive support behind rival HD DVD, but did say that both studios had access to the same market data as Fox and the other studios.
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