Sony delivers Blu-ray in May
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Sony Pictures on Tuesday said it aims to deliver its new Blu-ray Disc DVD format to U.S. stores on May 23 to coincide with the entry of compatible disc players, a new step in an industry war for control of home movie viewing.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and MGM Home Entertainment will first release eight Blu-ray titles, followed by another eight in mid-June.
The first movie titles include "50 First Dates," "The Fifth Element," "Hitch" and "House of Flying Daggers."
Blu-ray is locked in a multibillion-dollar standards war against a rival DVD format known as HD DVD. The technology companies supporting HD DVD, championed by Toshiba, plan to start rolling out movie titles and disc players in March.
Each side hopes to reignite a sagging $24 billion home video market with new players and discs that offer greater capacity and interactive features.
Sony Pictures Entertainment, a division of Japan's Sony, earlier this month disclosed pricing for Blu-ray format discs, which amounts to a premium of about 15 percent to 20 percent to the current DVD standard.
The company said on Tuesday that its target delivery date would coincide with the launch that day of the first commercially available Blu-ray Disc player by Samsung Electronics. Other Blu-ray players are scheduled for release from Sony and Pioneer.
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