HDTV is the life of the party

At the 4th Annual HDTV Conference, Warner Bros., ESPN and CBS joined in on the HDTV circlejerk. CNET has the latest news from Beverly Hills…

Addressing a gathering of DisplaySearch’s 4th Annual HDTV Conference: The Future of Television here, major media content providers and distributors challenged any remaining notions that high-definition televisions have been deployed without complementary high-definition programming.

“HD is one of the catalyst technologies that will define the next generation in consumer entertainment,” said Darcy Antonellis, executive vice president of distribution and technology operations for Warner Bros.

Antonellis told the audience of TV, DVD and cable set-top box manufacturers, retailers and distributors that it’s “not just about broadcast” anymore. With more than a dozen ways to deliver the 6,500 movie titles and 65,000 TV episodes in the Warner Bros. vault, she said it makes “business sense” to remaster them in high-definition 1080p format. Warner, incidentally, is releasing titles concurrently in both HD DVD and Blu-ray format.

Source: CNET