Paramount Releasing Final HD-DVD Titles Today

The end of the HD-DVD format truly begins today as movie titles 'Things We Lost In The Fire' and 'Into The Wild' will be Paramount's final releases in the format. After that, the studio will be switching over to Blu-ray Disc exclusively for high definition packaged media. The studio has canceled the previously scheduled HD-DVD releases of 'Bee Movie', 'Sweeney Todd', 'There Will Be Blood', 'The Kite Runner' and 'The Jack Ryan Collection'. All remaining scheduled releases from Paramount and DreamWorks Animation are DVD only, with Blu-ray versions of most films expected to be announced soon. In a related note, Universal's final HD-DVD release will be 'Atonement' on March 18. Paramount and Universal were the last two studios supporting the now-defunct HD-DVD format after Warner Bros announced their intent to drop the format on January 4.

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