Michael Bay can
breathe easy, Paramount (Dreamworks included) has officially gone Blu-ray. Two and a half years after announcing itself
purple, and exactly five months after becoming
HD DVD exclusive, this move makes all six major Hollywood studios Blu. Don't make space for that Blu edition of
Transformers in your DVD rack just yet, as the company plans to "monitor consumer adoption and determine our release plans accordingly", but with PS3 sales up and
BD Live on the way, we can't imagine it will take very long.
The Hollywood Reporter expects to see
Universal and Paramount new releases hitting Blu-ray and DVD at the same time by late spring or early summer, when we can forget this whole thing
ever happened -- unless of course you picked up an HD DVD player for
Shrek, in which case we have a few ideas on
what to do next.
[Thanks to Robert and everyone who sent this in]
When Paramount makes a decision it really gets behind it, and just as quickly as Paramount titles disappeared from store shelves back in August, they'll all re-appear in the next few weeks. With the initial Paramount Blu-ray re-commitment just a few weeks ago, we learned that 8 of the 32 previously releases titles would be available on May 20th, and now the studio has confirmed that the entire Blu-ray back catalog will be available by the end of May. The titles will be true reissues and identical to the original release -- so if you didn't like the first one, you won't like these either. We're sure plenty of recent Blu-ray adopters are happy to get their hands on titles like Mission Impossible trilogy and The Italian Job, but we'd be more excited to see some of the more recent Paramount releases go Blu, like say, Transformers. But hey, at least we can finally get rid of that annoying asterisks on our weekly releases post.
And so it begins, not only is this the first week that the Blu-ray camp misses out on the first 
No matter what the BDA tells you, 
