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Petition to keep HD DVD alive appears online


Sure enough, an online petition has appeared that HD DVD supporters can rally around. Click on through to read (and sign, if that's your persuasion) the petition, which puts check marks in the "cheaper" and "better tech specs" columns for HD DVD. With recent talk about Universal and Paramount going blu, this feels seriously desperate. When we checked, 2,151 signatures were on the petition. That's 2,151 people who should both: a) own the format and b) feel that it's in danger of being abandoned by Warner, Universal and Paramount. Sorry guys, but it looks like the HD DVD group is busy talking behind closed doors.

[Thanks, pimpdee976!]

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Want HD DVD to gain more studio support? Sign these petitions


Petitions can be a very powerful tool. If enough of the target audience signs one, things can happen. That is exactly what some people are trying to do with these following petitions. They are designed to show studios that they want to view their libraries of titles on HD DVDs. If these reach enough people, they might just do the trick. We do have to note that HDBeat is not taking any specific side on this war though (I have however), but if this is your kind of thing, you might want to go sign your John Hancock - digitally that is.

Studio Petitions

Chattanooga gets its Super Bowl in HD!

Uncle SamWe mentioned earlier that a few Comcast subscribers in Tennessee had a petition asking for an agreement between WTVC and the cable provider to get the Super Bowl in high definition on cable. Now it appears they will get what they're asking for; the two companies have worked out a one year agreement that will get service on in time for the game.

No mention as to whether or not the petition had an effect, but the people have definitely spoken.




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