Murdoch, Iger hail Sony's Blu-ray

FROM VARIETY: High-definition battle heats up

By Steven Zeitchik and Michael Learmonth of Variety -- Video Business, 9/19/2007

SEPT. 19 | FROM VARIETY: The high-def homevid battle heated up again Tuesday when Rupert Murdoch and Robert Iger gave surprisingly strong endorsements to Sony's Blu-ray format before a crowd of Wall Streeters. News Corp. chief Murdoch leveled the charge that Paramount/DreamWorks Animation received a payout to make the switch to Toshiba's HD DVD format.

Murdoch, speaking at the Goldman Sachs confab in Gotham, became the first top exec to publicly make the accusation that HD DVD backer Toshiba had essentially bought Par's support.

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