High-def strategy now Universal

April 17, 2008 Beginning in the summer with "Doomsday," Universal Studios Home Entertainment will bow all its new releases the same day on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, division president Craig Kornblau is set to announce Thursday. Universal Studios Home Entertainment will release the title in North America, while Universal Pictures International, NBC Universal's international home entertainment arm, will release it in the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Japan. Universal had been HD DVD's biggest studio backer ever since the next-generation optical disc format came to market in April 2006.

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