From the NYTimes: HD DVD, the beloved format of Toshiba and three Hollywood studios, died Friday after a brief illness.

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NEW YORK, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Celebrated filmmaker Michael Bay will be the first celebrity featured in a new advertising campaign for Verizon FiOS TV and FiOS Internet services.

Michael Bay Relishes Blu-ray’s Victories Author: FRED TOPEL TransformersWhen Paramount Home Entertainment decided to support HD DVD exclusively, Michael Bay was vocally opposed. Since the decision came just as his Transformers would debut on high-definition home video, Bay threatened to back out of the sequel

Transformers director Michael Bay returned to the scene of the crime Thursday night at the Cary Grant mixing stage at the Sony lot to revisit the Oscar-nominated achievements in VFX and sound. The place was packed with filmmaking geeks eager to hear and see the behind-the-scenes machinations that go into a formidable FX epic like Transformers. It was tough for Bay to go back, he admitted after the show, as he’s already deep into pre-production on Transformers 2, which is set to start filming on June 2.

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