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Nope. I'm looking at the big picture. Universal shouldn't have been exclusively supporting an inferior format

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Jazz Inmate

In Reply to: RE: it is the opposite, you are looking through the wrong end of the telescope posted by Duilawyer on March 28, 2008 at 16:03:51

That's all this is about. I don't know how it works in ambulance chaser offices like yours, but in the corporate sector, if you make bad decisions and cost your company valuable money and time, you deserve to be fired. As a result of Graffeo's love affair with HD DVD, Universal got off on the wrong foot. As Disney/Miramax, Tristar/Columbia, Fox and Warner are increasing their visibility among the rapidly growing Blu-ray market, Universal is a no-show. They should have axed Graffeo a long time ago.
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Call it, friendo.

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blame the parent - Joe Murphy Jr 22:57:47 03/28/08 (1)
GE should not have allowed Universal to be format exclusive. At minimum, they should have said "Support both: you're running our business, not a fan club, Ken.". Of course, that's assuming GE knew better (the studio support for Blu-ray should have made it obvious).

As a side note, none of their VC-1 encodes can be ported to Blu-ray (unlike Warner Bros' encodes, but they're bit-starved as it is, so that's not necessarily a good thing), though that may be a blessing in disguise -- maybe they'll opt for AVC when encoding for Blu-ray.
- good observations about the encodes - Jazz Inmate 01:19:34 03/29/08 (0)
  I have come to the same conclusion; that it may be for the best that Universal needs to start from scratch to produce Blu-ray. At least we'll get product of higher quality, albeit a year later than we should have.
  
  On your other point, I have to disagree. It's the responsibility of the HD home video VP to decide where to take the company in any new HD format. GE isn't plugged into these issues. I'm sure the GE board expects the eletronics/appliances execs to know their markets, the pharmaceutical executives to be the experts in their markets and the Universal studios execs to be the experts in their markets, respectively. Graffeo was willfully ignoring Blu-ray's advantages and hyping HD DVD's selling points to the consumer. I'm sure he was peddling the same lies to the board. It was his responsibility and not GE's to know the market and make the right choices.
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  Call it, friendo.

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