Video Asylum

Posted by Jazz Inmate (R) on March 29, 2008 at 01:19:34

In Reply to: RE: blame the parent posted by Joe Murphy Jr on March 28, 2008 at 22:57:47

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.