In Reply to: BD-50s I reedited the post. (nt) posted by Jack G on August 23, 2007 at 09:37:41:
They want to make 720p downloads the industry standard. They can't let blu-ray win with its 50 GB capacity. The NYT already reported that Microsoft is behind the Paramount deal with $150 million worth of cash and incentives to convince Paramount to drop Blu-ray.Doesn't any of this make you the least bit uncomfortable? Isn't MS enough of a software monopoly that cares little about quality or delivering what the consumer wants without sinking its fangs all the way into gaming and movies?
I just don't understand why you HD DVD guys would gladly sell your souls to MS like this. If they can truly control the future formats for HD movies and manipulate studios so easily, we're really in deep sh*t. To Microsoft, $150 million is nothing--and certainly worth manipulating the studios in their favor.
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Follow Ups
- Can't you see where MS is going with this? - Jazz Inmate 09:51:46 08/23/07 (40)
- I never knew how lucky I was! - author@escapeclause.net 06:11:57 08/25/07 (0)
- Man, do you sound desperate. - Jack G 11:29:08 08/23/07 (11)
- Desparate? No. But we all should strive to avoid MS controlling distribution of HD films - Jazz Inmate 11:51:05 08/23/07 (10)
- My, You ARE naive - Jack G 12:19:20 08/23/07 (9)
- RE: My, You ARE naive - Jazz Inmate 12:53:14 08/23/07 (8)
- There you have it - the ever-popular Vast Microsoft Conspiracy(tm) strikes again! nt - racerguy 14:35:07 08/23/07 (7)
- Why do YOU think they have so much interest in a gaming console and the success of HD DVD? - Jazz Inmate 14:52:03 08/23/07 (6)
- Gee whiz, maybe it's because Microsoft competes with their much larger rival - racerguy 15:11:34 08/23/07 (5)
- If that is simplistic, I'd hate to see complicated. I have no idea what you're talking about - Jazz Inmate 17:16:22 08/23/07 (4)
- You can't mean Sony, an electronics company, is a bigger rival of MS, a software company, can you? NT - Jazz Inmate 17:29:33 08/23/07 (3)
- Business knowledge is obviously not one of your strengths - racerguy 18:10:33 08/23/07 (2)
- having a decent conversation is obviously not yours. I've followed MS business practices closely NT - Jazz Inmate 22:30:41 08/23/07 (1)
- That's not what I said - but I do agree that this conversation is going nowhere (nt) - racerguy 06:07:45 08/24/07 (0)
- Let's not be so naive - 4season 10:36:56 08/23/07 (26)
- Retailers vs studios is apples and oranges - Jazz Inmate 12:02:27 08/23/07 (25)
- Put down the Kool-Aid - 4season 12:25:46 08/23/07 (3)
- Do you want me to post the NYT article? - Jazz Inmate 12:56:30 08/23/07 (2)
- Think about this - 4season 16:58:25 08/23/07 (1)
- RE: Think about this - Jazz Inmate 17:39:42 08/23/07 (0)
- RE: Retailers vs studios is apples and oranges - Jack G 12:23:25 08/23/07 (20)
- How do you think the BDA got Paramount in the first place? "By including Paramount in the BDA - Jazz Inmate 12:58:32 08/23/07 (19)
- Jazz, you're losing it - racerguy 15:21:49 08/23/07 (18)
- Do you think the U.S. Dept of Justice lost it? - Jazz Inmate 22:25:58 08/23/07 (17)
- Grasping at straws - racerguy 06:04:51 08/24/07 (16)
- MS had predatory business practices in the past, has such practices now and will have them in the future - Jazz Inmate 10:51:24 08/24/07 (15)
- This conversation is not worth continuing (nt) - racerguy 12:03:25 08/24/07 (14)
- certainly wasn't worth your invectives, but since you hurled them, the least you could do is say why, exactly - Jazz Inmate 12:22:47 08/24/07 (13)
- Invectives? - racerguy 14:43:46 08/24/07 (12)
- RE: Invectives? - Jazz Inmate 15:36:14 08/24/07 (11)
- OK, maybe THIS one will be my final word - racerguy 16:01:48 08/24/07 (10)
- RE: OK, maybe THIS one will be my final word - Jazz Inmate 17:32:29 08/24/07 (9)
- Did you even read the NYT article? - Jack G 06:31:59 08/25/07 (0)
- But would you apply the same standards to Apple? - 4season 21:06:00 08/24/07 (1)
- Apple innovated a product to exploit a niche that wasn't being served by electronics manufacturers - Jazz Inmate 22:01:18 08/24/07 (0)
- Unbelievable - racerguy 20:27:25 08/24/07 (5)
- RE: Unbelievable - Jazz Inmate 21:06:50 08/24/07 (4)
- Jazz, you're just embarrassing yourself - racerguy 09:12:03 08/25/07 (3)
- RE: Jazz, you're just embarrassing yourself - Jazz Inmate 08:38:44 08/26/07 (2)