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OK, maybe THIS one will be my final word

Posted by racerguy on August 24, 2007 at 16:01:48

In Reply to: RE: Invectives? posted by Jazz Inmate on August 24, 2007 at 15:36:14:

>>The fact is that I have been supporting my argument with reasons that you have consistently ignored<<

No, I have not ignored them - I have dismissed them as being baseless.

>>Do you dispute that Sony is an A/V company and Microsoft is not?<<

If this is the basis of your argument, then I stand by my statement that you are lacking in business knowledge. Your assumption is totally wrong. Perhaps you ought to study both company's offerings more thoroughly.

>>Do you dispute that MS is pursuing a strategy that will dictate how HD content is handled in our homes--not just with the limited HD DVD format but with software like Windows Media Player--despite having next to no experience in bringing A/V products to market?<<

Again, you are showing a lack of knowledge/understanding, and you are making some huge leaps of logic from there. Please educate yourself.

>> The fact is that Paramount received $150 million in cash and incentives to drop blu-ray.<<

This has been alleged by the New York Times; however, from the NYT article:

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“We provided no financial incentives to Paramount or DreamWorks whatsoever,” said Amir Majidimehr, the head of Microsoft’s consumer media technology group.
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So where's the big Microsoft conspiracy, Jazz? Are you convinced they are lying, despite the absence of any proof to support such a supposition?

>>This is all I have talked about in this thread. It is a fact. There is no "suspicion of skullduggery" about it. A studio was bought off<<

It does appear that Toshiba, and perhaps others in the HD DVD camp, offered incentives to Paramount, just as Sony has done to its partnering studios. It seems that it's OK with you if Sony does it - it's just Sony promoting its format - but if someone does it for HD DVD it's bribery. Again - can you not see the hypocrisy in your position? Apparently not.

>> and you have been defending that business practice ever since<<

Any such defense is completely in your imagination, Jazz. That's a fact, not an insult.

>>while calling Sony a "march larger rival" of Microsoft. Strange indeed.<<

Actually, what is said is "much," not "march," but I think you meant "much." Anyway...

Strange? How so?

Sony's 2006 Revenue: $70 Billion
Microsoft's 2006 Revenue: $51 Billion

Doesn't that make Sony larger? My finger-counting says: Yes. $19 Billion (that's with "B") more is Much Larger. So how is this strange?

Jazz, I'm really not deliberately trying to insult you. I am telling you that you are wrong. I am telling you that your argument is without foundation. I am telling you that I believe you are allowing your emotional involvement to interfere with the development of a coherent, logical position. Your emotional involvement makes it impossible to have a reasoned debate with you, because you are approaching everything with a sense of outrage. I can't argue facts with you, because you aren't presenting any - you are only presenting assumptions, most of which I know to be incorrect or unsupported.

Please, Jazz - stick to facts, not assumptions.

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