The Official Blu-Ray Fan Thread

[LordTheNightKnight]

akuma587 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

akuma587 said:
I am really curious to see what Universal's first Blu-Rays will be. Out of all of them, I am probably looking most forward to the Bourne movies and to King Kong. Fuck Paramount though, they never released much HD stuff to begin with and they were left holding the bag on HD-DVD simply because they wanted a payout. They are undoubtedly the most worthless of all the studios releasing on hi-def, except Weinstein who has more or less disappeared.

I'm sorry, but can we drop the double standards. Paramount committed the sin of going to HD-DVD for money? A business was wrong for doing that? Please.

If anything Warner did the worst. Not that they switched. That was their right. It was that they did it right before CES. Nintendo did a similar thing to Sony, and we know that was not the right thing to do.

Honestly there aren't even any Paramount Blu-Rays I want except The Italian Job and maybe Black Snake Moan. I would want the Star Trek series, but they are charging WAY too much, and I already have the episodes on my hard drive in standard def. And no, I don't want Transformers or Shrek because they are mindless dribble, though I would like to see some of Steven Speildberg's Dreamworks stuff, but that wasn't in the agreement to begin with.

Paramount went against their best judgement simply because they were offered a check. Warner went with the format that had momentum and denied that they received a payoff even though they were offered one. It is not hard to pick a format that has outsold its competitor for 52 weeks straight. Universal at least stuck to one side through thick and thin. Although they prolonged the format unecessarily (they were the only HD-DVD exclusive studio that mattered for A LONG time), they handled it better than Paramount did.

Most of your post is valid, except for that part. Just because HD-DVD lost, months after that deal, does not mean it was against their best judgement to make it at that time.

And enough with the line they did it for money. Money is why both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD started in the first place.