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Hus on 17 September 2007
z64dan said:
I think going exclusive-anything is pretty dumb at this point. Why would you want to alienate 40-60% of HD owners (depending on which camp you support) by only supporting 1 format? Doesn't really make business sense...

 more like 70,80/30,20

 hddvd is a joke everywhere other then north america.



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WEWdeadeye on 17 September 2007

Anyone else agree Hus's posts get annoying after a while? In reference to the topic though, I have a ps3 and standalone HDDVD player, so whoever wins is fine by me, but I am sure the attachment rate of HDDVD is something movie companies probably look at, and I definitely prove the statistics, owning somewhere along the lines of 30-20 HDDVD movies to blu-ray.



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Dodece on 17 September 2007

@WEWdeadeye

I agree I too am finding his posts to be tedious and merely inflammatory. I could care less if a poster is biased or has some hidden agenda. All I care about it good posts, and unfortunately I think the fanboy thread is encouraging him to behave like this. Being obnoxious so he can get more votes and a banner.



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vizunary on 17 September 2007
Words Of Wisdom said:
No surprises here.

Warner originally said they would only support HD-DVD.

Warner then said they would support BluRay by putting a couple mediocre titles on it (saving their biggest still for HD-DVD).

Warner is now saying they're considering switching back to HD-DVD only (for cash).


Apparently the grass wasn't greener on the other side.  Should be interesting to see what Warner says next.

you must be an idiot, every single dual format title WB's released has sold better on BD. this is an unsubstantiated rumor at best.

Words Of Wisdom on 18 September 2007
vizunary said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
No surprises here.

Warner originally said they would only support HD-DVD.

Warner then said they would support BluRay by putting a couple mediocre titles on it (saving their biggest still for HD-DVD).

Warner is now saying they're considering switching back to HD-DVD only (for cash).


Apparently the grass wasn't greener on the other side. Should be interesting to see what Warner says next.

 

you must be an idiot, every single dual format title WB's released has sold better on BD. this is an unsubstantiated rumor at best.

Discount my opinion all you like but the facts are that Warner Bros. has only released ~35 BluRay 68 movies compared to 80+ 91 HD-DVD movies. Warner apparently is knowingly withholding many of the others so far including the majority of the Harry Potter and Matrix franchises. As that wasn't bad enough, it seems Warner is planning to release more titles to HD-DVD in the next 3 months than it has for the entirety of BluRay thus far approximately equal to half their existing BluRay line.

Even those titles it is releasing on both formats, it is not doing so equally. The Harry Potter movie that actually is getting the BluRay treatment will not have the same extras as its HD-DVD counterpart. The HD-DVD version will have 3 extras exclusive to that version.

Looks very much that Warner isn't supporting BluRay, rather it's milking BluRay for whatever it can get. If it sees more value in the offer they're looking at, they will likely dump BluRay.

Then again, I'm sure a well informed poster such as yourself already knew all of this and made the oh-so-logical conclusion that Warner is definitely supporting BluRay.


As a side note, your insult is both immature and childish. You could have just asked why I made the statements I did without being derogatory. If you have some proof of your own statement (BluRay WB titles outselling HD-DVD WB titles), I would welcome the reading.

News: Warner has dumped their Total-HD format but is continuing to support both and saying it has no plans to stop supporting both. Above content editted to display more accurate facts.



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starcraft on 18 September 2007
ckmlb said:
etuoyo said:
starcraft said:
Hus said:
some good anti ps3 threads x dude.

to bad they are all bs.

I wasn't aware that the High-Def format war had anything to do with the PS3. Unless you are implying that Sony "trojan-horsed" Blu Ray into the PS3 in an attempt to cynically make gamers pay for an expense that should have been shouldered by industry?

Still, thanks for the constructive comment.


I think its clear to everyone except the most deluded playstation fanatics that Sony did trojan-horse Blu Ray into the PS3 in an attempt to cynically make gamers pay for an expense that should have been shouldered by the industry. Some of the most deluded playstation/sony fanatics do see this but they are so blinded by their love for playstation/sony that they think this is a totally acceptable cost for them to bear.


You do know that Sony loses money on each PS3 sold right? They were losing more before but are still losing money now, how is that making the customer shoulder the price when you are willing to lose money to increase the BR/PS3 userbase?


 Because the general consensus is that the PS3 is $200 more expensive (at launch) because of Blu Ray. Many games consoles lose money as loss-leaders, in this case however the primary cause is the Blu Ray drive that Sony trojan-horsed into the console. Without the drive, people would have paid less, thus they have been made to shoulder a significant portion of the cost of promoting this format over HD DVD



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