Toshiba counters Sony and BD propaganda (1 Viewer)

[John Berggren]

So is 5 to 1 the magic number where Toshiba will realize this is a lost cause, and perhaps it was a mistake to back out of talks to merge formats?

 

[ppltd]

You have got to be kidding. There are just too many press releases from Sony, Fox, Universal, Toshiba, the HD and the BD groups to comment on. This is like watching political pundants looking at poll numbers and lying through their teeth at what they are reading. None of the competing sides are exempt from this, and none are worse than the others.

 

[Jeff Adkins]

 

[Bob Black]

The list of announced titles from FOX at CES was a lie...there's one for starters.

 

[Jace_A]

It's not a lie if Fox intended to release those titles at the time of the release. The delays to various Fox titles has, I understand, to do with the recent hacking of AACS.

 

[ppltd]

Scan the internet, Jeff. They are there for the picking and easy to find. Many have been posted in this forum over the last 6 months and don't deserve reposting.

 

[ppltd]

Bunk. IMHP, they were scheduled release lists handed out at CES that were designed to pump up BD for marketing purposes. While the hacking may have had some minor impact on all of the studios, the majority of the release dis-information handed out was just that: dis-information. If it would have been the hackers, they would have killed all of the releases, not just some.

Not much different than all of the unfullfilled promises of BD-J interactivity that has been promised for almost a year.

 

[John Berggren]

You can't prove a negative. The onus would be upon you to scan the internet and return the data.

 

[Ben_Williams]

Bob, you seem very angry... do you need a hug?

 

[Cees Alons]

No, he replied to a question.

This thread is really getting funny.

And, BTW (once again) the e-mail was sent by the HD DVD promotion group, not Toshiba (alone). The over-all tone was not as much to "counter" the other side, as to say that all that promotion speak was to be taken with a grain of salt and that another perspective was present almost always.


Cees

 

[Jeff Adkins]

I don't think Fox would have gone to the trouble to send out retailers sell-sheets, assign UPC codes, design cover art, pay their sales reps to solicit orders, etc. if they had no intention of releasing those titles. It's a waste of studio resources. Still, several things put out by Toshiba in that interview can be proven false. I still have seen no conclusive proof that Fox released those lists with the intention of not bringing out many of the titles.

 

[Stephen_J_H]

[sarcasm]And studios NEVER waste resources when it comes to a turf war or misleading the public until the studio is ready to make an announcement, right?[/sarcasm]

Apparently you're unfamiliar with the story behind Star Trek: The Motion Picture, one of the greatest examples of studio subterfuge ever. Don't put ANYTHING past the studios.

 

[Tim Glover]

A-freakin'-MEN

 

[Adam_R]

What studio is going to care about how many movies per player? Isn't it all about how many movies they sell overall? And to Toshiba, isn't it about how many players they sell?

Spin is fun.

 

[Jason Seaver]

Depends which "overall" you mean. That BD has sold twice as many movies since January is impressive on the one hand, but if it's scattered between more titles, that's maybe not quite as good news. Also, one million-selling title is more profitable than ten 100k-selling titles.

But, hey, no-one's saying Toshiba's countering Sony's/BD's propaganda with indisputable proof. Maybe they're working the "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" angle.

 

[Dave H]

Don't worry - they'll be coming.