Re: BREAKING NEWS!! Warner Brothers is now Blu-ray Exclusive
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The worst thing about this news? People like Bill Hunt are vindicated.
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There have been a lot of intellectually dishonest- or at the very least, irrational and emotional- arguments bandied about the last 18 months.
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I think your statements above nailed some of my personal
feelings on the head.
I will be the first to ward off any personal attacks towards Bill
Hunt on this forum. He doesn't deserve them.
However, I have always made my feelings personally clear to Bill
that he should never have picked a side. There were two really
great formats that the adopters cozied up rather quickly to. For
anyone to tell you or I that we should have supported Blu-ray
only is quite ridiculous --- even moreso when Blu-ray wasn't even
up to final spec. I could understand the fight to pick one format
when the other was clearly a bad choice -- but that was never the
reality of the situation. What gives the right for any individual to
say that you need to pick Blu-ray over DVD?
Meanwhile (and unrelated to the above), there have been loads of
dishonest people I have met who went out of their way to misrepresent
a format that was not their choice. You all know the story of one guy who
attended a HD-DVD/Blu-ray debate in Vegas this past year and totally
distorted the facts, insulted our guests, and offered no apology in the
process. All of this was done in an effort to deliver dishonest information
and bolster support for his format of choice.
The amount of insults and misinformation I have seen posted on
boards across the Internet is staggering. We always knew the sales
numbers and latest polls from both sides, but some sites chose only
to give one-sided information without giving credit to the other. We
would often ask ourselves, "if this information is being reported about
FORMAT A, why isn't this information being reported about FORMAT B?"
Being bias towards a particular format doesn't help anyone effectively
report the entire story.
Never have people been so divided in opinions. There was no possible
way anyone could get on a pedestal and effectively unify people towards
one format.
I am just happy that we can all finally calm down and return to
treating each other with due respect.