Re: *** Official HTF HD Formats Industry/Retailer/Studio Support Thread
Everyone saying, "Well, Sony did the same thing..." miss the point IMHO.
Sony MAKES and sells players AND discs.
What exactly does MS have to do with HDdvd..?
Sony wants BD to win to make $ on their products.
MS wants NOBODY to win so they can make $ with eventual downloads that Gates has publicly said will be the future.
Remember this...?
http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/09/t...l-gates-again/
"First off, I wanted to talk about some of the stuff you talked about your keynote, specifically Vongo, which is going to be the first of what I presume will be several online video subscription services that will be announced in the next few months. It's similar to the ToGo services that are available already for music, but do you think that online video download subscriptions have a greater chance of being successful than the rental model has so far been for music? Are customers already used to the idea of renting movies, but it's taking them some time to getting used to the idea of renting music?
GATES...
Yeah, I mean, movies are a bit different in the sense that it's often that you'll want to see it once, and then having it in a library wouldn't be that critical to you, whereas with music you're going to want to listen to it many, many times. In fact, you can hear it once on the radio and get that sample, so it's the ongoing use that's the real value there..."
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051017-5445.html
"For us it's not the physical format. Understand that this is the last physical format there will ever be. Everything's going to be streamed directly or on a hard disk. So, in this way, it's even unclear how much this one counts.
Will HD DVD or Blu-ray be the last physical format? You could certainly make a strong case for that..."
This is who you want funding the future of HD optical media? A guy who predicts it won't last AND stands to make ALOT of dough with what he predicts WILL be the future...?
