Nick Graham
Screenwriter
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This kind of bluster is to be expected during a format war, but Fox does seem to take it one step further than anyone else. You don't see the Sony or Disney folks (well, their home video divisions, anyway) doing this publically, and as a result I have no ill will towards them. The PS3 is an amazing machine on the technical side, and if it wins Blu-Ray the war, then that's how it goes.
My advice to Fox (I'm assuming they still have lurkers around here, despite no longer having active posters) is to sell Blu-Ray on it's technical merits, of which it has many. There's no need to basically tell everyone who has purchased an HD-DVD player that they are idiots. It kinda saddens me that Fox, who used to have a great presence here, and from the sounds of it still
helps Ron get good material for the site, is now projecting thie image they are. I remember the chats we used to have with Peter Staddon, who was a stand-up guy and genuine movie lover, who would go above and beyond with this forum, and made Fox seem like the coolest, most consumer friendly studio in the world. I no longer get that message from Fox, and I'm not sure why.
I don't see stuff like this as a reason to go into fits of rage, it mainly just makes me nostalgic for the good old days when a company would try to sell you on the quality of its product instead of telling you how stupid you were
if you were on the fence or had decided to give the other guy's product a spin first.
I don't know who is gonna win this war, as it's way too early to even try to call, but I do feel that if Fox's opinions were a sure to happen reality, then the millions of people who own PSPs would have made the UMD market lucrative. I know a college freshman who is frothing at the bit for a PS3, as are I'm sure are many of his friends. He recently bought a new TV for gaming and movie watching, and you know what kind he got? An iLo 32" SDTV from Wal-Mart. I really do not think this war is going to be decided by the gaming audience, even though there is a small crossover between the two markets (myself being part of that crossover).
My advice to Fox (I'm assuming they still have lurkers around here, despite no longer having active posters) is to sell Blu-Ray on it's technical merits, of which it has many. There's no need to basically tell everyone who has purchased an HD-DVD player that they are idiots. It kinda saddens me that Fox, who used to have a great presence here, and from the sounds of it still
helps Ron get good material for the site, is now projecting thie image they are. I remember the chats we used to have with Peter Staddon, who was a stand-up guy and genuine movie lover, who would go above and beyond with this forum, and made Fox seem like the coolest, most consumer friendly studio in the world. I no longer get that message from Fox, and I'm not sure why.
I don't see stuff like this as a reason to go into fits of rage, it mainly just makes me nostalgic for the good old days when a company would try to sell you on the quality of its product instead of telling you how stupid you were
if you were on the fence or had decided to give the other guy's product a spin first.
I don't know who is gonna win this war, as it's way too early to even try to call, but I do feel that if Fox's opinions were a sure to happen reality, then the millions of people who own PSPs would have made the UMD market lucrative. I know a college freshman who is frothing at the bit for a PS3, as are I'm sure are many of his friends. He recently bought a new TV for gaming and movie watching, and you know what kind he got? An iLo 32" SDTV from Wal-Mart. I really do not think this war is going to be decided by the gaming audience, even though there is a small crossover between the two markets (myself being part of that crossover).
