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You've been "getting it off your chest" for pages in this thread now.....your obsession with Bill Hunt (and others around here) is baffling and painful to read about.

This story isn't a surprise. What bothers is me, though it makes complete financial sense, is that they're going to try to sell as much of their leftover hardware as they can. No one should be sold a soon-to-be obsolete format. The one thing that does surprise is the complete exit from HD-DVD...

I have no desire to silence them. I just want to see them discussed in the proper setting. Last time I checked, he's not employed by anyone in the industry and views himself as a consumer advocate (regardless of the legitimate arguments otherwise, that's what he believes). There has never been...

Uh, sir, you seem inclined towards misinterpretation at best. There was no implication, that is your opinion. Despite the fact you offered no context to that post whatsoever outside of who was quoted in that response, I think it's clear what that does demonstrate: I've hammered the pointless...

When did I ever question the value of your opinions on the format war? Is the format war equivalent to Bill Hunt? When did I say Bill Hunt can do no wrong? Answer to all the aforementioned: never! Refrain from making ignorant remarks like "fanboy" which serve as nothing more than another petty...

I'm happy to learn that I've now gained the ability to somewhat scare people. I never thought I'd be that intimidating. Mr. Hunt did defend his position, and there have been a few posts regarding that position that were intelligent and free of petty comments and puerile rants. Please point to...

Cried? Hardly. Perhaps over how juvenile this affair is, I might. In reality, I just asked you to conduct a discourse like a civil adult.

Because the long knives are out for Bill Hunt, particularly on this thread. It's getting really tiresome. I subscribed to this thread for studio support info, not lame bashing of a guy some people either don't agree with or actively hate. Bill Hunt's site is billed as an enthusiast one, not a...

So are you going to make another snarky comment or will you (and everyone else) move on?

I am going to use the "Slashdot tagging (beta)" here for the author of the article, not the poster: troll, yes, no, idiot, lame, flamebait, wrong, !walmartexclusive

Do you guys want to keep patting each other on the back over the $150 million dollar source (nevermind that the dollar part was true)? Or would you rather talk about something more constructive than petty attacks on Bill Hunt? Really, when you've taken to putting something about Bill Hunt in the...

Yeah, I doubt it will be, hence my "supposed." I really don't want to buy a player because I have no room left my rack! Standard DVD, CD player, PS3, cable box and amp. If there was a BD player that a) finalised and b) universal (SACD and so forth) I'd bite - I bet that's a long ways off.

I had an interesting anecdotal conversation in Best Buy today with a guy browsing the HD-DVD section which is next to the Blu-Ray. He asked me what I had and I said blu-ray; he meant which player. I said PS3 to which he replied that it seems like everyone has a PS3. He went on to say that the...

With all due respect, you already knew the forum rules, so your disenguous apology at the end of your post is offensive. You used the Judith Miller "controversy" as an opportunity to spout your anti-Iraq war and/or liberal points of view. Keep them to yourself as I am not interested in hearing...

Not even a remotely fair comparison. Furthermore, that had nothing to do with credibility. I loathe the NY Times with a passion but Judith Miller got screwed, for lack of a better way of putting it.

= fanboy in denial? Again I ask, why are HD-DVD supports so horrified by the idea that Microsoft paid off Paramount to support their format? They argue that BD did it! It's ok! But if someone allgees that the HD-DVD camp did it, well god that's just a bitter "fanboy." The fact is, most BD...

Your post is just as arrogant and as pompus as you allege about the person you are railing against. Constructive criticisms of Mr. Hunt's POSITION rather than him as a person would be much more constructive. With all due respect, I think the guy has a lot more information and contacts within the...

It was an interpretation of your language and typing style. I never suggested I was an expert. Then again, you haven't said I was wrong....

Really. It's so. I've read it. I'll read it again. They're saying there were rewarded with undisclosed financial incentives. Read it anyway you want, I'll take it as meaning they were given money to pick HD-DVD. Why are you so afraid of that being true and getting yourself in a swivet...

I don't get it.

Wouldn't be a brilliant PR move. It's better to tout the supposed superiority of your chosen format than say you were bought off. It's all business, but one sounds better than the other.

You've effectively made sure that you'll never believe it. That's ok with me, though I think misguided.

They're not going to come out and say, "We took X dollars to go HD-DVD exclusive." Instead, in newspapers like the WSJ, it reads like this, "The studios won undisclosed financial incentives for exclusive commitments to release high-definition movies onto HD DVD only. A person familiar with the...

Wasn't everyone here just screaming about how Bill Hunt "made up" that cash part of the deal? :rolleyes

What on earth is with the hatred of Bill Hunt? I've never seen the guy do anything than be a great advocate for the consumer - videophile and average alike. He prefers Blu-Ray, deal with it. He thinks it has the best chance of ending the format war - ok. He makes a reasonable argument - IMO. But...