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The Blu-Ray apologists are all over the map regarding this sale. Let me see if I can get this straight: The problem with the format war is that it inhibits the mass adoption of HDM. However, this sale -- which is certain to be one of the top three new-user-generating events in the history of...

No, the decision they made went in contradiction to one data point provided by that experience -- gross sales. What they learned about cost and difficulty of production, necessary lead-time, flexibility, and most importanly among a sea of other factors, profitability, neither you, I, nor Sanjay...

That's exactly my point; there's no commitment here from anyone but Sony and Toshiba. Everyone else is just testing the waters until they find the tack that's best for them. For some, that'll become apparent at 90% market dominance; for Paramount, it evidently appeared after approximately a...

Even setting aside the selective griping about payola, the question is still loaded. No studio is "committed to supporting BOTH formats." If Blu-Ray sales shot to 90% of the HD market next week and stayed there, somehow I don't think Bill Hunt would view this alleged commitment to both...

There's a difference between the site's neutrality and an individual's personal opinion. What, do you think all reporters for objective, neutral publications have no political beliefs of their own? Really, what's to clarify?

It always struck me as odd that people got so hung up on Microsoft's alleged intention to shift the market towards downloads when the fact of the matter is that Sony has every reason to be pursue the exact same course. Yes, I know Sony also has a vested interest in physical media, but surely...

I just wanted to give credit for an awesome metaphor (technically, I guess, a simile). I love it! So who else is clicking back and forth between all their home theater/DVD sites hitting refresh on each one manically whenever they sit down in front of a computer? Oh, yeah, me neither...

No, I'm not obfuscating. I'm illustrating why it's silly for you to conclude out of hand that Paramount's decision to go HD DVD exclusive was motivated solely by the incentives offered them. As you tacitly admit when you say "I'm working on the data I have available to me," there is lots of data...

As long as you continue to insist that sales numbers and incentives are the only two factors in this deal, we're never going to get any further. How much does it cost me to make each burger? What's my profit on sales of each burger? What kind of incentives had my Angus beef supplier been...

And as has been repeated ad nauseam in this thread, sales data is not the only factor in the equation. They may be acting counter to the single data point available to you in constructing your extremely superficial analysis, but none of us has any idea what other data was considered. Similar...

Exactly. There's nothing more anti-consumer about a neutral studio going exclusive than there is about a studio going exclusive from the start and never being neutral. It only feels more anti-consumer from where you're sitting because this time it's actually anti-you. In fact, a compelling...

Oh, believe me, I made them intentionally so I could correct them and show how upstanding I am. ;)

That's all well and good, but like I said, is that really "how you['d] want to represent the extent of your grasp on the situation?" Not me, even if I made no pretensions to objectivity. To some extent, it's metaphorically accurate, but so metaphorically so as to lose any factual utility and to...

You're right, of course. I shouldn't have said "more formally recognized," but rather "more formally acknowledged," as neither of those sites even pretend to any of the objectivity the Digital Bits does. Poor choice of words on my part. I apologize.

The amount of unprofessionalism this deal is exposing on the Blu-Ray side is truly eye-opening. Not just at the Digital Bits, but at the more formally recognized Blu-Ray sites as well. Just look at some of the verbiage used in this post at blu-ray.com. "[A] red suitcase filled with $150M"...

If this is really the basis of your appeal, then why aren't you also posting the contact information for executives at Disney, Fox, and Sony? Let the consumer decide.

Do you honestly believe you'd be seeing all the titles that are currently being released or announced for both formats if it were only one format on the market? I don't.

I love how people keep saying that as if these sorts of tactics started with this deal.

And this is different from HD DVD throwing in the towel and the format ceasing to exist how? All those HD DVD owners bought into the format with the exact same (ostensible) knowledge you're touting as the Blu-Ray owner's current license to feel hurt. The bottom line is things change. Whether...

I just wanted to give a hearty :laugh: to this. Awesome. Also, Jari's comments about the sudden disinterest some people feel for the entire catalogs of some studios being the most ridiculous aspect of this war are spot on. Finally, I already had every currently released Paramount title I...

So, I can't be the only one for whom this announcement will spur more purchases, can I? Honestly, I had started to slow my HD DVD purchases. It just seemed like an unwinnable situation to me, so I picked up a few big new releases (like 300), but slowed my catalog purchases to absolute...

Wow, did not see this one coming. So much so that, even with the official-looking nature of everything, I'm still skeptical. I see quite a few caveats emerging in the near future, similar to the Spielbergian one Brett was so quick to latch on to. If true as currently stated, though, all I can...