Spielberg only has that power for the movies he directed and not produced, Michael Bay is probably only mad because his contract probably has him making money on royalties. This was a business move for Paramount and Dreamworks. Make some money with the exclusive deal and if HDDVD falls through simply start making blu ray again, its still big money for them. This war is so childish, and looks as though we will be having a SACD, DVD audio niche market. Despite how much I love HD the two formats have been complete failures for me, HDDVD/DVD combo discs are probably the best route in my opinion, the price needs to come down for them, but with combos it doesnt matter if your hd or sd your not left out in the cold. Consumers shouldnt have to upgrade there little portable dvd players, or car players, all of America doesnt have HDTV and those who do are unlikely to have every tv in there house in HD. Where DVD added not only better picture and audio, but the holy grail of features compared to a VHS, such as no rewind man I still remebmer the stickers "be kind, please rewind" anyways the features of the new hd formats arent all that groundbreaking and again are mostly niche type features. I wont lie I do prefer HDDVD over Blu Ray, but I own both so its not a big deal. Blu Ray though just messes with us customers and just keeps saying PS3, millions of players, how about a good game for my PS3 I havent bought a single game since Resistence, worse console ever in terms of gaming. Even more after a year its still not a complete format, how do you think that will make people feel when new discs could fail to work in old players, even if its a firware update, a non techie consumer wouldnt even know what a firmware update is. So the big question still out there, what does Warner do, if they go exclusive you can pretty much count out the other guy, they are just too big as a movie studio, and with Universal, Paramount and Warner pretty much making the top three and fox has done nothing in months except talk. Heres to hoping that Warner goes HDDVD and Sony cant start concentrating on making some games for my $600 "gaming" console.
"Ah, HD DVD, our old friend - we thought we'd never see you again. But there was no mistaking it, here's the logo tucked away in Chinese manufacturer TCL's booth on a China Blue HD deck next to a similar Blu-ray player."
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Spielberg only has that power for the movies he directed and not produced, Michael Bay is probably only mad because his contract probably has him making money on royalties. This was a business move for Paramount and Dreamworks. Make some money with the exclusive deal and if HDDVD falls through simply start making blu ray again, its still big money for them. This war is so childish, and looks as though we will be having a SACD, DVD audio niche market. Despite how much I love HD the two formats have been complete failures for me, HDDVD/DVD combo discs are probably the best route in my opinion, the price needs to come down for them, but with combos it doesnt matter if your hd or sd your not left out in the cold. Consumers shouldnt have to upgrade there little portable dvd players, or car players, all of America doesnt have HDTV and those who do are unlikely to have every tv in there house in HD. Where DVD added not only better picture and audio, but the holy grail of features compared to a VHS, such as no rewind man I still remebmer the stickers "be kind, please rewind" anyways the features of the new hd formats arent all that groundbreaking and again are mostly niche type features.
I wont lie I do prefer HDDVD over Blu Ray, but I own both so its not a big deal. Blu Ray though just messes with us customers and just keeps saying PS3, millions of players, how about a good game for my PS3 I havent bought a single game since Resistence, worse console ever in terms of gaming. Even more after a year its still not a complete format, how do you think that will make people feel when new discs could fail to work in old players, even if its a firware update, a non techie consumer wouldnt even know what a firmware update is.
So the big question still out there, what does Warner do, if they go exclusive you can pretty much count out the other guy, they are just too big as a movie studio, and with Universal, Paramount and Warner pretty much making the top three and fox has done nothing in months except talk. Heres to hoping that Warner goes HDDVD and Sony cant start concentrating on making some games for my $600 "gaming" console.