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Patience is overrated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I will be interested in how much Warner and the others got for going Blu or NOT going neutral. Anyone want to bet it was more than $29m ?]]>May 6th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/May 6th 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/May 6th 2008 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/
Rest in peace, dear HD DVD friend.]]>May 6th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/
Titles Included...
Ice Age: The Meltdown
Alien vs. Predator
Night at the Museum
Eragon
Fantastic 4: Rise Of The Silver Surfer
Die Hard
Die Hard 3
The Simpsons Movie

The Sale Supposedly Runs From May 5 - May 11 ONLY
More Info and Proof at formatwarcentral.com]]>May 6th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/
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Amazon BOGO's with the HD10 stacking coupon had new release blu-rays down to $8 apiece with ENORMOUS selections. At one point there was a deal where some of the lesser titles (like most of the ones mentioned in those deals above for 3x as much) were as low as $5 a pop.

For the $8 movies we were talking A+ titles like 300 and the Pirates Trilogy, not Artie Lange's Beer League. Now in your list 300 is "on sale" for $19.95.]]>May 7th 2008 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/
It's absolutely laughable to say that it was a payoff. Did anyone think that this money might've been from SONY? Viacom went from HD DVD exclusive to neutral FIRST. What if this money was paid by BDA?

It wouldn't surprise me.]]>May 6th 2008 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/May 6th 2008 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/
Just like it doesn't surprise anyone on this site that you can turn any story into an anti-Blu conspiracy despite your claims of being "over" the death of HD-DVD.

And no, nobody thinks it could be from Sony except you... because they read the article, which you obviously didn't... or else you would have seen this:

"....revenue on one-time items including a $29 million payout from Toshiba for Par’s exclusive backing of the HD-DVD."


It's funny how people who claim to be fans of all things High Def come to this site just bash a brand name because it wasn't the one they chose from the start. I thought this site was for High Def enthusiast who want to see and hear things in as good of quality as possible... now it seems more like a battleground for bitter brand-name loyalists who care more about what color your camp is than how good a movie looks or sounds.

And now that the war is over, the arguments go from whether or not Toshiba subsidized their players and paid off studios to whether or not a certain amount of money is high enough to "count" as a subsidy or payoff. Whether they subsidized their player by $5 or $50 dollars is irrelevant, as it whether they paid paramount $29 million or $290 million. Just because Sony may have paid more doesn't negate this. The way the red camp loyalists continue to move the goal posts is what is truly laughable.





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Are you all that naive? Jesus. On one side Toshiba was paying off Paramount, which of course there's no trace of $150m bullshit that was hyped up everywhere and somehow Warner, Fox, Lionsgate and other studios never got a dime from Sony. Are you that naive or simply unable to cope with the fact that it was paying off game that Sony started first.

I just said, I'd like Variety to do their such great investigative work and show the numbers that other studios got. This whole bullshit is really ridiculous.

In the end, it will be that Sony and BDA didn't pay anything to anyone and somehow HD DVD paid Paramount. LOL.

That's just total disconnect with reality.]]>May 6th 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/
Who are you claiming is being naive and disconnected with reality here because you're the one responding to claims nobody has made in this thread yet (as of whatever time it is I'm posting this comment)?


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For everyone complaining about price, these kinds of loss leader sales are only going to increase as Blu-ray's popularity rises. Before you know it (I predict within three years), there will be $10 bargain bins of BDs. ]]>May 6th 2008 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/May 6th 2008 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/
As for Blu-ray disk prices going up, I haven't seen any of that. People forget that during the holidays, there are sales and TEMPORARY price reductions to move product before and after Christmas (and there was still a format war so both camps had to pull out all the stops). This time of year is a traditionally slow one for retail so you don't see a lot of sales or BOGOs anywhere. It's not just Blu-ray disks. And guess what? Prices are going up on everything! Gas and food in particular, so don't single out Blu-ray just because you're still longing for your failed HD DVD format. Toshiba has faced reality...it's time the rest of the HD DVD adopters do as well! Chances are had the shoe been on the other foot, you'd be whining about the increase in prices of HD DVD disks right now as well! Come the holiday season, there will be plenty of sales and price reductions as well as some highly anticpated titles from all of the studios!]]>May 6th 2008 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/
... exactly. The idea that Toshiba is a consumer's best friend and would never cut back on discounts and sales had they won the format war is just laughable. Both camps sacrificed and made deals to try and win, and regardless of who won it's common sense that they would take a breather from their "war-time" strategy to try and recoup some of their loses. Why this is shocking or proof of some big scam by the Blu is beyond me. ]]>May 6th 2008 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/May 6th 2008 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/May 6th 2008 7:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/
Nobody's denying the BDA made pay-offs just like HD DVD did...nobody fails to realize that the BDA is a profit-making business.

Please don't put words in the mouths of your "enemies" and then act like they're stupid for saying them - they didn't.]]>May 7th 2008 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/06/paramount-payoff-confirmed-by-viacom-earnings-report/May 6th 2008 8:53PM