Toshiba Deploys New HD DVD Marketing Initiatives ...

Originally Posted by cbcdesign

Check the poll! People move on and off forums all the time. It means squat. The polls are far more telling.

Originally Posted by unotis

Of course they lied, they published they had no intention of remaining anything but neutral and would not go exclusive with either format up until the day of the announcement.

Originally Posted by TheRedBaron

They didn't lie, you just decided not to believe Warner VP Dan Silverberg, or have the wit to read between the lines of the business speak rebuttles that left them with all the wriggle room they needed to follow the market.

Originally Posted by TheRedBaron

They didn't lie, you just decided not to believe Warner VP Dan Silverberg, or have the wit to read between the lines of the business speak rebuttles that left them with all the wriggle room they needed to follow the market.

Originally Posted by Stew4HD

Real good rebuttal, there. You are only here for an arguement.. Calling me a zealot for saying your posts are written to cause trouble?? Think again.

Let me ask you this, how many BDs do you own?

Keep up your type of rhetoric and find your place on many member's ignore list, alongside Sti jaguar's as your posts are similar.

Originally Posted by TheRedBaron

Can I go on your ignore list please?

Originally Posted by Cowboy X

Several execs did lie. Coming up to the Jan announcement. Rumors were going both ways and exec after exec said the same thing ......... we are staying neutral.

Originally Posted by cbcdesign

You have a very odd way of looking at things MR Gerhard.
If the disk has an HD DVD copy of a movie on it, its an HD DVD movie, end of story. The idea that Nielson can decide what constitutes an HD DVD movie is laughable. You have long toted the idea that a PS3 is a blu-ray player but you say a combo isn't an HD DVD becuase it affects the blu-ray statistics. Typical!

Originally Posted by tomes

But why would Universal or Paramount bother selling a disc that costs more to produce, plus eliminate any chance of future Hidef pricing (profit), in order to save HDDVD?

If Toshiba pays for one or two titles and Uni/Para accepts not making much money on HD, then BDA will probably work with its own studios to do the exact same thing to even it out. (They can just as easily put in a bare bones single layer blu-ray disc with the dvd. Production cost will most likely be very similar to what a combo disc would cost HDDVD). This would be a preferred approach to me, rather than combo, for three reasons (I think one of these could be fixed by HDDVD with Twin or something):
a) kids can scratch up the dvd and I don't care. They don't get to touch my BD disc.
b) no confusion about how to get the disc to work in a player. Both discs will have artwork on the top of the disc with clear labeling
c) I like to have labeling on the discs (for some weird reason )

Originally Posted by tomes

They said "we are CURRENTLY staying neutral" which everyone with a minimum of corp-speak experience knows means "we are neutral today, but tomorrow, maybe not..."

Originally Posted by Cowboy X

At the current prices, it is like getting a med to highend upconverting player, plus the ability to play HD DVD. So actually it is ok to buy the hardware. Does your moral compass let people know not to buy any Blu-Ray standalone player until BD2.0 comes out.

Originally Posted by apocolypse

Why don't you just put him on your list? Then you don't have to see his responses to your posts.

Originally Posted by tomes

They said "we are CURRENTLY staying neutral" which everyone with a minimum of corp-speak experience knows means "we are neutral today, but tomorrow, maybe not..."

Originally Posted by TheRedBaron

F I R E S A L E ! ! !

I don't want to hear anyone who buys an HD-DVD player or software after 1/4/08 complain that Warner has screwed them and made their HD-DVD purchase a waste of money.