by
Matt Hickey
on
December 5, 2007
Thank you, Michael Bay, for not totally ruining Transformers for us. Actually, it kinda kicked ass. And thank you again for stirring up Internet crapstorms about secret Microsoft conspiracies to kill both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.
We’re calling “no way”, and so is Ars Technica, though they put it far more eloquently than I do. Microsoft wants HD-DVD, a format it’s backed with the Xbox 360.
If anyone wants the standard format for HD to be digital downloads, it’d be Apple. With the Apple TV, a distribution channel (iTunes), and a market footprint like a sasquatch, Cupertino’s the one who’s being mum on which disk it likes.
Comments
michael, i love you, but your full of shit… but i laughed anyways…like this look..ROFL, lol, lmao, see
Um…
Apple is part of Blu-Ray!
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/mar/10blu-ray.html
Yea well weather MS is in it for one reason or another they sure have screwed up people with there BS. I thikg it is nothing more then crappy politics that are driving behind MS promotional backing, that and um the XBOX vs PS3 would not have anything to do with
Microsoft supporting HD-DVD, with all there financial power. there is nothing but RIP off written all over the HD-DVD format.
I agree with M.Bay to a certain extent. To the extent that digital downloads will definitely be a percentage of the market. For instance, people that went Blu-Ray will TiVo Transformers in HiDEF from Pay-Per-View. The restraints against every single movie being a download is HDD space and accessibility to what you’ve downloaded. Discs are portable, collectable and are self contained in regard to memory.
Regardless of what you’re downloading to, whether it be XBox360, PS3 or PC/Laptop, you will never be able to hold an entire collection of 1080p/Master Audio 7.1 movies with all the bonus and extra footage that would normally fill a 50+GB Blu Disc on HDD. I mean, how many could you hold? 2 - 4 movies Tops. Not 20 or 30. Are you going to have a stack of Hard Drives?
I think Michael Bay is very bitter about the Paramount deal because he has no control where as Spielberg has control. Spielberg just said, “Not my films!”. Bay doesn’t have that power or control yet.
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