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After yesterday's announcement by Viacom that its Paramount and Dreamworks subsidiaries would only be supporting HD-DVD going forward, Michael Bay wrote a message board posting at his official site which panned the decision, and more.

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elzorro2162
Aug. 22, 2007, 10:04 a.m.
Good for him! I prefer BluRay. Anything that is Microsoft (HD-DVD)is notoriously shoddy and unreliable. Besides are there still companies out there trying to be coerced by the decadent and downward MIcrosoft Corp? They don't have the influence they used to have.
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inthemiddleof
Aug. 22, 2007, 11:09 a.m.
The posters in the article have a point. What about those that don't have or don't want to buy an HD player?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought you couldn't even play an HD-DVD/Blu-Ray on a normal player?
I think this comes down to another case of Corporate America, forcing the public to their will. Unfortunately it will work. There are too many ppl that will want the movie and that will push sales of the players.
Fortunately, though, the new players aren't going to kill normal DVDs like the DVD did to VHS. I'll end up with one eventually, probably after my current player dies, but I'm not going to make it a number 1 priority to get one.
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aphantasm
Aug. 22, 2007, 11:36 a.m.
For me its not a question of whether or not I want it. It is a question of where can I get the player? Wal-Mart sells a handful of the movies on Blu Ray. But they don't sell the player. I know of noone local that sells it. I probably would have to try Best Buy or Circuit City but that is a 100 miles roundtrip. Kind of overkill for just the player.
Anyways it is possible they may still put it on DVD. That story was kind of vague on that topic.
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redLineRunner
Aug. 22, 2007, 11:53 a.m.
This is just like microsoft releasing games only for Vista. They have ticked off some companies by doing this, and thus limiting the profits from the games.
I think it sucks that corporations can "force" us to buy the new, more expensive tech. It used to be that the consumer had the power. Now the corporations dictate what we get and when we get it.
I have a large DVD collection, and I wont upgrade till I have no other choice.
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seattlewiz
Aug. 22, 2007, 1:03 p.m.
If this is true that sucks!
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brettodactyl
Aug. 22, 2007, 3:29 p.m.
It seems a lot of you are more concerned about the fate of the normal format DVDs than about Blu-ray and HD-DVD. I don't think that the regular DVDs are going away anytime soon. I believe that as long as that is the popular format, as it is now, it will continue to be produced. Also, to the best of my knowledge, HD and Blu-ray players both will play regular DVDs, which means that if we ever are forced to upgrade, we won't have to replace all of our old movies. I really believe it will be years before we have to worry about any of this, though.
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SlapALib
Aug. 22, 2007, 6:22 p.m.
Oh, by the way, News Corp supports Blu Ray. Bear that in mind as you make your format selection.