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Originally Posted by Terjyn
If Warner doesn't announce exclusivity by the end of January, I'm done with the war.
I'm sick and tired of having to double check every movie trailer I see, hoping to see that it won't be Paramount or Universal. Even that's not enough, my surprise was complete when the trailers for "Beowulf" said Warner but oh, snag...Paramount has the distribution rights!
I'm tired of being jerked around. I'm tired of being treated like a second-class-citizen because I actually want high def media. I'm tired of Hollywood putting short term profits in the way of the consumer.
Six months ago I didn't feel this way. Six months ago I thought that there might be an end in site. Now I'm beginning to feel like the war will not end until both die, because Hollywood is just plain greedy.
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don't blame hollywood, blame MS and corporate america, many of these movie studios are owned by major corporations (universal = General Electric; WB = Time Warner; Fox = News Corp.; Paramount = Viacom) MS comes into the big coporate board room and says, here is 200 million dollars to boost your stock price and make you investors happy right now! The corporate board doesn't care about HDM, the care about making their stockholders happy. Sales from their HDM for the quarter will make up maybe 5-6 million max. and here is MS offering them 200 million dollars for the quarter, of course they are going to take the money and run. The small, movie studio part of the company, really doesn't have much of a decision they have to do waht the big bosses say.