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Originally Posted by patrick99
I try very hard not to miss any of your posts, Penton. 
I think you are quite right in your analysis of the ineffectiveness of anti-BD rants on other websites.
Still, don't you think that probably the most effective part of the anti-BD campaign ( both during the format war and now) is the part played by internet "journalists" including both those who may have been compensated for taking sides and those who just spread the anti-BD propaganda "innocently" after receiving "story ideas" from parties who have a stake in the anti-BD line? |
In regards to
now,
I don’t think that there is
any “effective” anti-BD campaign going on now.
For that matter, neither do the powers that be, whom I know, from all the BD friendly companies. Whether they are willing to publicly admit it or not, their greatest underlying fear has become the economy and future discretionary spending by the consumer in regards to slowing the adoption rate and that is just something that everyone is all aspects of business might have to deal with.
The focus has now completely shifted to getting the mainstream folks onboard the format and without a format war, the anti-BD internet “journalists” have had their legs cut out from under them. I would say that the only “group” now that is being paid attention to in regards to promoting the adoption of Blu-ray are the Directors and Producers of the motion pictures, and I think that as time goes by you will see more and more of them offering insights either in public statements or included as *added value* in the supplements of some of their movies.