Paramount's CTO Alan "capacity is overrated" Bell fired

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From Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily:

I'm told Paramount has laid off the following executives: Louise Kaufman, who's been head of PR in NY for 12 years; Alan Bell, chief technology officer; Megan Burrows, president of domestic home entertainment; and, as I'd previously reported, Nick Meyer, president of Paramount Vantage.

This is the Paramount Chief Technical Officer who tried to persuade everybody that they had dumped Blu-ray because of objective reasons and not because they were getting a big subsidy. (There was also a rather infamous interview on Widescreen Review but I don't think I have that issue anymore.)

Of course, then Transformers came out on BD with a lossless audio track, and another Paramount VP confirmed that that was possible because of the added capacity.

Thanks to zombieflanders for posting this.