Archived: Ask the Insiders: Judgment Day Edition

[stockstar1138]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I recently conversed with Bill Hunt……or as I like to call him, Wild Bill.
I would say to keep a close eye on Digital Bits, if he hasn't posted something there already.

Later.

wow! that just confirmed this as 3 sources stating Paramount is going blu. and none other from the 100% im always correct, i got the inside scoop, Penton Man

[elwaylite]

Bill hasn't given his two cents for today, so Ill await to see what comes up.

Hopefully we'll get a break tonight preparing for tomorrows official.

[spam.curitiba]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Never a worry.

The count-up was calculated and intentionally planned in progression since Sept.

LOL I love how you made Amir look like an ass

[Slckevin]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I recently conversed with Bill Hunt……or as I like to call him, Wild Bill.
I would say to keep a close eye on Digital Bits, if he hasn't posted something there already.

Later.

man this is why i love having two monitors. thanks for the heads up P-man

[spam.curitiba]

Originally Posted by Slckevin

man this is why i love having two monitors. thanks for the heads up P-man

LOL if I wasn't down in the lab and up at my desk I would be able to do that too jeeze..I hate loading MV TP....

[Living Near Shamu]

Penton-Man reappears and suddenly pages upon pages of comments get added to this thread, lol.

Nobody moves the masses better than Warner or The Insiders

[Scorxpion]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I recently conversed with Bill Hunt……or as I like to call him, Wild Bill.
I would say to keep a close eye on Digital Bits, if he hasn't posted something there already.

Later.

THANKS and Thanks again Penton and to every Blu-ray supporter including most and all of the insiders.

A special thanks to Warner Bros.

[PaulGo]

Originally Posted by spam.curitiba

LOL I love how you made Amir look like an ass

It's not hard to do. And lately Amir has been doing a pretty good job without anyones assistance.

[elwaylite]

Man o man. I cant wait to see how the B&M retailers react if in fact paramount comes back in.

[spam.curitiba]

Originally Posted by elwaylite

Man o man. I cant wait to see how the B&M retailers react if in fact paramount comes back in.

The BBY by my work already has half of one rack for hd dvd empty and had about 12 hd dvd players on discount because of open box,

[Nooff]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I recently conversed with Bill Hunt……or as I like to call him, Wild Bill.
I would say to keep a close eye on Digital Bits, if he hasn't posted something there already.

Later.

You got us all interested now

I think I saw Bill mentioning they were opening up a new hairsalon somewhere

[elwaylite]

Originally Posted by spam.curitiba

The BBY by my work already has half of one rack for hd dvd empty and had about 12 hd dvd players on discount because of open box,

Well, they could carry Para and Uni on HDDVD and then Fox/Sony/Disney/WB/Para on BD. Large section vs very small.

Question is, would they want to continue to eat up space with players and discs.

I see the players dropping off, but dunno about the software, they could give it a small area.

[hollywoodguy]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Back in December I was in an office with some people that implored me not to leak anything about the WB decision before hand like I did with the Paramount pay-off several months ago.

Boy, would you have looked stupid had Fox taken Toshiba's money...

[jopemoro]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Shrewd attorney, squints back as he is thinking but, remains silent.

So what could I do?
I gave you guys a countdown, or in this case, a count-up to the WB announcement – establishing the day with my 1,000th post.

Flash forward to present day.
Shrewd attorney got out-foxed by Penton.

Shrewd attorney probably waiting for you around some corner as I type, no?

[JAGUAR1977]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Never a worry.

The count-up was calculated and intentionally planned in progression since Sept.

While PCM/TrueHD tracks are welcome for those who can access them, would it not be possible to always have a back-up DTS-HD/MA track so those of us stuck with optical can access the core 1.5mbps track, which IMO is a notable step up from regular DD 5.1.

Along with Fox, we now have Lionsgate and New Line titles with DTS-HD/MA, it would be nice if Warner and Sony followed suit.

[Bullseye]

Originally Posted by dragons lair

Sorry, but I consider beatboy the equivalent of rdjam, all he is a wanna be insider who is wrong or makes up stuff to seem cool to the BR crowd.

The worse rumor he posted at AVS was that the extended Lord of the Rings was coming to BR only at the end of 2007 to make up for HD DVD getting the Matrix early and HD DVD was only going to get the regular versions.

He also started his rumors here and wicky shut him down-

This is from November-

While BB may be a BD fan i cannot recall him ever dishing HD-DVD the way rdjam dished BD. I think there is a difference. I take all rumours as just that rumours.

[zipbags]

To the insiders...

Assume Universal (and/or Paramount) announce tomorrow that they will release on blu. Realistically, how long would it take before we see product from them? This is more related to Universal. Since Paramount may have some blu discs (ie-Blades of Glory) in a warehouse somewhere.

[Tok]

Originally Posted by hollywoodguy

Boy, would you have looked stupid had Fox taken Toshiba's money...

I assume you are being sarcastic. Does anyone really think Fox was considering changing sides? Fox was so paranoid about DRM that they dropped off of the BD release schedule for a half a year after the basic layer of encryption was cracked. They did not come back until BD+ was implemented.

Even several insiders alluded to the facts being twisted by the HD DVD group to make it look like the BDA played dirty. Everyone knows money was changing hands from both factions.

What I find funny over on AVS some people are trying to portray how poor little HD DVD was attacked by Sony and BDA. Hello? Toshiba is huge company and MSFT was equally powerful. Not saying that Warner definitely did not get incentives but as Warner said in their press release, they chose BD because it has the best chance to win the war quickly and end confusion so HD disk media does not miss its window.

[elwaylite]

M$ is MORE powerful. Toshiba laid in the bed with a dog and got fleas.

[spicynacho]

There is also a rumor over at HDD (started by Spartan Johnson) that weinstien is in the bag for blu. They are just trying to squeeze some money out of the deal so that they will announce and start releasing movies on blu exclusively.

Can any insiders confirm/deny the truth of this rumor?