Warner Going Blu-ray Exclusive (Rumor) - Page 19 - Blu-ray Forum

jason_grumpy · 09-26-2007, 11:45 PM

Makes me wonder what tomorrow will bring for both sides..so, here's a pre-emptive strike.

Bullseye · 09-26-2007, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by jhansla

Just sitting here reading this thread is more exciting than playing Halo 3

LOL.

stockstar1138 · 09-26-2007, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Right of Might

See something else stinks here. Why would W.B. announce that they are supporting Blu at the foothold of the shopping season. They wouldn't sell dick for Harry Potter, Oceans or any other HD-DUD title. That would be really stupid from a business stand point. They aren't about to undercut their own sales at the biggest shopping time of the year. I don't think we'll see an official announcement IF they do decide to go Blu until Q1 2008.

yeah, but the fence sitters would hop off and they would selll way more than the litterly >80k they would on hd dvd.

RedIsNotBlue · 09-26-2007, 11:45 PM

Well if it really was an HD DVD prankster wouldn't it make more sense to say the announcement is coming much later down the line and not tomorrow?

Blu-Light · 09-26-2007, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by GSX600F

i was thinking the exact same thing BUT if true, we cann call FACT Blu-ray has won the war!

But you see, the only people this is torturing is the HD-DUD folks. By this time tomorrow we may be scraping what is left of them off the sidewalks around tall buildings.

stockstar1138 · 09-26-2007, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Icemage

I'd like to take a moment and give the membership here at Blu-ray.com a pat on the back for being so very rational about this. It's a nice change from AVS, where every little rumor gets picked up and carried like it's written in a holy book.

To add some fuel to the fire:

Penton-Man posted on 9/17/2007 in the Insiders thread (pointed out several pages back):

Looking back over his posts in that thread, he all but stopped posting for several days, and then came back to his regular posting volume on 9/24/2007, five days after he announced his "sabbatical".

It's not evidence, but could this be another oblique Penton-Man reference?

he said to PM him to which P man always says. i think theres a good chance it might be pman.

halon · 09-26-2007, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Right of Might

See something else stinks here. Why would W.B. announce that they are supporting Blu at the foothold of the shopping season. They wouldn't sell dick for Harry Potter, Oceans or any other HD-DUD title. That would be really stupid from a business stand point. They aren't about to undercut their own sales at the biggest shopping time of the year. I don't think we'll see an official announcement IF they do decide to go Blu until Q1 2008.

He mentioned they would honor their HD-DVD commitments untill the (end of the year?) or was it all movies they have said they would do for HD-DVD. Pretty much the same thing.

Blu-Light · 09-26-2007, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by stockstar1138

he said to PM him to which P man always says. i think theres a good chance it might be pman.

I doubt it was him. Let's just keep this guys identity a secret.

Right of Might · 09-26-2007, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by den4blu

He mentioned they would honor their HD-DVD commitments untill the (end of the year?) or was it all movies they have said they would do for HD-DVD. Pretty much the same thing.

Sure they'd honor to manufacture but who the Hell would buy a disc for a dying format....come on W.B. isn't that stupid.

Bullseye · 09-26-2007, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Right of Might

Sure they'd honor to manufacture but who the Hell would buy a disc for a dying format....come on W.B. isn't that stupid.

The Hd-DVD guys are doing it all the time.

Firestreak · 09-26-2007, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Right of Might

See something else stinks here. Why would W.B. announce that they are supporting Blu at the foothold of the shopping season. They wouldn't sell dick for Harry Potter, Oceans or any other HD-DUD title. That would be really stupid from a business stand point. They aren't about to undercut their own sales at the biggest shopping time of the year. I don't think we'll see an official announcement IF they do decide to go Blu until Q1 2008.

Makes perfect sense to me. If they already own an HD DVD, they'll buy your movies. If they already own a blu-ray or were going to pick a player up this season... then they'll pick blu-ray and buy your movie. It's money either way if they sell hd dvd version or blu-ray version.

The only money they lose is people who were planning on picking up hd dvd, absolutely won't pick up blu-ray and decide to buy no player at all. I'm sure there might be a couple thousand vocal blu-ray haters like that, probably because they hate the PS3 since it competes with another system they own. Not a huge chunk of the market. To add to that, think of all the fence sitters who might buy blu-ray players, and then buy WB movies as a result of the announcement. It'd dwarf the losses 100 fold.

stockstar1138 · 09-26-2007, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Blu-Light

I doubt it was him. Let's just keep this guys identity a secret.

agreed. but p-man works like this. and we all know if p-man came on here saying WB is going blu-ray exclusive we'd all beliefve him. and p-man would be the 1st to know this news out of pratically anybody on the internet. he beat josh to the nickerson news, he knows wb pretty well.

w_tanoto · 09-26-2007, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullseye

The Hd-DVD guys are doing it all the time.

of course they are, along with some petitions to get more studio

95pgtproject · 09-26-2007, 11:51 PM

lol 19 pages already wow fastest growing thread in blu-ray.com history LOL. Lets just wait till tomorrow and see if this guy is for real or just a big waist of time. I didnt even bother to read 19 pages of this thread how much more can we talk about what ifs I mean come on.

No more talk, I expect to see a new thread tomorrow with warner excluive or new guy banned and made a fool. Until then..................

PaulGo · 09-26-2007, 11:51 PM

I do believe (at least until tomorrow at 10AM PST). Somehow I was hoping for this but based upon the statement from Warner saying they would wait until after the forth quarter sales is is a suprise. Thanks for the info!

Blu-Light · 09-26-2007, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Bullseye

The Hd-DVD guys are doing it all the time.

Ziinnnnggggg.

stockstar1138 · 09-26-2007, 11:54 PM

and ill ask again, why the mods havn't closed this unless something is up, as this has caused a panic.

jon s · 09-26-2007, 11:54 PM

i don't know about you guys, but i am just gonna sit back and wait till tomorrow. if it happens great, if not, then no big deal...

Bullseye · 09-26-2007, 11:55 PM

I think more excitment than panic. On this side of the fence anyway.

CAB · 09-26-2007, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by stockstar1138

and ill ask again, why the mods havn't closed this unless something is up, as this has caused a panic.

Cause someone with no life (looks around) would just start another thread with the same topic. Why delete a dozen tomorrow when they can just delete one?

09-26-2007, 11:51 PM	#374
95pgtproject Expert Member Member since:Aug 2007 Blu-ray collection:210 Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:21	lol 19 pages already wow fastest growing thread in blu-ray.com history LOL. Lets just wait till tomorrow and see if this guy is for real or just a big waist of time. I didnt even bother to read 19 pages of this thread how much more can we talk about what ifs I mean come on. No more talk, I expect to see a new thread tomorrow with warner excluive or new guy banned and made a fool. Until then.................. Last edited by 95pgtproject; 09-27-2007 at 12:26 AM.

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09-26-2007, 11:45 PM	#361
jason_grumpy Senior Member Member since:Apr 2007 Blu-ray reviews: 4	Makes me wonder what tomorrow will bring for both sides..so, here's a pre-emptive strike.

09-26-2007, 11:45 PM	#364
RedIsNotBlue Blu-ray Ninja Member since:May 2007 Blu-ray collection:503 Digital collection:10 Trading Score:226	Well if it really was an HD DVD prankster wouldn't it make more sense to say the announcement is coming much later down the line and not tomorrow?

09-26-2007, 11:51 PM	#375
PaulGo Power Member Top contributor Member since:Aug 2007 Location:North Potomac, MD	I do believe (at least until tomorrow at 10AM PST). Somehow I was hoping for this but based upon the statement from Warner saying they would wait until after the forth quarter sales is is a suprise. Thanks for the info!

09-26-2007, 11:54 PM	#377
stockstar1138 Banned Member since:Apr 2007	and ill ask again, why the mods havn't closed this unless something is up, as this has caused a panic.

09-26-2007, 11:54 PM	#378
jon s Active Member Member since:May 2007 Blu-ray reviews:3	i don't know about you guys, but i am just gonna sit back and wait till tomorrow. if it happens great, if not, then no big deal...

09-26-2007, 11:55 PM	#379
Bullseye Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Sep 2006 Location:Ireland Home Theater Gallery:24 4K collection:70 Blu-ray collection:760 Blu-ray reviews: 44	I think more excitment than panic. On this side of the fence anyway.

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