Letter To Paramount

[E-Dogg]

I decided to contact Paramount directly on their website and suggest you all do the same to display your disdain for the decision to support HD-DVD exclusively.


"I am writing to you to express my extreme disappointment with your most recent announcement to go HD-DVD exclusive. I guess as they say money talks and it's a shame as a proud Blu-Ray supporter that you chose to support a dying format simply for a quick buck, when sales clearly showed Blu-Ray selling 2-1 compared to HD-DVD. Please know I will never support another movie that you release in the theaters or on home video. See you at the finish line when HD-DVD fails. It's death is inevitable so thank you for prolonging this format war at the cost of us consumers. I hope you are proud of yourselves."

Sincerly, Eric J

[cawgijoe]

Please post a link.

Also, I went in and sent them an e-mail through the Viacom link and contact page.

Thsi needs to be done "en masse" and quickly. They need to realize the mess they have created.

[supersix4]

Can I use your letter... I dont wanna type a new one hope we wont be like the ps3 group boycotting the DMC4 going to 360

[ottscay]

I already sent one, I am writing one to Viacom investor relationships now.

[clyon]

You have to write a letter NOT an Email. Most emails are not read & just deleted. Handwriten letters are the best.

[WriteSimply]

What cylon said. Print it out, sign it and post it.


fuad

[Proteus]

The ink is dry on this one guys.

I'm afraid this is a big win for digital downloading (why microsoft pony'd up the dough for it... Toshiba is too stupid to realize it also apparently).

Right now our best bet is to influence _retailers_ by using letter writing campaigns and other means to get them to _end the format war that is hurting all consumers and hurting their profits by lack of adoption meaning less packaged media sales_.

At this point retailers need to take a stand. It is the only way it will get resolved. The only other way is if the remaining BD studios are all bought off and locked in signed deals and hardware manufacturers are willing to undersell HDDVD to win it. Otherwise it will come down to money. And, let's face it... The BDA isn't spending any.

Sony just announced $100 million ad campaign about high def that is very vague on blu-ray when you look at the existing POP in the market for it. The HDDVD promotion group just gave that much to Paramount alone to sign the contract. Sony, et al, needs to pony up and make sacrifices to ensure adoption at this point or Blu-ray will be done if HDDVD keeps outspending them. They should have pony'd up months ago and just ended it right then and there instead of waiting. That alone would have probably prevented this tragedy for the consumer.

The only bright side here is that the HDDVD promotions group may have just blown their entire wad on Paramount meaning Universal might not get a cut next year and could release on BD. Wouldn't it be interesting if their plan was to 'buy' one studio per year just to get them to release their catalog on the media then 'letting them go' after that? Would ensure a huge selection and sampling from all studios on the format.

Oh yeah, Steven Speilberg is Executive Producer on Transformers. In fact, he's Executive Producer on almost every major release Paramount has had for a very long time. This could be interesting to consider.

[movies3]

link plz i will type one as well

[Gamma_Winstead]

Amen, Link please?

[cajmoyper]

Yeah, this will definitely offset all the letters from HD DVD fanboys to studios like fox and disney.