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[darinp2]

Originally Posted by dobyblue

If rdjam is representing the HD DVD team I will politely decline any offer to debate there. He has run away from so many points that I've brought up and then when I try to ask him why he still hasn't answered some questions yet, he starts blethering on about how this is not the time nor the thread, etc., etc., etc., and then I get warned by the mods not to talk to him or something crazy.

I agree. Some have even wondered if rdjam and amir are the same person. rdjam has posted multiple false things and then refused to either retract them or have intellectually honest debates on them. He or his brother sent out an email to people who had signed up on their list claiming that if Lionsgate used VC-1 it would mean that they had HD DVD encodes. That wasn't true and after I pointed that out, on two different occasions he tried to make people believe it was true. He tried to get Amir to back him up against me and I'm sure that Amir would have loved to have said that I was wrong and rdjam was right, but he couldn't without it being really obvious to knowledgeable people how wrong he was. Lionsgate has used VC-1 for multiple titles and a claim that this meant they had HD DVD versions was not true. Rdjam seems to want to avoid that discussion, along with the time he claimed that most HD DVD titles were 8-12Mbps. Not true there either. He later claimed that he meant that was the case for recent titles, but that was false too. It seems like he takes some of his stuff from his interpretation of what Amir says, and then when he is wrong, will defend the false stuff or (my guess) try to get the whole discussion deleted.

He has even gone as far as claiming that the PS3 didn't turn the sales around. And that was well into the new year when it was obvious that sales had switched to where Blu-ray was leading every week. As an example, he has an article here:

http://www.hdnowonline.com/Comment_PS3_Launch.html

where the title at the top of my browser reads, "The Failure of the PS3 to Reverse the HD DVD lead". That is from December 3rd, 2006, but he updated it on April 14th, 2007 to make it look like it was right. He claimed then that, "The expected post Christmas surge of BD movie "curiosity" sales by new PS3 owners tapered off in March ...", but the real kicker is what he was using as his proof was Amazon sales, where the timing was very close to when the HD DVD fans on the AVSForum were having one of their buy days to manipulate the rankings on Amazon. Their rankings went up as expected with the buy day, and then right back down. That isn't the only time rdjam has jumped on some rare event to claim that HD DVD sales were the neck and neck with Blu-ray, or higher, even though the logical reason was that event (like when people found a way to get $5 off on Amazon for each title for a few hours that HD DVD fans jumped on more and then later Amazon refused to let it go through on many of those orders, while honoring it on some, but rdjam had already used it as proof that he was right about what sales would do).

rdjam is also one of those who likes to use worldwide numbers for hardware ratios and US for software, or things like that. One time he pulled out some numbers where he had to be doing something like that, and when I questioned him he first used the excuse that his hardware numbers where one way (like US), then when I pointed out how his numbers were wrong then, he claimed they were the other way. Not sure why he couldn't just tell me the truth instead of using one answer to get out of one jam and then a contradictory answer to try to get out of the new jam. rdjam gets mad when I point out a lack of integrity and attempts to deceive people, but I'm just speaking the truth. That is one reason I recommended Kosty. He might be as a big an HD DVD fan as rdjam, but at least Kosty shows integrity.

--Darin