A good reason NOT to boycott Universal/Paramount?

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Originally Posted by BillCable

OK... I was thinking that perhaps any boycott of Paramount or Universal at the theater might actually be counterproductive in our efforts to convert them to Blu-ray. Hear me out...

Let's say Paramount has a HUGE hit this spring... something that earns $200 million + at the box office. And let's say Blu-ray continues to outsell HD DVD by a 6 or 7-to-1 margin. Paramount sees the box office performance of their hit. They project how much money they'll make when it's released on disc. The potential profits on a huge hit released on Blu-ray might be too great to be ignored. Thus it might speed up their plans for neutrality.

But if none of their films do that well, there isn't that potential windfall, and thus less incentive to switch to Blu. So they might hold out even longer.

I'll grant that this is largely academic. Paramount and Universal ultimately will go Blu before Christmas. But prompting them to switch sooner rather than later would be to everyone's benefit.

I disagree with you 100%. They might be more quickly to release titles on blu if the movie does less than expected to try to recoup some earning that where never made at the box office plus it will show them what we think of they're stupid policy.

I will boycott them until they are blu, end of discussion.