Blu-Ray meeting next week. Fox titles and "key partner" announcement

[shido]

Originally Posted by nyg

Okay I hope this wasn't directed at me. Those who know me well are quite aware that I had 100% plans to buy a BD player and every disc I wanted. They also know that I did buy the Samsung and returned it once I saw the poor quality of the discs available firsthand in my HT. Like hmurchison, I'm disappointed that the quality of BD is bad because there are several titles out that I would have happily purchased if they looked better. That's where my frustration comes in regarding the Blu-ray format. The BDA has Sony, Fox, Disney, MGM, and Lions Gate. HD DVD doesn't have these companies. Don't think for a minute that I am just going to ignore these studio's catalogs just because they're not on HD DVD. Their movies are coming to BD and I am going to keep bringing up the poor initial showing cause I don't want it to be repeated when even more BDs come out of movies that I really do want to own. If we forget history we are doomed to repeat it. Anyone that wants great HD quality should be giving crap to Sony since they are the ones who orchestrated this dismal launch. They need to be held accountable and need to improve ASAP. HD DVD should have been dying already if Sony would have used a little more sense thus far. Those who know me know that I hated HD DVD for the longest time and always wanted BD to succeed. That said, Sony has not fullfilled their promises with BD so why should I give them a break?!

Well all you have to do is wait. If Blu-ray doesn't shape up soon, the format will die, and everybody including Sony will be forced to make HD-DVDs. There, problem solved. Quite frankly, it just isn't worth getting so worked up about something so trivial as HD movies. It ain't the end of the world if Blu-ray fails, ya'know. And besides, you returned the player, so it's not like you've been robbed of $1000.