Bill Hunt's latest on the format war (September 12)

[JadedRaverLA]

Originally Posted by CAB

Do you agree that a Neutral studio going exclusive is bad for the consumer and the HDM industry? I hate that Paramount went to HD DVD but I hate that they shafted the consumer a whole lot more.

This wasn't directed at me, my I'll throw in my opinion. Buying off a neutral studio rather than trying to get an opponent's exclusive studio to go neutral is very bad business, and very anti-consumer. The HD DVD/Paramount deal did absolutely NOTHING to increase the number of titles available on the HD DVD format. It merely decreased the number of titles to be released on the opposing format. So, thye did nothing for owners of their own format, and just "stuck it to" owners of the other format. I really don't get what it accomplishes. Personally, I feel shafted enough to decide pretty clearly now that I'll never buy HD DVD. If that was their goal, then I guess they won.