'The Whip' weblog: Blu-ray's Sad Fanboys

[Amel]

http://www.tvpredictions.com/2007/10...d-fanboys.html

This past week in the format war has been rather humorous with all kinds of silly and downright stupid comments being made from fanboys from both sides. Most of it seems to revolve around (the HD DVD release of) Transformers which seems to have partisans on both sides up in arms. You have to love comments like HD-DVD sucks, or I’d rather buy the DVD, to personal attacks about someone’s weight, being made by an employee of Sony no less ( or someone using his handle) and the complaints that it would have sounded better if it had a lossless track (like they would have any clue on this subject).

However, today takes the cake over at the Blu-Ray forums where some seem to be in orgasmic ecstasy over the 'buy one get one free' or BOGO sale being run this week by the Blu-Ray camp. The clear intent of this sale is to try to cut into what has been perceived to be an anticipated large number of sales of Transformers on HD-DVD. Clearly, the BD camp wants to run up the sales numbers this week to counter the anticipated large impact of Transformers on the weekly sales figures and ratios. I have no, I repeat, no problem with this strategy. Frankly, the sale of two discs for about $30 is about what the regular prices should be for two discs, not one.

What I do have a problem with are the people who insist on proclaiming that with the BOGO sale, “we” will win the weekly sales numbers. “We?” Just who is we?

To those who have this mindset, please wake up and smell the coffee. Unless you work for Sony or one of the BDA companies, the correct pronoun you should be using is they not we. It is pretty doubtful that they are paying you to buy their discs or their players. What they are doing is leading you around by the nose, doing their bidding for them, and what is worse, paying your hard earned money (or that of your parents?) for the privilege of doing so, running out all giddy to buy discs that you would not have purchased otherwise.

Somehow, you think that by buying more discs you will actually be “winning” something. If by winning you mean burning a hole in your pocket, by all means do so. It is your loss. Just realize that you are being manipulated and paying to be led around by your nose. I never thought I would say it but you guys are worse than out of state Dallas Cowboys fans who seem to generate their self worth by rooting for a football team that you would otherwise have no interest in, other than the fact that they have won in the past. For some truly bizarre reason, you think that you or your life will somehow be better than someone else’s because you picked the eventual format winner. Sad truly sad.

heheheh, like I said, these efights with the HDDVD camp are ridicoulus IMO, I hate it and agree with this article somehow, this might have been posted