Why Warner may have intentionally screwed up recently

[blueblood]

Even though Im Blu all the way, I think differently. I think that maybe they are scerewing us over with all these errors. Maybe an excuse to say... We have too much trouble with BD and were going with HD.... I would hate this to happen but thats just what it looks like to me. Come one, sending Hd in BD boxes and I heard from another post that they are doing things to boost HD sales so they have an excuse(a sorry one) to go with HD. I will support BD even if they flip but I would hate to see this happen

[TheRealBob]

Originally Posted by blueblood

Even though Im Blu all the way, I think differently. I think that maybe they are scerewing us over with all these errors. Maybe an excuse to say... We have too much trouble with BD and were going with HD.... I would hate this to happen but thats just what it looks like to me. Come one, sending Hd in BD boxes and I heard from another post that they are doing things to boost HD sales so they have an excuse(a sorry one) to go with HD. I will support BD even if they flip but I would hate to see this happen

You're not the first one to say that, but I must say I find that paranoid beyond belief. While screwing up only the BDs on the surface looks bad for Blu-ray, do you really think they're going to say they're dropping support for BD because they can stop themselves from continuing to accidentally put HD DVDs in BD cases? Really?

As for doing it to hurt sales, the percentage of people that even know about this is pretty small. Most people that watch movies, even HD movies, don't cruise Internet forums reading about it. I might expect a bit of a hit in Amazon sales, but Best Buy's sales wouldn't notice anything.

As for what happened, nobody knows for sure, except perhaps Warner. If I had to guess, my suspicion is that either it was just a mistake or an HD DVD zealot working at Warner did it as a prank. Note that recently some iPods were replaced at the factory with books and a letter exhorting the recipient to stop buying consumerist junk, so this would not be unprecedented.

[hidefdvd]

Originally Posted by blueblood

Even though Im Blu all the way, I think differently. I think that maybe they are scerewing us over with all these errors. Maybe an excuse to say... We have too much trouble with BD and were going with HD.... I would hate this to happen but thats just what it looks like to me. Come one, sending Hd in BD boxes and I heard from another post that they are doing things to boost HD sales so they have an excuse(a sorry one) to go with HD. I will support BD even if they flip but I would hate to see this happen

I have the same concerns, i didnt think universal were going to surprise us. For me it would be typical if they went the HD-DVD format exclusive.

Come on Warner, just say bye bye to HD-DVD and put your time and efforts into the blu. Something tho is telling me that this will never happen