Should BDA carry the brunt of HD DVD's demise and give reparation to supporters?

[Jeff®]

Plus, how would Warner (as they geared up to pass out these $300 discounts on hardware) distinguish between dual format owners who might have previously purchased Warner HD DVDs, but are capable of switching to Warner BDs, and those who only bought HD DVD hardware and Warner software? Should the dual format owners get a $300 discount on a new BD player too because they can produce a receipt for an HD DVD?

Warner did absolutely nothing wrong. In fact they did the industry (and all customers of either format) a huge favor by making this decision now rather than later.

Warner customers (of HD DVDs) got to enjoy the movies that they purchased. They got their money's worth. They got what they paid for. Their discs still work. Everyone who purchased hardware during this format war should have known what they were getting into; there was a risk involved.

Originally Posted by Rob Tomlin

Whoa. I missed this part.

This is absurd. Ridiculous. Retarded.

I would be pretty pissed if they even considered doing anything remotely close to this. $300 towards a BD player? Are you kidding me?

I simply cannot understand the logic/reasoning. Seriously, you are telling these HD DVD supporters that, despite the fact that they wanted BD to fail, it's ok because we are going to buy you a BD player anyway! People who supported BD from the start are the suckers, because they paid the most money to begin with (I paid well over $1000 for my Pioneer Elite BD player), but we aren't going to give them shit!

A token gesture might be fine (such as credit for trading in WB titles on HD DVD for the BD counterpart) but to pay $300 for a player is beyond ludicrous.