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

[Porfie]

You know you have struck a nerve when a person from a website like tvpredictions.com writes an entire page at how sad the blu-ray fans are. All I can say is he is either just jealous at how blu-ray FAN BOYS stick together or he is just one heck of a complaining bitter person. Either way check out how low this poor guy has sunk. Either way we must be doing something good to get this kind of attention!

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

[Go Blu]

AHAHAHAHHAA

I can't believe I wasted time reading that.
Hell yeah WE feel good about it!
We believe in our format and support it with our hard earned dollars.

He made one good point though....
None of us are being paid for our exclusive support.

[SamInNorthCakalakey]

What a dick!

[Porfie]

He made one good point though....
None of us are being paid for our exclusive support.
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So true lol!

[oldmike]

lol what he truely dose not get is WE do win some thing
Blu-ray will win the format war and WE will get the best movie PQ/AQ
also love how he trashes lossless autio "like they would have any clue on this subject"

[JAGUAR1977]

Lol, so much for impartiality.

Must really be hurting.

[jsb_hburg]

AVS red ant

[paidgeek]

Originally Posted by Porfie

You know you have struck a nerve when a person from a website like tvpredictions.com writes an entire page at how sad the blu-ray fans are. All I can say is he is either just jealous at how blu-ray FAN BOYS stick together or he is just one heck of a complaining bitter person. Either way check out how low this poor guy has sunk. Either way we must be doing something good to get this kind of attention!

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

The poster says that someone from Sony made an inappropriate comment about someone's weight? Do you know what post he might be referring to??

[jw]

heres my opinion and I published it:
we is referring to your "team" Oh thats right you have an "i" in your team, If you get behind something, you stand behind the team no matter what....Its Obvious Paramount isnt sure what team to support, so when all else fails go for the payday.
Isnt that what America is...corporate greed...all about myself, for myself..prime examples..enron,adelphia,tyco,ge...so on...over compensated ceo's making decisions based on their wallet and not a decision based on facts or quality.
It might be cheaper to produce HDDVD, but who cares, I am sure bluray fans would pay the extra to receive a quality product....one with lossless audio, something Paramount couldnt do with HDDVD, and they admit that themselves.

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by Porfie

You know you have struck a nerve when a person from a website like tvpredictions.com writes an entire page at how sad the blu-ray fans are. All I can say is he is either just jealous at how blu-ray FAN BOYS stick together or he is just one heck of a complaining bitter person. Either way check out how low this poor guy has sunk. Either way we must be doing something good to get this kind of attention!

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

I'm not going to feed his hit meter by going there..just one question though..I assume this is about buy days/week? Yes?

[Footloose301]

I like how he says that we are buying titles that we wouldn't have bought before. WTF is he thinking? I bought titles that I absolutely love to have, the only difference is that now I am able to pick up 2 for the price of 1. Who would be stupid enough to say, "This is too good of a deal to take advantage of, I'll wait until they're $30 again." Hes a hypocrit. You know anybody in the right mind will be taking advantage of any 2 for 1 deals, whether they be Blu-ray, HD DVD, DVD, or Little Debbies snacks I would have picked them up anyways, this just saved me money. I bought "The Invisible" and "Apocolypto". Great titles that I had planned on buying in the first place, but being as how I'm laid off I can't afford to spend tons of money.

That guy needs to be choked.

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by Footloose301

I like how he says that we are buying titles that we wouldn't have bought before. WTF is he thinking? I bought titles that I absolutely love to have, the only difference is that now I am able to pick up 2 for the price of 1. Who would be stupid enough to say, "This is too good of a deal to take advantage of, I'll wait until they're $30 again." Hes a hypocrit. You know anybody in the right mind will be taking advantage of any 2 for 1 deals, whether they be Blu-ray, HD DVD, DVD, or Little Debbies snacks I would have picked them up anyways, this just saved me money. I bought "The Invisible" and "Apocolypto". Great titles that I had planned on buying in the first place, but being as how I'm laid off I can't afford to spend tons of money.

That guy needs to be choked.

thanks for answering my question

Did he post an equivalent article about sad HD DVD fans who organized the same things not so long ago?

Were they buying titles they wouldn't have otherwise bought?

If he did then he's being fair..if he didn't then he is just another hypocrite in the long line of media hypocrites trying to do the very thing he is claiming blu fans are doing..influence the outcome.

Except we are using our own money

We did independent research to come to the conclusion that blu-ray was the better format on every level.

[Wheelman1970]

Probably not his fault - likely he was having his period and his man boobs were very sore.

[Nobody_of_importance]

... every vote does count.

Companies watch sales figures, and are are driven by money. Thats not all large companies are though, another part may be charitable as well. But just like you and I read forums, they also read sales figures with customer opinion and take note. Maybe they will not take notice and do what they want... but thats unlikely to last forever. They want us to buy and if they want to keep selling they need to deliver what the buyers want.

On that note... I like the personal attack strategy when debating anything. I'd naturally respond to anything with "Oh yeah... your mommas so fat, when she turns around a year has passed. Or Your momma smells so bad, when she went to the beach cats try to bury her in the sand."

Yeah I like to laugh at absurd humor... dont we all haha.

[Blu-Light]

The guy needs to get a life, his format of choice is getting ripped to shreads yet again with their 150 million dollar savior being beaten by catalog titles so he is lashing out. Soon the pain will be gone - once he has to go blu or not get HD media on a disc.

[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

[fronn]

The title is a little bit inflammatory and makes it a bit hard to take him seriously -- It's always hard to take a writer seriously who feels the need to insult and inflame just for viewers.

The same ridiculous things are done by both sides, so it's also a bit weird that he decides to single out one side especially (especially in the title like that).

I've watched HD DVD fans do even sillier things, so forgive me if I don't line up behind him and agree.

There are definitely some disappointing behaviors on both sides, no doubt.

[PS3FAN]

You sounded like a troll there for a minute.

[ryoohki]

It's in Human Nature that choose a side. There's a side to every thing

Look at Sport fan.. they always talk WE.

We Lost this week.... We is related to a group of people, in this case BluRay supporter..

[Slapper]

Originally Posted by PS3FAN

You sounded like a troll there for a minute.

I agree. You need to put that in

quotes

so folks don't get the wrong idea about you.