B. Hunt No More Advertising from HD DVD - Blu-ray Forum

Blu Titan · 01-28-2008, 01:14 AM

WOW...A surprise Sunday post from B. Hunt informing that The Digital Bits will not accept advertising of any form from HD DVD, because the format war is over. I will not post the article here, since it is always good for Bill to get some "hits" in his place. Darn it, I should have rephrased the title of the thread. It is a little deceiving, gives the impression that HD DVd will stop advertising the format. Sorry about that.

http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents

ezcobar411 · 01-28-2008, 01:20 AM

Bill is a good man

JasonR · 01-28-2008, 01:22 AM

I got what you meant. That's a good thing...

Sonny · 01-28-2008, 01:23 AM

no more HDDVD advertisements from digibits SWEET!

SBrooks1 · 01-28-2008, 01:23 AM

Good

kaliraver · 01-28-2008, 01:26 AM

Bill donesn't need any money from the losing format.

hubcityrider · 01-28-2008, 01:34 AM

Read this myself a few minutes before i saw this post. Truly Great News!!!

RUR · 01-28-2008, 01:51 AM

Bill's putting his money where his mouth is. Good for him.

sj001 · 01-28-2008, 02:06 AM

Hehehe, nice one!

You rock Bill!

TheRealBob · 01-28-2008, 02:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BlueNeon

Darn it, I should have rephrased the title of the thread. It is a little deceiving, gives the impression that HD DVd will stop advertising the format. Sorry about that.

You can still fix it, I believe. Just hit Edit, then when you're editing, hit Edit again (yes, strange but true).

FC4L · 01-28-2008, 02:31 AM

First post! Yeah for me!!! Anyways, good news from the DB front.

Sidenote, anyone else having trouble accessing their site? My browser just times out and I've cleared my cache, cookcies, pretty much everything I can think of. The site just doesn't work (which is a shame!)

NovaKane · 01-28-2008, 02:42 AM

The RED-rum boys are going to have a field day with this move, as Bill ("The Shill", their words, not mine) Hunt is their mortal enemy.

To hell with them. I applaud his move and am proud to have someone who champions the hi-def cause with such passion, as Bill does, on the side of Big Blu.

The fact that Digital Bits would be willing to sacrifice income from HD-DVD PRG in order to avoid a conflict of interest, and to maintain integrity, really displays where their heart is at...and that is to promote the future of High-def for the benefit of all fans who love movies.

EricJ · 01-28-2008, 02:44 AM

So...there were other advertisers on the site besides Lionsgate Films and Sideshow Collectibles??

elwaylite · 01-28-2008, 02:45 AM

They are giving Bill a hard time here:

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=39469

RUR · 01-28-2008, 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FC4L

First post! Yeah for me!!! Anyways, good news from the DB front.

Sidenote, anyone else having trouble accessing their site? My browser just times out and I've cleared my cache, cookcies, pretty much everything I can think of. The site just doesn't work (which is a shame!)

Nope, no trouble accessing the site here. Here's the relevant stuff:

Quote:

The other thing that we wanted to let you all know today, is that we've officially stopped accepting advertising from the HD-DVD camp. Since the format war began, both camps have been free to advertise on The Bits, within limits of good taste of course. We even allowed the HD-DVD camp to continue advertising on The Bits, if they wanted to do so, after we officially endorsed Blu-ray Disc. But now that Warner has made their decision to abandon HD-DVD, we've obviously said we no longer believe that HD-DVD can win the format war. As such, we've decided that we're no longer comfortable accepting advertising money from the HD-DVD camp for that format. We actually made this decision - and informed our ad partners - shortly after returning from CES, but especially given our editorial on Friday, we wanted to let all of you know as well. You may occasionally see ads from a retailer with an HD-DVD logo (we believe Amazon has lately been running banners promoting sales of both high-def formats), but as of a couple weeks ago, we are officially no longer accepting or running specifically HD-DVD related ads from Toshiba, Microsoft or any member of the HD-DVD Promotions Group. We just figured this was the right thing to do going forward, so there you go.

Welcome to the forum!

JasonS · 01-28-2008, 02:49 AM

Great job Bill! I think we will start to see more and more web site doing this soon as well. I hope Paramount and Universal are really eating money left and right for not releasing on Blu-ray!

Zyclone · 01-28-2008, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kaliraver69

Bill donesn't need any money from the losing format.

the winning format gives him enough as it is

RUR · 01-28-2008, 02:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elwaylite

They are giving Bill a hard time here:

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=39469

Bill is a well-known, well-connected and, contrary the beliefs of those red-minded folks at HDD, influential figure. Since his agenda is contrary to their own, their only recourse is to claim he's a sellout/shill/idiot etc etc blah, blah blah.

Screw 'em. Unlike Bill, they're just a lot of inefectual hot air.

sj001 · 01-28-2008, 02:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elwaylite

They are giving Bill a hard time here:

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=39469

The red ants need to find something more useful to do with their time, like selling their players on E-Bay, and buying Blu-ray, before it's too late. Of course some of them are so blind, they can't see the forest for the trees.

NovaKane · 01-28-2008, 03:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elwaylite

They are giving Bill a hard time here:

http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=39469

Why am I not surprised. HDDigest, for a neutral site, is a haven for the most biased of HD-DVD supporters.

01-28-2008, 01:14 AM	#1
Blu Titan Super Moderator Top ranked HT gallery Top contributor Member since:Jul 2007 Location:Edo, Land of the Samurai Home Theater Gallery:42 4K collection:41 Blu-ray collection:2864 Blu-ray reviews: 2 Trading Score:92	B. Hunt No More Advertising from HD DVD WOW...A surprise Sunday post from B. Hunt informing that The Digital Bits will not accept advertising of any form from HD DVD, because the format war is over. I will not post the article here, since it is always good for Bill to get some "hits" in his place. Darn it, I should have rephrased the title of the thread. It is a little deceiving, gives the impression that HD DVd will stop advertising the format. Sorry about that. http://www.thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents Last edited by Blu Titan; 01-28-2008 at 01:17 AM.

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01-28-2008, 01:23 AM	#5
SBrooks1 Special Member Member since:Sep 2007	Good

01-28-2008, 01:26 AM	#6
kaliraver Blu-ray Samurai Member since:May 2007 Location:San Francisco Bay Blu-Ray SteelBooks™: (150+) Blu-ray collection:373 Blu-ray reviews:1 Trading Score:285	Bill donesn't need any money from the losing format.

01-28-2008, 01:34 AM	#7
hubcityrider Member Member since:Feb 2007	Read this myself a few minutes before i saw this post. Truly Great News!!!

01-28-2008, 01:51 AM	#8
RUR Blu-ray Guru Member since:Feb 2007 Location:Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit Blu-ray collection:143 Trading Score:1	Bill's putting his money where his mouth is. Good for him.

01-28-2008, 02:06 AM	#9
sj001 Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Aug 2007 Location:Rochester, NY Blu-ray collection:317 DVD collection:17 Trading Score:5	Hehehe, nice one! You rock Bill!

01-28-2008, 02:31 AM	#11
FC4L Banned Member since:Jan 2008 Home Theater Gallery:19 Blu-ray collection:1120	First post! Yeah for me!!! Anyways, good news from the DB front. Sidenote, anyone else having trouble accessing their site? My browser just times out and I've cleared my cache, cookcies, pretty much everything I can think of. The site just doesn't work (which is a shame!)

01-28-2008, 02:42 AM	#12
NovaKane Member Member since:Jan 2008 4K collection:9 Blu-ray collection:630 DVD collection:1	The RED-rum boys are going to have a field day with this move, as Bill ("The Shill", their words, not mine) Hunt is their mortal enemy. To hell with them. I applaud his move and am proud to have someone who champions the hi-def cause with such passion, as Bill does, on the side of Big Blu. The fact that Digital Bits would be willing to sacrifice income from HD-DVD PRG in order to avoid a conflict of interest, and to maintain integrity, really displays where their heart is at...and that is to promote the future of High-def for the benefit of all fans who love movies.

01-28-2008, 02:44 AM	#13
EricJ Banned Member since:Jul 2007 Location:The Paradise of New England Blu-ray collection:6	So...there were other advertisers on the site besides Lionsgate Films and Sideshow Collectibles??

01-28-2008, 02:45 AM	#14
elwaylite Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Mar 2007	They are giving Bill a hard time here: http://forums.highdefdigest.com/showthread.php?t=39469

01-28-2008, 02:49 AM	#16
JasonS Special Member Member since:Dec 2007 Location:Denver, CO Blu-ray collection:107 Trading Score:76	Great job Bill! I think we will start to see more and more web site doing this soon as well. I hope Paramount and Universal are really eating money left and right for not releasing on Blu-ray!

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