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Published Nov 2, 2007 DVD Town's James Plath reports on a two-day Blu-ray media event.

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kucoloco

Nov 3, 2007 - CDT 10:05 AM

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Shouldn't Hi-Def have High Definition as it's first objective? What sense does it make to release a title that was transferred to disc at a lower bit-rate than the theatrical release, just so you can add a making-of feature?

anyone else think theres something wrong with this? )

Tim Raynor

Nov 3, 2007 - CDT 10:22 AM

says... It looks fake . . . very fake!

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anyone else think theres something wrong with this? )

Actually, no. It makes perfect sense. The real question is how could you not understand it?

And before you go off on a smear campaign over what James wrote I will remind you that he has been a well respect writer for DVDTOWN for many years. Therefore, I will back his word over any issue a fanboy would choose to take up with him. If you have an issue with James, then you have one with me.

Best of luck.

hoodaguy

Nov 3, 2007 - CDT 10:44 AM

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We weren't smearing his article. We know he is a respected writer, and has been around here for a while. We just had a problem with the "facts" that Sony provided as BD benefits.

"200+ BD supporters versus a handful of HD supporters" <-- that's what I call embellishing. Now if you can't see that, then maybe you are the fanboy.

rpruthee

Nov 3, 2007 - CDT 11:49 AM

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you would probably see the reverse in any HD-DVD conference. 200+ HD supporters and handful of BD supporters..nothing to worry about. I have high respect for James P and his views. I am with him on this.

hoodaguy

Nov 3, 2007 - CDT 11:58 AM

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Probably? We don't know that for sure. But what we do know is that Sony does like to fudge numbers by counting "free" movies as a unit. It's in their nature.

rpruthee

Nov 3, 2007 - CDT 12:18 PM

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I think Toshiba does the same too.. 5 free movies for almost 18 months now plus other free hd-dvds occassionally.. don't for a minute think that HD-DVD camp does not fudge numbers.. This free stuff has to go somewhere.. Both camps are culprits .. take the sales data with a grain of salt.

Tim Raynor

Nov 3, 2007 - CDT 12:19 PM

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Probably? We don't know that for sure. But what we do know is that Sony does like to fudge numbers by counting "free" movies as a unit. It's in their nature.

Funny how fanboys will say anything to make them feel better.

hoodaguy

Nov 3, 2007 - CDT 12:28 PM

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rpruthee, we've already seen that Best Buy receipts count the "free" BD from BOGO as not free, but both discs as 50 percent off. Therefore, that would count as a sales unit for each.

Show me some proof on HD side, and then maybe I'd agree with you. But for now, I can't because I haven't seen anything like that on that side. If it was true, then HD would obviously have bypassed BD right now with all the free movies.

hoodaguy

Nov 3, 2007 - CDT 12:29 PM

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Oh, and one more thing Tim:

Fan-boy [fan-boi] -noun

1. A person with a limited vocabulary.
2. Someone who's only goal in life is to call other people fanboys repeatedly.
3. Tim Raynor.