Re: BREAKING NEWS: Warner Goes Blu-ray only

TIME TO DUMP WHAT FEW NON PARAMOUNT TITLES I HAVE ON EBAY.

So they claim that their stance is to keep supporting both formats before Christmas, then "coincidentally" wait until after the holiday shopping season to drop their bomb? Had I known, I wouldn't have bought Oceans 13 on HD DVD. I think I'm going to boycott Warner titles for a long time on any format.

[Post edited by Soapflake on Jan 4, 2008]

Know what? I'll just repost my thoughts in each thread and see which sticks more:

First...good news is that maybe we'll get to a one format system. CES is ahead and who knows what will happen there. I really don't care, I DO have both regardless of who I support.

What I DO find sad is that Warner waited until after the holidays, after those people were beginning to start a library of HD-DVDs, AFTER people already plunked down money for their new players and their DVDs and THEN said "oops, sorry, we're done....but thanks for your cash!" Even $ony and M$ don't pull that much of a fast one.

That, and now you know we'll all get screwed on players and DVD prices. Bye Bye BOGO offers.

I dunno....Warner's tactic really makes me think if I even want to buy any more HD media. It was pretty scummy of them to pull this now and stick the new adoptors with junk. Universal and New Line and Paramount are still in the game for now.

Well, either Sony finally gets a win in forcing people into their media OR we reject it wholesale until the next round of home media. I want to think positive about this, but Sony has never instilled confidence in me.

Guys, all is not lost for HD. You still have Paramount/Dreamworks. That $150 million is paying off HUGE!!!! I mean...you'll see the HD release of...well probably...

JServo... I agree with you completely, Warners act was despicable! I think $ony are greedy overpriced, this kinda sucks for a lot of people.

as well as, lets be honest, BRDA now has very little incentive to lower prices, thus slowing the adoption rate of the format. JQP can plunk down $200 or less much easier than $400 (which is the cost to get a current gen Blu Ray player that'll do what a HD-DVD player can do now).

Well, the PS3 IS a good upconverter DVD player, since I refuse to buy WB HD movies after this. Had they done it earlier, I don't think it'd be as much an issue, but screwing consumers like this is horrible business.

JServo,

Warner is the parent co. of NEWLINE studios. They will also fall into this deal.

JServo, if SONY is as half of the bad company you say that they are, do you think that they care if the small amount of upset consumers boycott their format. The market is so small anyway and they already know that at least a 1/3 of the current HDDVD owners will buy a Blu ray player or a PS3 right away to correct their wrong for buying HDDVD in the first place. I'm happy that WB will be Blu in 4 months but ultimately it is the consumer that looses and that is a same. Bottom line is that any HDDVD supporters that don't switch will be considered collateral damage and life will move on because of the fact the the HD disc market is so small it won't hurt them.

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Well, the PS3 IS a good upconverter DVD player, since I refuse to buy WB HD movies after this. Had they done it earlier, I don't think it'd be as much an issue, but screwing consumers like this is horrible business.

I can understand why HD DVD exclusive people would be upset at Warner, but there was no "right time" that Warner could have done this without upsetting anyway. At least Warner didn't "pull a Paramount".

Next time studio and corporate execs are "spreading rumors", we should listen. There were at least two studio people interviewed that Warner was rumored to be going Blu-ray before or at CES - BEFORE Toshiba's first major price reductions on the HD-A2. Seemed every studio exec outside of Warner knew what the buzz was.

Do people really think Toshiba was the only Corporation to NOT KNOW what was going down? Is it any surprise now that Toshiba had a $199 then $99 fire sale on their A2 players? Is it any surprise that Toshiba didn't replace their flagship HD-AX2 when the third generation players came out?

If anything, I'd be angry at Toshiba. Blu-ray shills joked and prodded HD DVD fans about the $99 player sale as being a "consumer dumping" before the news went public. In retrospect....

At least for those consumers. they only paid $99. I paid four times that amount for my HD DVD player. As far as Warner not announcing this before the Toshiba player dump? I don't think Toshiba wanted them to. And 200,000 consumers is nothing really compared to had this gone on another 2 years, along with the accumulation of bought media. 10's of millions of consumers were affected by Beta.

Anyway, that's it. I suspect that Paramount/Dreamworks will try and opt out of their exclusivity contract by May. HD DVD probably wont be "dead" for awhile yet, but it is relegated to a temporary niche format in any case.