Friday, December 7th 2007
Michael Bay Accuses Microsoft of Conspiracy
This is rather unusual story, at least for me, but according to a statement made by Michael Bay, producer of Transformers, Armageddon (1998) and other movies, Microsoft wants both HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc to fail "so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads."
Source:
TeamXbox
That is the dirty secret no one is talking about. That is why Microsoft is handing out $100 million dollar checks to studios just embrace the HD DVD and not the leading, and superior Blu Ray. They want confusion in the market until they perfect the digital downloads. Time will tell and you will see the truth.
I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For them to deny people who have Blu-ray sucks! They were progressive by having two formats. No Transformers 2 for me!The story will finish with your opinions?
59 Comments on Michael Bay Accuses Microsoft of Conspiracy
Stop whining about Blu Ray its expensive and a waste of money, sorry but a hd dvd player is cheaper by far and there is no difference in quality at all. To be honest if he was talking about storage then its still cheaper to do it other ways, for example if i have a large collection of music and i want to take it to my friends im gonna put it on my mp3 player or removable/usb/esata/firewire hardrive.
Really who is gong to buy a blu ray player for thier pc? or a hd dvd drive for that matter but at least pc users can buy the xbox addon coz its compatible and really cheap.
None games except ps3 shitty mc shit fanny bawz, really none pc games use hd dvd/blu ray disks.
Who cares if Microsoft want to move to downloads as long as dvds are still around who cares.
SONY SHOULD STICK TO TVS AND SOUND DEVICES eg MP3, STEREOS ect thats what it used to reign at but look since it focused on crushing Microsoft its other products have decreased in quality.
LOL AT SONY ITS VIAO LAPTOPS USE MICROSOFT WINDOWS SO THEY BASICALLY PAY THEIR COMPETITION, dont even try to compete with Microsoft ever since the ps3 came out they have been trying to replace windows forget about it.
What about the war between walkmans and apple ipods lol walkman was the brand of choice for cd players tapew players and then ipod crushed it.
I used to like Sony it was like a quality product now well its neglected some of its other divisions.
All the Movies and Movie trailers are really starting to pick up now.
And with this the Blu Ray and HD DVD movie studios are backing up the digital downloads service so its a win win for Microsoft lol:laugh:
any way not liked any of his films.
forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=46088&page=3
Anyway, this isn't really a conspiracy. Microsoft is working a a digital movie service just like iTunes... Its not like MS is just going to sit around and let Apple reap all the benefits. HOWEVER, wether MS is trying to corporately screw with the movie industry, that's something that like Michael Bay said, "Only time will tell".
Personally I think it would be stupid of us to call him wrong, because we really don't know either.
Also, in my opinion we are quickly approaching the downfall of media on discs or vhs, or any other type of device. EDIT: Things like the Apple TV (Apple TV) are proving this everyday, even though its price doesn't represent it to be ready for a large consumer base. I will personally be happy to see the demise of VHS and Disc, I hate how much space a large movie collection takes up in one's house, I also hate how they always tear up (scratches, misuse, abuse, ect...)
I was just browsing teamxbox while downloading the latest GTA 4 trailer from their site (dont hate me TPU I just get a better download rate from them than here thats all:laugh:)
There is no intelligence, or goodwill, behind his comments. Only greed.
but seriously, which company doesnt want to rule the world?
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Since both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD can use the same codecs (MPEG-2, Microsoft Video Codec 1 (aka VC1, WMV HD, etc.), H.264 / MPEG-4 AVC) why would this be the case?
Due to the tighter track pitch (.65 for HD, .85 for Blu-Ray) Blu-Ray is capable of storing more data than HD, but if that data is the stored in the same video format (codec) why would it look any different?
Unless the studio making the disks is using an inferior codec, I don't see how there would be any difference.
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I'm not trying to support Michael Bay here or anything, I'm just telling you how I feel about both players.