Michael Bay eats his words, now supports HD-DVD
By Sean P. Aune
For those of you keeping score, Michael Bay has announced his support of both High Definition DVD formats in the span of 36 hours.
Showing a complete lack of spine, or perhaps a realization he should have thought before engaging his mouth, Michael Bay has changed sides in the HD DVD format war in the span of a day and a half.
On Tuesday, he made the announcement on his forums “…No Transformers 2 for me!” when discussing the fact that Paramount Studios had dropped the Blu-Ray format, the format he preferred.
It seems he has now had a drink of the Kool-Aid, as he put it.
Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three Blu-Ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-Ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted – nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you – I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.
As a director, I’m all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.
So today I saw 300 on HD-DVD, it rocks!
So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!
Michael Bay
One is not sure which one to believe now. Was the Blu-Ray statement that of a man who was going to stand his ground, or is the HD-DVD comment one of someone bowing to their corporate overlords?
Only time will tell for sure, but for now, another supporter of HD-DVD as the format war winner has entered the ring.
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