Michael Bay claims Microsoft fuelling HD DVD Vs Blu-ray war
The high definition, high storage DVD wars are still in full swing, and may be even murkier than most of us already believe them to be. Transformers director Michael Bay even thinks Microsoft is fuelling the battle for its own ends.
Michael Bay was asked a question on the forum of his official website about the format battle and his reply seems to imply he’s one of the tin foil hat wearing brigade, convinced that there’s a conspiracy lurking around every corner. He replied:
“What you don’t understand is corporate politics. Microsoft wants both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads. That is the dirty secret no one is talking about.”
“That is why Microsoft is handing out $100m 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.”
It’s true, and we all know it, that Microsoft is a big supporter of the HD DVD format: They support HD DVD only studios, and the Xbox 360 has an HD DVD add on drive, but to blame them for orchestrating a planned mission to keep the battle raging on is verging on the ludicrous.
Bay has already got a history in the format war, as after Paramount decided to make Transformers an HD DVD exclusive, abandoning dual releases on both formats, he insisted the studio would never get a Transfomers 2 out of him. Although he later retracted his statement, and a Transformers sequel is now in the planning, he is still a rabid Blu-ray fan.
Digital downloads, both of movies, and television is no doubt the future, and Microsoft will want to be a big player in that emerging, and ever growing market, but so do lots of other companies, Apple included, and quite why they’re not included in Bay’s rant is unsure. Maybe the fact that they support Blu-ray has something to do with it?
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