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Posted by Derek Janssen on 01/11/08 20:42
mark johnson wrote:
> "The alMIGHTY N" <natlee75@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:c8aec39f-b772-45a8-b118-8ee567c06aaf@h11g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
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>>On Jan 10, 7:31 pm, "mark johnson" <mark-john...@freeola.com> wrote:
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>>>"TheGame" <n0n0n0n...@excite.com> wrote in message
>>>
>>>news:1b8ed06e-a905-4cbe-a8ee-eb4d7eb2de82@i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>>>Me thinks it was more about the $500 million sony gave WB than the
>>>number of PS3s sold...
>>>
>>>Nope, no pay off
>>>
>>>Warner Home Entertainment President Kevin Tsujihara says the studio took
>>>no
>>>pay-offs to exclusively back Blu-ray.
>>>
>>>"This decision was one hundred percent around what makes the most sense
>>>for
>>>the consumer, the retailer and the industry. This was not a bidding war.
>>>This was all about what was best, strategically, for us."
>>>
>>>http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/show/1327
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>>You believe everything that the head of a studio says? Let's say for a
>>minute that the story is true and Warner Bros. did accept a $500
>>million payout to drop HD DVD support. Do you really think the head of
>>Warner Bros. would be so quick to admit that to the public after the
>>backlash against Paramount for accepting "Shrek licensing money" that
>>was only one-fifth of that amount?
By the same token, would a company even WANT to accept that money after
the studio-crushing backlash that Paramount got?
(And which Warner held out on at the time, because they still had to
protect their investment in TotalHD, and had the benefit of sitting back
and watching the long and short-term effect on the studio that *did*
take the thirty-pieces?)
It may have been the Mistake that Ended the War.
Derek Janssen
ejanss1@verizon.net
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