Posted by Derek Janssen on 08/21/07 01:16

Derek Janssen wrote:

> Lloyd Parsons wrote:
>
>>>> What this really means is that the 'format war' for the 2% market
>>>> share that these two formats have will be in full swing for the
>>>> holidays. Personally I hope it keeps going. This war is the only
>>>> thing that got prices down to their current levels.
>>>
>>>
>>> Only the utterly dopiest media-analyst zombie would be gullible
>>> enough to believe press statements of "We chose the format", or be
>>> blinded by title-association to print "Will Transformers and Shrek
>>> win the war?" spins as if they believed them themselves.
>
>
> (And whether or not anybody's read recent headlines of Dreamworks'
> crumbling brain-trust and defecting execs--thus making them very, VERY
> easy for outside forces to bribe, not unlike the 1919 White Sox...
> Is anybody missing the rather obvious factor of Jeffrey Katzenberg and
> his Big Green Pal willing to let DW Animation partner themselves with
> Micro so easily, what with Disney now pulling ahead of Sony as main
> driving Blu-Ray Evangelism Spokes-studio?

In fact, with his characteristic taste, subtlety and bipartisanship
("Fox and MGM Roar Back on Blu-ray; Paramount and DreamWorks Slink
Suspiciously Away"), Scott Hentrick at HollywoodinHiDef.com seems to
have picked up on the connection:

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....And given the fact that DreamWorks’ Jeffrey Katzenberg has been
public about his lack of belief in hi-def discs in general as a viable
new platform (he said he would rather focus on putting all future DW
animated movies out in 3-D), one has to wonder if the driver behind this
decision had less to do with a belief in one format’s strengths and more
to do with other incentives.
---

(Oh, yeah, really love those "dead DVD's", don't we, Jeff?
Or wait, it's going to be really "the future of those X-box downloads",
isn't it?)

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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