Posted by Derek Janssen on 09/19/07 04:30

RMZ wrote:
> On Sep 18, 4:02 pm, nob...@pseudo.borked.net (Super Mario) wrote:
>
>>"Paramount's move to release discs only in the HD-DVD format deals a
>>blow to Sony's Blu-ray camp and makes the bigger battle too close to
>>call..."
>>
>>Business Week article:http://301url.com/cah

What Toshiba and Microsoft THOUGHT we would say after the Bribe:
"Gosh, the war's just heating up!--Paramount made a radical choice to
the superior format!"

What the media analysts said after the Bribe:
"Gosh, the war's just heating up!--Paramount made a radical choice to
the superior format!"

What DVD customers *really* said to Toshiba and Microsoft after the Bribe:
"Oh, fer f***in' out loud, are you still HERE?????? >_< "

(Well, okay, so you can't fool everybody. -_- )

> The catalog:
> http://www.imdb.com/company/co0023400/
>
> To hit some highlights: All Mission Impossible Films, all Indiana
> Jones films (including thet one in production now), the Jurassic Park
> films, highest grossing movie of all time Titanic and last, but not
> least all Star Trek releases, including the season boxed sets to all
> television incarnations as well as the movies.

And when Paramount's exclusivity deal ends in (appropriately) 2009,
their future policies may swing on having learned a valuable lesson
about corporate PR.
Lesson 1: Don't get the SEC and the Department of Justice suspicious of
you.

Derek Janssen
ejanss1@comcast.net

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