Posted by Derek Janssen on 11/09/07 00:10

Lloyd Parsons wrote:

>>>
>>>>http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/07/format-war-gets-more-warlike/
>>
>>>What a wonderful forum it was years ago.
>>
>>Over on the Blu-ray.com forums (like we're neutral either), AVS Forums
>>had become a symbolic punchline/buzzword for the schoolyard tactics and
>>general hinder-talking that was being demonstrated by the more rabid
>>HDDVD supporters as public support dwindled--
>>
>>Microsoft's own consumer media head Amir Majidimehr was a protected
>>"celebrity" on the HD forum and had been narcissistically self-promoting
>>King Bully on the playground--and with some of the most howling PR
>>propaganda/misinformation this side of Ken Graffeo--before he also had
>>to make an unscheduled exit from the Forums.
>>The kids on the BR forums would say "Did you see what they said this
>>week?--Let's go over there and get 'em!", and the regulars would calm
>>them down with "Why bother, they'll just make more..."
>
> in the meantime, the bluray forums were dropping anyone that said a
> disparaging word about anything bluray...

(In fact, "being banned from AVS", just because Amir said yo-mamma,
started to become something of a badge of honor, on BR.com--
At least for those who still bothered about AVS, and didn't just shake
their heads sadly.)

> AVS forums is more balanced that any of the fanboi sites/forums. For
> every rabid HDDVD freak, there are that many rabid Bluray freaks, both
> spouting misinformation at every increasing rates.

Yeah, Blu fans would go around spouting things like "Transformers HD
*still* couldn't get #1 sales vs. Blu-ray in its opening week", and "2/3
of first-time Joe-Sixpack customers who bought $99 Toshiba A2 players at
Wal-Mart last week LITERALLY weren't even aware of what they were buying
in response to the hype, and thought they were buying a 'magic DVD
player' that would turn everything HD--While the other third of longtime
disk fans confessed that they were intentionally just buying a cheap
upscaler, period"....

While the HD Forums were still giving their readers scare stories from
2006 about PS3's unable to upscale DVD's, and cheering their supporters
to the "news" that Warner had decided to release all their Harry Potter
movies as HD-only.

Derek Janssen (well, *they* believed it...)
ejanss1@verizon.net

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