If sales are doubling every week, then Fox was only selling 4,000 Blu-Ray as of a month ago.

It IS his job to lie. He's not going to lose his job for doing a good job at it. Z is right - marketing = propaganda.

What's happening here is the BOSE effect. BD is spending it's money on flash and marketing and not where it should - substance. Their discs use an inferior codec and don't even bother to port over extras. And, just like BOSE, they charge more money for an inferior product. Then they trumpet false sales numbers and misrepresent existing ones, then extrapolate them to ridiculous proportions.

It's not personal. I don't think it's too much ask for studio reps to be truthful, do you?

Can we keep that in mind everytime we see Mr. MS HD/DVD Insider Amir's info posted here?

You will need these:

http://www.seen-on-tv.ws/hd-vision/hdvision.html

And at less than $20, its a steal!!!

He's a valuable resource, but I take everything any 'insider' says with a grain of salt. The people I trust the most are the ones without agendas, and those tend to be the ones who disappear (like CJPlay).

I don't get why it's "illegal" to allegedly badmouth a studio but people are completely allowed to bash real people.

The Fox guy is exagerating. Every salesman or marketing person I have ever met does so. Unless everyone buying BD is buying B&M and on Foxstore.com, the sales figures do not jive with the quotes. There has been gains by BD recently because alot of people got a PS3 for Christmas and a bunch of people are going to two systems (HD-DVD and BD) - just look at this board - and BD is selling to this huge influx of new people. After the holidays and this surge of new buyers calm down, I feel everything will get back to normal and sales should be about even unless the HD-DVD drought continues. I know I have been purchasing in the last few weeks, BDs and not HD-DVD. Tonight I ordered a little of each. Going foward I would expect alot of us with both systems will be buying a few from both sides on a regular basis and that will skew the numbers a little more in BD's favor since we were buying only HD-DVD.

Don't think this has been posted yet...


http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/01/09...f-hybrid-disc/

Interesting that they state that it will be able to hold dual layers of both HD DVD and Blu-ray. I wonder if it is going to be a flipper then, or they can actually do 4 layers on one side.

Oh good lord, digipacks already? (At least, that's what it looks like.) I know I'm in the minority, but I don't care for them.

I was also hoping for a purple case. We'll see what the spine looks like.

I don't like digipaks either... and that is one ugly looking cover, I also would've preferred purple.

I'm pretty sure that is just a slipcase over a clear case.

Also I bet one spine is blue and the other is red.

I originaly thought this was the worst idea since the snapper, but if it can do dual layer for both format it may not be such a bad thing. However, if it looked like that on the shelf, no chance in hell I buy it over one of the regular versions. That case is awful, make it a purple case or a yellow case or a green case or a clear case whatever, but do not do that 50/50 cover border crap - it looks cheap and tacky.

Huh. I actually don't mind it. I guess I'm the only one.

Don't overlook this from Engadget:

I don't mind the TotalHD case either, for what it's worth. I wouldn't say I like it, exactly, but it's not any worse than either of the other formats.

LOL - Superman... probably the only title those colors look good with.

THD,short for Total High Def, would be a good moniker for the next gen dvd's, if the formats were combined.

The Fox rep is not a real person? I should believe a Microsoft guy and not a Fox one?

I still don't trust that the Total HD titles will be less than $40 street price.

Never said he wasn't.

And We are winning the war in IRAQ........Just like anyone in the world that is a leader , it is about selling BS to the public in order to further your agenda

Would you rather the Fox guy said

"EVERYONE we are DOOM , SALES ARE BAD AND SHIT MAN I AM GETTING FIRED NEXT WEEK" or " I am personanly selling 70,000 a week, this time next year it will be 300,000 a week and by 2020 it will be 900,000,000,000,000 EUROS A WEEK"

Unless there is some huge run up in HD-DVD players, there should be only about 30 from Paramount. Saving Private Ryan I think is one title.

Honestly I think Universal was taken by surprise as well as the rest of the HD-DVD camp with all the announcements. I think to a point they were trying to save face and say 'hey look we got a lot of titles coming out too but we aren't going to name them'

I think content will be king and with all of the new releases on the horizon for BD it looks kind of grim. I think it's going to be a long year.

This is taking a huge chance though to wait until there is a concentration. It's that chicken and egg theory. If the content isn't there no one will buy any players. If people see tons more movies and a lot more variety from BD then they'll more likely choose BD or vice versa. Most people don't look as far ahead in advance like most of us do to see what new releases are coming. I've still think though the mass market is not going to buy into either format because for most people they think DVD is enough.

I didn't mind it either, but for some reason it reminds me of VCD. Don't ask me why. I too would have preferred a purple case.