Bay caused a brouhaha on his blog (michaelbay.com) by voicing his displeasure that Transformers would not be available on Blu-ray and that he was rethinking his plan to direct a sequel. The next day he backpedaled, but he is still upset about the format war.
"It's short-sighted and it has delayed consumers' moving to HD (home video)," he says. "As a director, my critical eye is that Blu-ray is where my money is. Consumers are smart, and they are going to wait it out."
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Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
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very interesting.
However I must say, consumers aren't always that smart, bias is a large factor, they don't think 'Oh yeah 100 Gigabytes is better than 51, or 50 is better than 30", if the salesman is pro-microsoft they will say "yes blu-ray is an option, however, you want to get a HD-DVD because Transformers is coming out on HD-DVD and I mean what else is coming out on Blu-Ray?"
This is what a Myer salesman told me, if I was not aware of the specs and information about the formats I would be easily swayed to HD-DVD.
I then asked the salesman why he thought HD-DVD was better, he did not mention anything about space capacity he said this "well it's backed by Microsoft, so you know its good quality."
I was taken aback and a bit shocked to be honest, so then I questioned him with questions like "But isn't 50Gb better than 30, isn't 100 GB better than 51GB?"
And he got very defensive, and continued to hit the same point of Microsoft backing it so you know it's going to win.
So you know, it isn't always the consumers fault, many many people are unawares of the features, specifications and are blindsighted. I mean you'd think, double the storage capacity = better technology = more sales, but consumers don't even know anything about that, so at the moment it seems very airy fairy and out there.
I remember another salesman said Plasma was outselling LCD and LCD was far worse to Plasma, then I questioned him about bruned in images, viewing angles, brightness, contrast ratios and he was taken aback than I actually knew my stuff.
Anyway I hope the better technology wins, because well, I want better technology, I'd like to back up my whole hard rive on one blu-ray, not multiple hd-dvds etc.
Blu-Ray for me mate!
(bubbles ;P)
the end of HD-DVD? possibly
EDIT; ok bubbles for # 1
Not that I need to see the movie again just yet but if I do, DVD is the way to go for Blu-Ray users.
I think Michael Bay is just pissed that Paramount let Spielberg choose his format for his movies and didn't let him choose what format he wanted. He probably doesn't give a damn which format his movies go to, he just wants to get the same respect that Spielberg gets. Well, until he makes a great movie, he won't.
same i just buy transformer for dvd..looks better anyways. transformer would of sell like crazy if it was on blue ray