Microsoft Fueling HD Wars For Own Benefit?

DaveyJJ writes "According to Transformers' director Michael Bay, in a story over on Electronista, Microsoft is deliberately feeding into the HD disc format wars to ensure that its own downloads succeed where physical copies fail, he says in a response to a question posed through his official forums. The producer contends that Microsoft is writing "$100 million dollar checks" to movie studios to ensure HD DVD exclusives that hurt the overall market regardless of the format's actual merit or its popularity, preventing any one format from gaining a clear upper hand."

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Re:Doesn't sound like Microsoft.

[Evil Adrian]

Thread parent is an unfunny Microsoft insult joke -- yet it's modded insightful?

This guy is modded down for his insult because he dared to rip on someone that was ripping on Microsoft?

The Slashdot moderation system fails again!

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