R&B Films to Exclude HD DVD for Future Releases
Posted by Dave Cowl
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Name: Dave Cowl
Email: dave@formatwarcentral.com
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About: Originally from New Zealand, Dave now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Dave's day job
involves developing high resolution LCoS projectors.
Dave also has a strong interest in cinema and film making, and has
always been an early adopter - he still uses his Sony DVP-S7000 DVD
Player and also owns first generation Blu-ray, HD DVD and DTheater
D-VHS equipment.
Dave has been following the HD Disc format war since the beginning,
which resulted in the Blu-ray Statistics and HD DVD Statistics
websites, designed to track the studio progress with features as they
have released HD media product.See Authors Posts (350) on January 20, 2008
Filed Under: Blu-ray, Format War, HD DVD, Studios
Richard Casey of R&B Films (who have released Chronos and Nature’s Beauty on both HD formats) has announced that "we are excluding HD-DVD with respect to our future releases" in a forum posting on blu-ray.com.
Richard said that this decision was made prior to Warner’s decision announcement and he cited "experience with the HD-DVD audience and the abuse I took in the AVS Forum" as his motivation to drop HD DVD support.
Personally I am not surprised and look forward to discs that continue to push the limits from R&B Films.
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I hope the mods at AVS are pleased with themselves!
Anyway it’s one more step on the road to total victory for Blu-ray.
The Guardian for biggest fanboy of the year?
In what way can a forum abuse a studio to dropping a format?
How would you feel about a format if you went to every effort to maximize the video and audio quality of your film, only to be ripped apart by people including insiders for that format?
Instead of debating the merits of the disc (which would be ok) and appreciating his time, effort and money, he was met with personal attacks and lies.
Is there a link to such action? So, either or both consumers and HD-DVD group attacked R&B for talking about issues or recommendtions? I see that his site has both formats of equal amounts.
Wtf, this guy switched sides because a few people were pissed off at him on a stupid forum! That is the worst excuse I have ever heard, the consumer controls your paycheck, not forum posters.
The forum posters are the consumers. His releases are targeted at high end enthusiasts such as the members of AVS Forum. Most of the criticism was due to the fact that the BDs he released had better specs (due to the higher bandwidth) and the HD DVD supporters were not happy about that. Then add to that the Microsoft FUD machine and no doubt lackluster sales…
Wonderful news, the future is blu!
They only released one good title, and thats IAL, which is coming to HD DVD anyway.