Warner Announcement Could Alert the Watchdog?

[Elven6]

I was browsing through my normal blogs today, and I came across this one "petition" or what ever you want to call it. The guy who owns this site made it for one purpose, and that is to support HD DVD, he creates petitions, etc and apparently his site is visited by a ton of people who want to help out.

I was looking through his recent posts today and I noticed something that, well stood out. He had posted a well typed up letter and a explanation about how the Warner announcement could violate consumer soveringty, in turn this could be brought to the attention of a governments watch dog Beauru.

I don't want to go into great deal about what hes saying, so you could check it out yourselfs. If this guy knows what he is talking about, and enough people send their letters in, Warner aswell as the BDA might be investigated.

Link

Personally, I hope hes right, and I hope their actually is something they can investigate, for obious reasons. (Check my sig) What are your views?

[Gizmo356]

Just let HD-DVD die in peace its had enough.

[JKKDARK]

That's good to know, we should support hddvd heavily

[Shadowblind]

Just let HD-DVD die in peace its had enough.

Even though I hate Sony doesn't mean I want them to die.

Don't be an ***.

[Elven6]

Just let HD-DVD die in peace its had enough.

A. Its not dead, studios and companies are not done supporting it, if one stops it has the other.

B. Consumer sovereignty would be at risk if this is true!

I hope they get enough response so we can get a clear cut answer on this.

[Mazu]

Shadowblind, Sony is not HD-DVD.

Also i could care less what happens to HD-DVD but i dislike attacks on Blue-ray and i would consider this one. It was the companies choice to switch format so let them. At least, that is my opinion.

[F9zDark]

I was browsing through my normal blogs today, and I came across this one "petition" or what ever you want to call it. The guy who owns this site made it for one purpose, and that is to support HD DVD, he creates petitions, etc and apparently his site is visited by a ton of people who want to help out.

I was looking through his recent posts today and I noticed something that, well stood out. He had posted a well typed up letter and a explanation about how the Warner announcement could violate consumer soveringty, in turn this could be brought to the attention of a governments watch dog Beauru.

I don't want to go into great deal about what hes saying, so you could check it out yourselfs. If this guy knows what he is talking about, and enough people send their letters in, Warner aswell as the BDA might be investigated.

Link

Personally, I hope hes right, and I hope their actually is something they can investigate, for obious reasons. (Check my sig) What are your views?

Why? Blu-Ray has violated no laws. In fact if anything should be investigated its HD-DVD; its biggest "supporter" has been to court on anti-trust lawsuits in both the US and Europe.

Added: How about reading up on Consumer Sovereignty first before throwing it around like it means something important to HD-DVD.

From Wikipedia

In unrestricted markets, those with income or wealth are able to use their purchasing power to motivate producers as what to produce (and how much). Customers do not necessarily have to buy and, if dissatisfied, can take their business elsewhere, while the profit-seeking sellers find that they can make the greatest profit by trying to provide the best possible products for the price (or the lowest possible price for a given product). In the language of cliché, "he who pays the piper calls the tune."

What I put in BOLD is exactly what is happening with the format war. Those with the income out there, that make the world go round, are making the decisions and backing it up with money to see which format wins.

And it isn't a "law" or something the economy has to abide by; it is merely an economical school of thought, in other words, a big "what if?"

[Triv1um]

So why does this need to be in the PS3 section?

Nothing to do with PS3 or blu-ray. Youre just trying to start a format flamewar (AGAIN!)

Nothing is wrong, people are fighting for a dying cause.

[Tree]

Wtf Is With Everyone Just Let Hd Dvd Go, Whats Makes It Better Than Blu-ray ... Nothing ... So Why Do You Want To Keep It So Bad ... To Try And Make Ps3 Look Bad ... Well Its Basilcy Dead ... And Its Gonna Need Loads Of Help To Become Alive Again ...

[F9zDark]

I don't understand why people are "trying" to defame Blu-Ray and get "watchdog groups" on its case. Format wars hurt consumers and always have. Did the government step in when Beta-Max failed? No. And at the time, Beta-Max WAS SUPERIOR to VHS. Poor business decisions and vastly more expensive than VHS is what killed it.

But no one came onto the defense of Beta-Max and took down VHS.

Now the playing field is different. Blu-Ray isn't that much more expensive than HD-DVD and most Blu-Ray movies I have seen at stores and online sell for around the same price if not less than HD-DVD movies (so Blu-Ray being more expensive doesn't affect us who buy movies and games; Xbox360 games on DVD are the same price as PS3 games on Blu-Ray... Only when buying blank discs is it more expensive on the consumer end, otherwise the companies are eating the cost to keep it competitively priced.)

Why is this even "news" is beyond me. It offers NOTHING news worthy and nothing will happen to Blu-Ray for winning. This format war is the very essence of capitalism; to have the government intervene would be very bad for the future of our economy, in that companies would then be unwilling to offer new, competing products. Imagine the console wars of the next generation should the government step in now with this?

Maybe next generation, Microsoft will pay off the government and claim foul play on the likes of Nintendo and Sony and we won't be allowed to buy their next-gen consoles? Or vice versa. That would be very, very bad for us.