Michael Bay to Paramount: No Transformers 2 for me!
I want people to see my movies in the best formats possible. For them to deny people who have Blu-ray sucks! They were progressive by having two formats. No Transformers 2 for me!
Bay
Source:Â http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2299
It looks like Bay will be a Blu-ray supporter as well. So much for the HD-DVD comeback.
This is why people aren’t sure if you are a joke site or not. . . This is actual news and the slant isn’t nearly as funny as normal.
Freaken awesome! If anything can change the tide of the format wars its an aside by Michael Bay of all people.
Finally Sony can relive the glory of its previous format war wins: Beta, Mini-disc, UMD!
I’m so pumped by this.
Hehe. Too bad Michael Bay reversed his opinion already
http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=31217&highlight=#31217
“As a director, I’m all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.
So today I saw 300 on HD, it rocks!
So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!”
Its ok he came to his senses, just like all the companies and movie makers who are not under Sonys monopolistic business model.
He posted this when he saw how superior HD DVD was and how stupid bluray fanboys are.
“Last night at dinner I was having dinner with three Blu-Ray owners, they were pissed about no Transformers Blu-Ray and I drank the kool aid hook line and sinker. So at 1:30 in the morning I posted – nothing good ever comes out of early am posts mind you – I over reacted. I heard where Paramount is coming from and the future of HD and players that will be close to the $200 mark which is the magic number. I like what I heard.
As a director, I’m all about people seeing films in the best quality possible, and I saw and heard firsthand people upset about a corporate decision.
So today I saw 300 on HD-DVD, it rocks!
So I think I might be back on to do Transformers 2!
Michael Bay”
He also added
“My friends suck ass for owning PS3, I think they are mindless corporate drones, easily led sony fanboys. I like games where I blow shit up just like in my movies, give me Gears of War anyday, in fact that will be my next film”
He said all that without an hint of irony.
Actually he didn’t. I did.
Cheerio!
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. Owned.
seriously, dudes – parody site or not – he retracted – he’s on board for HD-DVD exclusivity for the Paramount Titles, and expresses potential interest in continuing involvement with the Transformers franchies.
So, you gonna do the decent thing and at least follow up with a fake update to this post to carry on the joke?
Don’t hold your breath. Sony fanboyism knows no bounds.
At the ridiculous bitrates offered by HD-DVD and Bluray I think most people would be hard pressed to see any difference between either format at 1080p.
However, the fact that the HD-DVD standard includes internet connectivity to provide up-to-the minute content that can be added to and viewed during your movie watching experience, in my mind, makes it superior to Bluray. With Bluray, you are stuck with the content when it leaves the duplicators, but with HD-DVD, that content can be updated throughout the life of the title.
Also, Bluray features Blu-Wizard which feels like a an afterthought tack-on for browsing interactive content on Bluray disks. The functionality built into HD-DVD is superior to Bluray on this count as well.
So what if Bluray has a higher video and audio bitrate? You’d have to be genetically spliced with an eagle and a dog to be able to tell the difference. But as to the functionality aspects, I think HD-DVD owns Bluray hands down.
When $200 HD-DVD players hit the market during this Christmas season, that will be the beginning of the end for Bluray. Historically Sony’s attempts to control mass market media formats has been a pretty dismal failure: VHS vs. Betamax, MD vs CD-R, UMD vs DVD, Atrac vs. MP3 and now this.
If I were a betting man, I’d say Sony’s chances with Bluray are from slim to none based soley on their past performance and their history in this regard.
@taygee
Obviously they aren’t. They gave bioshock a 5/10 for fucks sake.
And to think that I was going to be the first one to say that Bay retracted his opinion…lol. Although Blu-Ray appears to be winning, I just don’t see why. Sure, it has 50gb versus 25gb, but there’s a such as compression, Blu-Ray is expensive, and it doesn’t have all the HD-DVD features.
1 movie wont change the format wars. Transformers wasent even good and most people would consider this god news because if another transformers movie comes out it might be made by someone who can actually direct
you should do an editorial to this article since he IS doing transformers 2
i’ve said this before and i’ll say it again….. MICHAEL BAY HAS NO CREDIBILITY