The entertainment industry as a whole, ranging from music, movies and videogames, in one full of misunderstood concepts and business politics. Sometimes to ensure success, a corporation would do under the table deals in hopes that the public doesn’t learn about the activity, all legal of course.
One company that has been under the speculation of this sort of transaction is Microsoft. From many people’s analyses, Microsoft is favoring HD DVD for the sole reason because they want both formats including Blu-ray to fail. By doing this, it would allow them to bring in digital downloads as the newer video media form.
Michael Bay, an outspoken Hollywood individual had this to say:
“What you don’t understand is corporate politics. Microsoft wants both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads. That is the dirty secret no one is talking about. That is why Microsoft is handing out USD 100 million dollar checks to studios just embrace the HD DVD and not the leading, and superior Blu Ray. They want confusion in the market until they perfect the digital downloads. Time will tell and you will see the truth.”
So could this also be the reason why Microsoft created the HD DVD add-on for the Xbox 360? It’s a possibility, but with Blu-ray currently in the lead, we could be seeing a definite winner in Sony’s high definition format, thus thwarting Microsoft’s plans if they are indeed true.
Source: Blu-ray