At the Microsoft House at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Jeff Bell from KCPW (not the other Jeff Bell from Microsoft) and Jason and Craig from the Sidetrack crashed a private party and chatted with Kevin Collins from Microsoft about the fight between HD DVD and Blu-Ray.
Kevin gets the whole argument because, despite a few days of searching the Film Festival, Jeff couldn't find anyone willing to defend Blu-Ray.
This podcast is a bit geeky, so, you've been warned.
Notes: Kevin Collins is a director in the Microsoft Consumer Media Technology Group; KCPW is a radio station in Salt Lake City, Utah, which broadcasts programming from NPR, BBC, PRI as well as local programming.
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A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
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Bluray won, HD DVdead lost. Sony stomped on HD DVD, and they're getting ready now to stomp on the Xflop 180.
Kevin Collins says waaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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HD DVD lost... face it... the sooner you make a blu ray drive for the 360 the better.
1 - now that BR has won people will actually buy it since they dont have to pick between HD dvd and BR so now the sales wont cannibalize eachother
2 you can make money
what more does MS need
have some integrity man.
The whole world is turning blu-ray. Microsoft support HD-DVD. That's okay. I understand they cant suddenly diss it or they will look like failures and upset Toshiba.
-But the 'Hd-dvd is best, but we cant wait to work on blu-ray crap' is disgusting. FLIP-FLOP. Microsoft. Take a side. stand by it. or even change your side. But dont try and please everyone with your FLIP-FLOP.
PR reps (regardless of company) need a slap.
Might as well just release a script...