A Hollywood director has accused
Microsoft
of deliberately stoking a format war between Blu-ray and HD-DVD.
Michael Bay, who directed Transformers, Armageddon and
Bad Boys, alleged that Microsoft had deliberately tried to cause
confusion over the next media format so that it could sell downloads.
Bay was asked by a fan on his
web
forum why his films were so slow to be released on Blu-ray, which the fan
favoured. Bay blamed Microsoft for his use of the HD-DVD format.
"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," he said.
Bay alleged that Microsoft is "handing out $100m cheques to studios just to
embrace 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," he said.
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