SuperAL
January 28th, 2007, 01:23 AM
http://gear.ign.com/articles/759/759068p1.html
Pretty interesting... Kinda cool how he's trying to be neutral about the formats and that he wants the consumers to decide on format. Damn the war!
IGN: When did this communication with HD-DVD begin?
Joone: It happened about February or March of last year. Right after we announced Blu-ray support. We worked on both formats well into the summer but then we couldn't get replication on Blu-ray so we continued with just HD-DVD.
IGN: Were the HD-DVD guys aware that the Blu-ray camp was being difficult?
Joone: Not until really recently. We didn't want to be in a situation where we'd be saying, 'If you help us then we'll only support HD-DVD.' That wasn't a position we wanted to be in. The idea was that we'd do Blu-ray and we'd support HD-DVD if they wanted to help, and then let the consumer decide. We didn't want to be biased or to choose a side. It's more like we got a bunch of help so we were able to make strides in one format whereas we ended up hitting a wall with the other.
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IGN: Considering how things have gone, if given the opportunity to make releases on Blu-ray, would you still want to?
Joone: I want the customer to have choices. I don't want them to be forced into a technology because it's being supported one way or the other. I want customers to decide what they want to see on a format, not corporations. Customers should decide what's going to happen.
Pretty interesting... Kinda cool how he's trying to be neutral about the formats and that he wants the consumers to decide on format. Damn the war!
IGN: When did this communication with HD-DVD begin?
Joone: It happened about February or March of last year. Right after we announced Blu-ray support. We worked on both formats well into the summer but then we couldn't get replication on Blu-ray so we continued with just HD-DVD.
IGN: Were the HD-DVD guys aware that the Blu-ray camp was being difficult?
Joone: Not until really recently. We didn't want to be in a situation where we'd be saying, 'If you help us then we'll only support HD-DVD.' That wasn't a position we wanted to be in. The idea was that we'd do Blu-ray and we'd support HD-DVD if they wanted to help, and then let the consumer decide. We didn't want to be biased or to choose a side. It's more like we got a bunch of help so we were able to make strides in one format whereas we ended up hitting a wall with the other.
...
IGN: Considering how things have gone, if given the opportunity to make releases on Blu-ray, would you still want to?
Joone: I want the customer to have choices. I don't want them to be forced into a technology because it's being supported one way or the other. I want customers to decide what they want to see on a format, not corporations. Customers should decide what's going to happen.