Michael Bay, acclaimed director of smash hits Pearl Harbor and The Island, has never had love for HD DVD, (though it seemed like he got reasonable). Now he says HD DVD is all a giant conspiracy being bankrolled by $100 million checks from Microsoft to slowly kill both HD formats: “Microsoft [officials]want both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads.” He’s probably right, but we don’t think Microsoft is really all that JFK-conspiracy brilliant. Bill Gates yes, Microsoft not so much. Happy accidents. [Michael Bay via Electronista]
Even though Transformers director Michael Bay backed down after bitching about Paramount’s choice of HD DVD over Blu-ray for all forthcoming home videos including Transformers, he couldn’t hold his tongue for long. He told USA Today that he’s pissed about the format war in general, adding specifically: “As a director, my critical eye is that Blu-ray is where my money is.”
He also says the bestselling DVD release of Transformers was “not as good as it could have been.” Apparently somebody must’ve got up on the wrong side of the bed. [USA Today]
Paramount and Dreamworks Animation’s decision to go exclusively HD DVD and even up the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war has pissed off Transformers director Michael Bay. There’s seriously urine all over the place. This is what he said in a post on his own forum:
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.
And the kicker.
