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“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.” Bay stated on his ”
He continued his conspiracy theory with an accusation at Microsoft. “That is why Microsoft is handing out USD 100 million cheques 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.”
Microsoft, however, appears unconcerned by Bay’s accusations. Stephen McGill of Microsoft stated the following in response. “I didn’t read his comments, although I heard about them, but hey, he’s allowed his personal thoughts – I think he clarified some of those thoughts about 24 hours later – but for us we’re focused on HD-DVD movies working with great partners, and we wouldn’t have that offer for five free movies if we didn’t believe in that format.”