"I'm surprise you didn't Boycott Fox!" - Anyone here doing it?

I dislke Fox...if I boycott any studio they will be first.

An hour ago I was at Target with X3 in my hand. I put it back when I realized it was a Fox movie. In general I'm not really hot to buy any DVD's these days after seeing HD DVD.

I refuse to buy Fox/Sony DVDs, but I will rent them. If I want the movie bad enough, I'll get a blank DVD-R and...you know.

I rented X-Men 3 just like I did with the previous two, I never intended to buy them. Now that Fox is one of those Blu-Ray supporters, more reason to not buy Fox movies, though I just had to buy the Die Hard collection. Anyway, I'm kinda exaggerating. I was planning on buying The Little Mermaid cause I liked it as a kid and I know it's gonna be a loooong time till it comes in HD, but my dad was like "pfft", so I didn't buy it.

I have nothing against Fox for supporting Blu-Ray exclusively, but I do have a problem with their excessive on-disc advertisements. Also, they have very few films in their catalog that actually interest me.

BTW, I'm sure no one can wait for The Simpsons movie to hit Blu-Ray. Maybe the movie would have had a chance of being good if it were released ten years ago when the show was actually good.

You could always buy used copies. That way, they don't get any money from the transaction.

I haven't purchased a SD since 3/06. I may be only one man but I was one man with 850+ SD DVD's, I have begun the sell off, and trust me if Fox won't put out HD DVD and BD stays how it is, well I won't appologize for NEVER buying another Fox picture... Take that to the bank!

I already own:

1) Star Wars Saga
2) Die Hard Trilogy
3) Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

If Fox wants to play hard ball and be stubborn then to hell with them TWO (Million) can play at that game, I "DO NOT" (and that is the key phrase there) have to buy a Fox title, Warners back catalog alone will keep me satisfied for years to come!

X-Men 3 is more than enough to make me boycott Fox, regardless of which format they're releasing their movies on.

Thank you. Exactly.

Buying them is just funding BD.

I will rent any BR exclusive title. My first choice is to suport HD DVD all the way. I will buy at least 2 HD DVD's per month from Target to show support at that store for HD DVD. My other purchases will be from Amazon.

I am guilty of purchasing one DVD since April. It was the Prison Break box set. I didn't think anything of it at the time since the new season was about to start. Now I don't buy any DVDs...not on the principle that it's from a non HD DVD studio but on the principle that it's DVD!

As far as the non HD DVD studios are concerned I just don't see them holding off for much longer. There's too much demand for HD DVD versus Blu-ray for them to stay away. I know I'm looking forward to Sony's first HD DVD release!!

I suppose I'm already boycotting them by proxy, I don't buy SD discs anymore and they don't offer HD DVD's, so

Not to get OT but I believe that the HD DVD pricing at Target is going to be very similar to Amazon's. Not please back to boycotting Fox.

I refuse to buy Sony movies, that aren't Extended Editions. I will not buy Underworld Evolution until the EE comes out. Same will apply to The Davinci Code.

However, boycotting their titles is meaningless to me as first they have to have something I want to buy. I want X3, but Brett says in the commentary that a 2 disc edition is in the works for when Wolverine hits theaters, so I'll pass.

Fox is one of my favorite studios, they supported D-Theater and I will support any system they release on, regarding HD only

Sony has many many movies I like also

I was done with SD-DVD years ago

-Gary

I am a fellow Fox boycotter, i think Prison Break was the last one i purchased from them also.

i was at target and walmart andi think it was 9.95 on special and i was like heh i aint supporting them

Boycott Fox?

Why the hell would I do that? They were the best supporter of D-Theater and released some of the best looking titles ever in HD (Xmen and I, Robot) they have released some great DVD's, and they have some excellent titles in their vaults.

Does the phrase "cutting off your nose to spite your face" apply here?

If they don't support HD DVD then I will 1000% Boycott them and not lose an ounce of sleep over it...

Besides any studio pushing "X-Men 3 direct by that guy from Rush Hour"

No thanks!

Fox is a top notch studio and always has been, their choice to support BR is their choice, I have always liked Fox and put them at the top of the Home Media game, hopefully their BR will continue this, their D-Theater were the best and they are a #1 SD-DVD studio, and their movie catalog is one of my favorites

buck up and buy a 599$ Samsung, not much more than the Toshiba's, not enough to bitch or complain over, anyone who thinks the Fox BR titles are gonna look anything but good is deceived

-Gary

I have two HD-A1s (thanks OnePass), but I'm not opposed to buying BD down the road if a good player is as reasonably priced and the disc PQ improves (using VC-1 or higher bitrate). Until then, I won't touch BD.

Of course I wish that Fox would release movies in both formats now, but I'm not going to boycott them long term and spite myself. They own/control too many great titles to ignore. In general, I no longer buy SD-DVDs (there are exceptions like anime). I rent instead via Netflix, so Fox and Sony aren't getting my money directly. Maybe these studios will get my money for HiDef down the road on BD or maybe not. One thing is for sure, they'd get it much sooner if they released titles on HD-DVD now.

Though Fox won't be feeling my personal boycott much, I am an entrenched HD DVD supporter and I am not buying many standard DVDs anymore. I RENTED X-Men tonight and purchased "Batman Begins" and "Polar Express" HD DVDs at Target thanks to those DCPI numbers someone supplied!

Or wait for them to start releasing on HD DVD. It's really not that difficult. I can make do with SD DVD's from Fox and Sony for the time being. As I said before, I ain't replacing my SD version with an HD version unless it completely replaces the SD version and thus far, Sony and Fox ain't doing that.

I think I am doing exactly the opposite. I tend to put off buying anything in SD that I think might be released in HD-DVD in the near future. So that means I put off buying SD DVD blockbusters from WB, Universal and Paramount (KK, HP, V for V, etc), whereas I will pickup SD DVD (Ultraviolet, Underworld Evolution, Memoirs, etc) from Sony.

I only buy TV shows on dvd at this point.

Didn't I read somewhere here that as a byproduct of making a Vc-1 transfer of a movie both Disney and Fox are , in fact , creating a HD-DVD first ? So why can't they release on that format too ? Not enough DRM ? No region coding perhaps ?

Don't forget that some BD exclusives in U.S. will be released elsewhere in the world on HD-Dvd so f you've already tired of S***'s and Fox's BS all HD hope is not lost. And Disney's recurring 'moratorium' plans for top titles just illustrates the paucity of top executive personnel in that company.

I dont even have a HD-Dvd player yet ( though I've started to buy discs) but IMO the BEST that BD can do is EQUAL HD-DVD so these studios should've followed Warner's example of supporting BOTH formats and therefore making money in the short, medium and longer terms.

~M~

I buy the movies I want to see. If it's not on HD DVD (rarely is), I buy the standard DVD. I don't have a problem with Fox in patricular, or any other studio. Sure, there can be stuff that annoys me, but I won't boycott any studio because of it.

With all due respect, Gary, Fox has always offered good HT products in every format it produced - they've also consistently been the least consumer-friendly studio and have ALWAYS attempted to bilk the consumers for every dime! Even their LD's were significantly more expensive than the other studios (remember all their $50 - $70 releases (Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, Die Hard, Alien, etc).

They balked at DVD because of their piracy paranoia. They attempted to adopt the rental-priced structure with DVD and charge $80 per disc. They preferred a digital tape format to DVD (so no surprise they latched onto D-Theater so aggressively). They supported DIVX, helping keep that idiotic format alive. They publicly criticized Warner Brothers for their aggressive pricing of DVD's, especially their release of "The Matrix" (which, ironically, became the biggest-selling title with over 1.5 million units in its first few weeks of release in 1999).

And now they are exclusive to Blu-Ray, and their inital slate of titles continues to demonstrate their greed and paranoia with MSRP of $40 per disc (which, ironically, was the same inflated price of their first DVD's as well). Consumers are favoring HD-DVD by a margin of 11 to 1 in software sales right now, but Fox's Mike Dunn continues to spout BS about their being "no format war" because BD will trounce HD-DVD. He is Bill Mechanic all over again - another clown running Fox with an iron-fist and no brains. They will support any idiotic format (DIVX, UMD, DVHS) that has no future or promise of widespread adoption so long as there is no chance of high quality video that can be replicated and pirated. Yet they will shun a format that may become the new standard in HT because of their paranoia.

I've said it on other forums as well - Fox is run by backwards-thinking people. They use price-gouging tactics with every format, yet are paranoid about piracy. They can't seem to grasp the notion that overpricing is what leads to piracy - an idea that Warner seems to understand very well.

So, to answer the original question, not ONLY have I stopped buying Fox titles (along with all other SD DVD's), I have also been returning all my Fox DVD's that were unopened. I will NOT buy both formats - not because I can't afford to, but because I REFUSE to be pressured by greedy, pompous studios who try to use political motives to sway my buying decisions.

Their choice is their choice and mine is mine. No Fox until they stop the nonsense. They make Dtheater which had almost no base but not HDDVD? At least Disney is consistent they keep all their "A" titles on the sideline until things are settled.(See Divx) If they were Gung Ho BR "Cars" would be day and date