Outspoken movie director Michael Bay of Transformers fame has claimed that although Microsoft is widely supportive of the HD-DVD format, in actuality they don’t want any format to “win” per say. Why you ask? In Microsoft’s eyes, the money is in downloadable content and not disc-based media. Stalling the format war will allow Microsoft to convert more people over to digital downloads, according to Bay:

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. That is why Microsoft is handing out $100 million dollar checks 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.

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