This is sad and getting sadder by the moment. article from Slashdot.org:

Microsoft Fueling HD Wars For Own Benefit?

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 05, @09:23AM
from the well-they-ain’t-running-a-charity-over-there dept.

DaveyJJ writes “According to Transformers’ director Michael Bay, in a story over on Electronista, Microsoft is deliberately feeding into the HD disc format wars to ensure that its own downloads succeed where physical copies fail, he says in a response to a question posed through his official forums. The producer contends that Microsoft is writing “$100 million dollar checks” to movie studios to ensure HD DVD exclusives that hurt the overall market regardless of the format’s actual merit or its popularity, preventing any one format from gaining a clear upper hand.”