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Did $400 million decide the format HD war? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,190 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Giga Wizard: Quote:
GlobeandMail.com is running a story that it may have cost Sony $400 million to convince Warner that Blu-ray is the better HD format. The website says analysts are throwing around this number, but no one knows how big of a push it really was. The consumers have chosen...  | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
| | Registered: March 15, 2007 |  Posts: 366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Who cares about Sony BD players? There are and will be better standalones on the market at competitive prices from other CE manufacturers. Unlike HD DVD with Toshiba, Sony isn't the only game in town. |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,635 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting nolesrule: Quote:
Who cares about Sony BD players? There are and will be better standalones on the market at competitive prices from other CE manufacturers. Unlike HD DVD with Toshiba, Sony isn't the only game in town. Exactly! This is known as capitalism for those that are unfamiliar with the term. All the Sony bashing is getting a little tiresome.  Seems like a lot of sour grapes. | | | | Hal |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 21,610 |
| | Posted: | | | | Or just perhaps well over twenty years experience in dealing with what one might consider the most arrogant, slef-absorbed and anti-competitive company on the planet, no I am not referring to Microsoft.
Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!!
CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it.
Outta here
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| | Registered: March 15, 2007 | | Posts: 366 |
| | Posted: | | | | Sorry Skip. Gotta disagree with you there. Microsoft is by far the winner in that category. The format war was their way to force VC-1 (which failed) but they are trying to get their proprietary hooks into ODF by trying to brute force OOXML being passed as the standard. And that's just two of the most recent examples.
At least Sony shared the wealth by working with many companies to develop and refine Blu-ray and the patents are spread around. It's not an all-Sony format, no matterhow often it gets repeated.. |
| | Registered: June 12, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,665 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting nolesrule: Quote:
Microsoft is by far the winner in that category. The format war was their way to force VC-1 (which failed) but they are trying to get their proprietary hooks into ODF by trying to brute force OOXML being passed as the standard. And that's just two of the most recent examples. I have to memorize this for my next first date.  And if that fails i'll direct her attention to the faux wood paneling on my minivan. | | | | Bad movie? You're soaking in it! |
| | Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 811 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting skipnet50: Quote:
Or just perhaps well over twenty years experience in dealing with what one might consider the most arrogant, slef-absorbed and anti-competitive company on the planet, no I am not referring to Microsoft.
Skip Right On!! SONY has some decent products, but their management and win-at-all-cost attitude sucks |
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