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Posted by Jordan on 02/10/07 08:27
Best explanation yet of why Sony pushing Blu-Ray is a really, really
bad idea:
http://www.gizmocafe.com/blogs/gizmo_cafe_blog/archive/2007/02/08/106130.aspx
For the lazy, some key quotes:
"In 1988 Sony bought CBS Records. A year later they buy Columbia and
Tri-Star Pictures.Sony is now one of the largest music and film
studios in the world. That's a conflict of interest you could drive a
Sequoia through."
"Do you think the consumer is a priority to the Blu-Ray disc
association? Blu-Ray only won over 20th Century Fox by promising an
extra layer of DRM encrypion called BD+."
"Do you think if the Soviet Union were a disc format they'd bother to
support IHD or managed copy?"
"Let me get this straight, the company that makes the movie also wants
to create the disc format. It also builds the hardware, writes an
extra digital rights management encryption, why don't you just buy a
house in a Sony gated community? That's exactly what Disney's doing in
Celebration, Florida."
"If Blu-Ray wins we don't realize how badly shafted the consumer is
going to be."
"When Sony is a hardware company, they're a good company, great ideas.
But the trouble is when one company controls the media, controls the
content, controls the hardware, whose interests are being served? Why
should they bother to innovate?"
- Jordan
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