Posted by E. Barry Bruyea on 02/06/07 11:10

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:02:04 -0500, Derek Janssen <ejanss@comcast.net>
wrote:

>E. Barry Bruyea wrote:
>>>
>>>Well, three of them: Sony's still going down with their own ship, and
>>>Disney is owned by Apple, who wants to keep the codec in the QuickTime
>>>family.
>>
>> Just where did you get the idea that Apple owns Disney?
>
>Well, er, *one* of the provisos that let Pixar agree to be bought by
>Disney was to let Steve Jobs now own 51% of the board stock, with
>Michael Eisner departing--

Crap. Not one single entity 'owns' 51% of Disney Stock.


>
>And if the iTunes Movie Store is any indication, Disney will be doing a
>LOT of cross-promoting of Apple products (like Blu-compatible h.264
>codecs, for example) in the near future if they know what's good for
>them, whether they have any choice in the matter or not.
>
>Derek Janssen
>ejanss@comcast.net

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