Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 01/06/08 12:57

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 14:40:33 -0800 (PST), alan.browne@gmail.com wrote:

> Blu Ray consortium tried to come to terms with
>Toshiba/Microsoft back in 2005. The gorillas ran away and persisted
>with HD-DVD.


It is the other way around, dumbfuck. Sony, Toshiba, and IBM were
together on the Cell CPU, and Toshiba and Sony were to be together on the
new HD spec. It was SONY that decided to go off, and thumb their nose at
the rest of the gang, and start their own spec.

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