wangfoo on 15 July 2007
1) Sony's involvement with CD was dwarfed by Philips, who still controls the term "CD" and the redbook standard. The reason for its success has more to do with Philips than Sony
2) Toshiba was the major designer of DVD, with Philips/Sony contributing EFMPlus. Again, Sony had little to do with its success (other than by not creating another format war like Beta v VHS.)
Sony does have a pretty lousy record with formats, and usually only succeed when they don't try to single handedly dominate the development group. Its not because people just imagine this, its because its happened so many times.
"Suck on it" -vgchartz mod
