SONY promoting digital downloads have very little if anything to do with Microsoft. It's about diversifying your offerings as a business. It's as simple as the saying "Don't put all you eggs in one backet." You know... this thread is almost not worth responding to (I did say "almost") because it paints a false picture to somehow think that just because SONY promotes digital downloads it automatically means that Microsoft was correct or that just because SONY promoted Blu-ay means that they cannot also promote digital downloads and Blu-ray was a wrong move. if any one company was involved that heavily influenced SONY's decision to promote digital downloads it was Apple. I remember reading an article where Ken Katuragi (BEFORE he left SONY) publicly criticized SONY for not taking advantage of the mp3 market sooner now that Apple has dominated the market with their iTunes namebrand. Making predictions on the vitality of an optical media format and digital downloads is one thing and very herd to accurately predict. But you will always have your collectors, a physical media for HD content is the most convenient mean of storage and transport, and the download of HD content from most high speed connections in homes do not outweigh the conventionality of a brick and mortar store with customer service.
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