HappySqurriel said:
I just want to know why everyone thinks "Blu-Ray" is some sort of super money maker for Sony? Of all costs associated with Blu-Ray players and discs, the licencing fees on most formats have never been that large of a portion of the total costs; and there are hundreds of companies who get a cut for this due to their involvement with the Blu-Ray consortium, or the technology that is licenced to produce the Blu-Ray format. On top of this, Sony and other companies have had fairly large expenses in order to make Blu-Ray as successful as it currently is ... The hundreds of millions of dollars that were paid in order to get studios to become Blu-Ray exclusive mainly came out of the pocket of a couple of companies (including Sony).
The reason companies like Sony push formats like Blu-Ray has nothing to do with the money they make (directly) from Blu-Ray. The reason they push it is because a new format provides a need for new hardware (like Televisions and surround sound systems), and encourages people to re-buy the same movies they already own ... |
Wrong, there are alot of companies that get tiny returns on bluray profitability but here are 18 companies that can really profit alot directly from sales of BluRay technology. Sony gets by far the most being that they championed the product. The actual forecast for BluRay DVD sales alone for next year are in the billions (maybe 2-3) and will multiply dramatically years down the road if the format stays on track. With that being said, Sony gets roughly 25-30% of that pie... While BluRay can be used as a horse to sell high def displays and audio, the bulk of the profits will come from royalties off disk sales. And when i mean disk sales, I'm talking about new releases, not rebuys of the same movies people already own.
