Alby_da_Wolf on 02 October 2008
| Squilliam said: I think people forget that Microsoft has also got a piece of the pie for Blu Ray. They get a kickback on every disk sold as the Blu Ray disks are using their codecs!  |
Yes, but, as in HD-DVD, MS' codec isn't mandatory, anybody can choose amongst it, MPEG2 and MPEG4. Microsoft would have earned much more from HD-DVD, indirectly, by weakening Sony, and directly because the subsystem for interactive contents most diffused implementation, HDi, was MS' IP and run, iirc, by Windows CE, so HD-DVD meant much more royalties for MS.
