| kowenicki said: nope.. that would be stupid... it isnt required.
oh and sony? royalties? what are you on about? they are just one of many many compnaies (including microsoft) that would pick up royalties from blu ray sales... |
MS made (like other participants) its video format semi-open, the format has been released by MS and is open (and like in HD-DVD it's just one of the three main formats, with MPEG-2 and MPEG-4, and not the most used, except for downloads from MS services), while its most used encoder is MS property, contents producers pay it exclusive royalties only if they use MS format and license its encoder (although MS will get its little share from BD forfait royalties on HW and SW anyway). But with BD victory MS loses twice: once because MS weight in HD-DVD consortium was much heavier, and again because interactive contents in BD uses a Java variant, while that in HD-DVD used a MS derived system whose only implementation before the format demise was a MS proprietary system using a Win CE variant, so each HW device paid MS a license for it (this is an even heavier hit to MS power than to its finances, as a HD-DVD victory would have strengthened Win CE in the embedded market in a period like this when its position, despite growing as absolte numbers, due to markets growth, is weakening as total share as in the mobile market Win Mobile is losing ground against not only Symbian and Linux like up until a few years ago, but now also against Apple, Android and a reborn Blackberry, while we can't say anithing yet about attempts to revive PalmOS, but should they succeed it would be again another Win Mob competitor).
