Is It Time For MS To Eat Crow....

[Alby_da_Wolf]

kowenicki said:

Pristine20 said:

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...

 

 M$ isn't part of the blu-ray association. stop pulling stuff from thin air

I didnt say it was... but all Blu-Ray players use MS codecs and I presume they have to pay a license for that........? No?

 

From BD read-only HW MS receives only its share from forfait royalties payed to BD consortium. From discs MS receives exclusive royalties from contents producers if they use MS proprietary encoder to encode contents in VC-1 format. Obviously MS receives royalties for its encoder also if it's used, by HW or SW, in domestic BD writers. VC-1 specifications have been made open by MS, so exclusive royalties are due only if MS proprietary encoder is used (obviously MS is licensing it at reasonable fees, and curing its quality, otherwise nobody would use it).