kn said:
And so the group forming Blu-Ray as an "alternative" that was outside of the DVD standards group at the time was purely a move to benefit the customer? Hardly. They wanted a piece of the Action Toshiba had from previos DVD licensing and Toshiba didn't want to give it up. It's all corporate greed... no matter how you look at it. Interesting read for you... It sheds some interesting light on the whole breakdown that led to two formats... http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3671091
and a small exerpt from that: "Toshiba began to work on a format it called Advanced Optical Disc (AOD), while Sony and several other consumer electronics vendors started working on Blu-ray Disc. The DVD Forum, the official consortium that shepherded the original DVD format to the market, chose AOD as the next-generation and dubbed it HD DVD. Sony thumbed its nose at this snub and continued with Blu-ray (deliberately misspelled so it could be trademarked) development. " |
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/soapbox/soap060107.html
Relevant section
"At an industry conference last year, Warren Lieberfarb revealed during a panel that, right after standard DVD launched, Sony approached him about the need to start working on the high-def version (understandable given that HDTV broadcasting was already taking off in Japan and Europe), but the DVD Forum felt it was too early and wasn't interested. So Sony started working on their own high-def format."
Blu-ray was put before the DVD froum before HD DVD and was rejected due to the fact Toshiba effectively controls the forum. This is why the BDA broke of.f.
