Kasz216 said:
ssj12 said:
Carl2291 said:
ssj12 said:
NYANKS said:
Can anyone put a number on how much Sony could stand to profit if Blu-ray ever reached the sales levels of DVD? Like a very rough estimation would suffice! |
Zero
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Dont they own a major share in Blu-ray?
Or am i mistaken?
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They have none at all. They might have developed it but profits are split by the collective body of the BDA, nothing specifically goes directly to Sony.
If they earned money like that Sony and Phillips, who both owns the patents for CDs, would have earned billions on ever CD sold in the world. But they don't, instead any "royalties" for CD go to whatever the collective body is that manage CD standards (probably DVD Forum).
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Toshiba earned billions of DVD royalties... until their patents ran out anyway.
Though 10 cents per disc is a ridiculious claim. Toshiba made something like 1 cent a disc... and that was considered expensive.
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Toshiba and Sony are two different companies though. Also just like the CD, Blu-ray was co-developed by Sony and Phillips, and now memorex and a few other companies are developing multiple layered Blu-rays, so really who would get the royalties? It has to be split among the collective since there are a number of factors that each BDA BOF claims to the format. (Apple also owns many patents for Java which the BD-Live and other features are based off)
