S.T.A.G.E. on 09 November 2009
| Grimes said: Again, Sony doesn't own blu-ray. The BDA owns blu-ray and it's estimated that Sony has roughly a 30% stake in the BDA. The BDA has it's own marketing and administrative costs, for example the half billion dollars that the BDA paid Warner to beat HD-DVD. So the BDA would have to be profiting for Sony to even receive any royalty money. |
Sony helped also by teaming with Blockbuster to sell Blu Ray DVD's as the only exclusive format save for DVD. Blockbuster got rid of HD-DVD because of that deal when the people never had a choice in deciding.
