ironman on 10 November 2009
| thismeintiel said: Is it really a wise choice to call a company right out dumb? Hell, there are things I could say about MS and use the word dumb. But I'm not going to start a forum about it. Nor do I think their needs to be one every week about Sony everytime they beat out MS or Nintendo in weekly sales, just so you don't feel so "butthurt." Though it is kinda funny how this forum started of about Samsung and their electronics/TV doing so well. Sorry but do they make the PS3, 360, Wii, DS, or PSP. No? Then what does it matter what they do on this site?. And a lot of wild speculation about Blu-ray, too. "Sony will never make as much with Blu-ray as Toshiba made with DVD." How is this even possible to calculate? Do we know how much of a stake Toshiba had in DVD? No. Do we know how much of a stake Sony has in Blu-ray? No. Let's not forget that Sony had a stake in DVD as well. Since DVD was the combining of technologies. Super Density discs were backed by Toshiba, Time Warner, Matsushita Electric, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric, Pioneer, Thomson, and JVC. We don't even know how much a stake Toshiba had to share with that group. Then they had to split it up even more when they were forced to join with Sony and Phillips, with their MultiMedia Compact Disc, by the Technical Working Group. So until we have specific numbers, we'll never know. Personally, I think Blu-ray might be around for awhile. Especially considering that with multiple layers, they have already been able to create a disc with 400GB. Who knows how much larger it could get when this tech matures. I don't think we'll need anything larger than that in quite awhile. "MS owns a codec used in Blu-ray so they own a small part of Blu-ray" Sure MS owns the VC-1 codec some Blu-ray video is encoded with. Along with 14 other companies. And as it is has been made a standard by the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) anyone can implement it. Now I have read on forums before where people claim that Microsoft is on the BDA. But nowhere have I come across an article that proves this. And given that MS would be going against their best interest, if they were, by not supporting Blu-ray on 360, I'm going to have to seriously doubt it. In closing, Sony has made mistakes. We know it and they know it. But just because they are fixing those mistakes, and have been doing really well recently and just so happen to beat your console of choice this week, don't repost old BS from 06-07. |
Speaking of butthurt... *rolls eyes*
BTW, they have already created a dual layer 1 TB disk it's called Tera Disc and has been in development since 2007...how soon it will hit mainstream I can't tell you.
