Does the Wii prove that the HD razor/blade model is flawed?

[theprof00]

Grimes said:

theprof00 said:

The only thing you can find is that "sony doesn't even have 30% stake", which implies that it is very near 30%. 

Also, I would like to know exactly how much you think BDA requires to maintain operations. If they take, say 5 pennies from every movie sales, they made 150k last week. Average 100k a week and you're looking at 5.2M a year just on movie sales, not including blank discs, players, drives, writers, etc etc etc

Also, BDA makes about 2M$ a year just on membership fees, and the entire BDA is a consortium made up of member companies.

In my condo association, there is a yearly fee, and we all chip in to pay for extra renovations. It would seem logical that the member companies pay for a lot of the overhead already. So, I'd really like to know what kind of numbers we're talking about because, at this point that whole area of discussion is very cloudy to me.

I'm not implying anything. But if you make a such a specific claim, I expect that you should be able to back it up with a reference.

I don't know how much money the BDA eats up, but it seems like a pretty extensive organization with its own staff including staff, managers, legal and engineering across multiple continents.

 

... I think you misunderstood.

I mean, "If you were to look online, there are several places which say 'Not 30%' or 'not even 30%'. These kind of statements imply that it is near 30%, otherwise, these statements would say 'Not even 25%', or something similar."

I added an update above, which I will post here as well:

UPDATE:

I've been doing some checking and found out that there are additional fees on top of per disc licensing. Totaling all costs, logo fee, AACS+formats, keys, certification, duplication, etc etc, you pay about 15k-30k$ per BR title that is released. There are about 1500 titles in existence as of Jan 2009. At 15k, that's another 22.5M in fees paid on top of per disc licensing costs.