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

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theprof00 said:

Grimes said:

theprof00 said:

Sorry, I really have no idea how many BR titles are available.
According to Netflix, they had 1900 BR titles as of 2008.

Here, http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?genre=Action, shows categories with totals, but most of the movies have multiple categories. So, I picked the largest one, 'drama' which has 3300, assuming drama incorporates all the other movies, just to make a conservative estimate (not including porn either)

So really we are looking at about 50M$ for most of the licensing costs alone on a very very very conservative estimate. (for example, comedy is almost surely not drama, which consists of another 1800 titles...and no porn...which is probably also in the thousands.)

All in all, there is a F**** gigantic amount of profit made by the BDA on it's own, so I really wonder how much of ANY of the licensing profits get distributed...

 

My numbers: http://www.blu-raydisc.info/format_spec/obtain_specs_manu.php

It's revenue, not profit. We don't know how much if any profit is being made. We don't know how much money has been spent or is being spent in development, marketing, dealmaking, etc.

So then how do you even begin to justify your estimate on what Sony makes?

As a realistic estimate, BDA has probably made about 250M on licensing alone (not disc or drive licenses included). What kind of costs could possibly eat up as much as you claim it eats from copy licensing (11 cents per disc), when we don't even know who covers the costs anyway?

Like I said, I'm in a condo association and we have several fees and oftentimes have to pool money together to pay for the good of the condo. Why wouldn't one association act like another?

I'm not going to justify my number because I have no idea. Sony could still be billions in the hole or could be in profit. I don't know.

The only thing I know is that the PS division has been losing billions of dollars and that the fees for licensing blu-ray discs is 11 cents. It may not even be that much because I'm not sure what deals are in place that circumbent the licensing.