| Kasz216 said: A agressive Sony at bay... from what? From profit. They are in a console war dude! The best thing to do is hinder your opponent at every turn. Afterall, Microsoft does get a cut of Blu-ray royalties. However, they got a much bigger cut on HDDVD royalties, which is another reason that I should have mentioned earlier. As for the 30K fee per title for commerical distribution... that seems pertty inconsequential honestly. For each movie sold, you can pay one middleground employee. Care to provide a link for that though? Again, I'd like to know what middleground employees you think exist in the BDA. I asked someone the same thing above and nobody knows. Collectively, the BDA is an association made up of several companies. It's all written above, all links are there. It's from BDA licensing terms website.
Not counting the fact that Sony owns a number of movie companies and probably has to pay some of that money back into the pot. Of course they do, just like any other company. It's no more burden for them than it is for anyone else. Which is by the way, a reason PS3 didn't need blu-ray. I mean, Sony owns a large percentage of hollywood. This doesn't make sense. They own a small portion of hollywood, and HDDVD had lots of studios backing it at the time. Keep in mind that BR came out over a year after HDDVD was already making movies and had support. Up to 75% of BR players were PS3s back in the day. And BR install base was just slightly bigger than HDDVD. Without PS3 BR would have died. I used to be a member of DVDtown, so I've heard all the arguments before. BR needed PS3, and BR is not only profitable, but viable; end of story. |
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