steverhcp02 on 27 February 2010
| nordlead said: well, I know they were price fixing the Blu-ray drives for a while. They refused to let the cheapo Chinese manufacturers make and sell their own models. The only thing I can't figure out, is why are these small retailers complaining instead of people who actually want to make a drive for cheap and sell it. My only guess is that they are stocking $60-80 DVD drives and people don't want to pay for it they want something cheaper. |
That had nothing to do with price fixing and everything to do with standards of manufacturing. There were and are certain requirements that grow and voted upon through the BDA including profile views 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. This includes BonusVIew and BD Live. These standards were rolled out and the BDA, which is actually mor ePanasonic if im not mistaken then Sony, but the entire BDA vote son regulations to use they Blu-ray Disc image and brand.
The "cheapo" chinese manufacturers would have put out lossy audio, players with no profile views and they were th eone who refused to play by the standards set by the BDA not the other way around.
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