jarrod said:
Sony didn't bear ALL the losses, though they did essentially sacrifice their PlayStation business as trojan to kill HD-DVD. That was Sony's miscalculation alone though (they thought PS3 would lift BD, not that BD would sink PS3), Panasonic, Philips, Hitachi, Samsung, LG and the other founding members of the BDA aren't going to hand Sony their royalties out of pity. Sony has a big investment and significant holdings in the format, but they aren't even the biggest taker, and there's pretty much no way any one single company involved is getting as much as 25% of the pie alone. |
SO u think SONY thought that even with BDPS3 high price PS3 was gonnabe number one place from the start?.............lol
SONY,PHILIPS,PANASONIC are the owners of BLU-RAY.no other company gets anything
oh and it was SONY decision to put BD in PS3,IT was but it was at the cost of more royalties.What if SONY didn't put BD in blu-ray,nobody would have gotten anything so SONY would have the highest share ahnds down
miscalculations just down't happen like that when investing BILLIONS
HITACHI,SAMSUNG,LG get nothing.they were just the consortium members that came along to support and had a few of their says in customising for their BD products
like them many had started DVD consortium too but only 9 original companies that made the format got the royalties
