finalsquall said:
But, but, but Sony Moneyhatting :( Oh Noes :P |
Hold the phone...
Here's another article with a little more:
http://www.contentagenda.com/blog/1500000150/post/190019619.html
The relevent quote:
"There is absolutely no incentive from either side that would have changed the decision we made based on what we were seeing in the consumer data," he said. "The worldwide DVD business is about $40 billion. Any incentives we might have been offered would have paled next to the lost profits from that business if we get this one wrong.”
If you carefully examine the quotes in each article, he neither confirms nor denies being offered or accepting an incentive. Rather he states that such incentives would not have changed his mind on the issue. Therefore it is possible that Warner accepted money to do what it was planning on doing anyway (happens all the time in congress).
Understand that I am not saying this is the case, just that based on these few quotes, if they are accurate, nothing definitive can be said. We either need a straightfoward answer ("we have not accepted any incentives for siding with BluRay") or a full transcript of the relevent part of the conference in order to be sure.
Personally, I don't much care if they did take money or not - logically it was the only path that made sense.
