LG gets injunction against PS3 sales in Europe!?

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AussieGecko said:

Spankey said:

NiKKoM said:

hey... no problemo.. next firmware update Sony removes Blu Ray playback.. problem solved! ;)

lol oddly it could be MS that would end up hurting a bit here as well as Sony if they do this, MS own the rights and get fees for some of the Blu-Ray codecs afaik haha! - 47 million or so less Blu-Ray Players around would surely put a dent in royalties and sting them a little too

apparently a lot of people here dont understand codecs, so dont say this too much you may get a few people after you

Except this is untrue.  MS makes no money off of Blu-ray.  Don't you think if they did they would have supported it?  Here is a qoute taken directly from Wikipedia: "Due to its origins in Microsoft's WMV9 codec, the most popular implementations of VC-1 encoders have so far been done by Microsoft, though third-party implementations exist as well. Sonic Cinevision PSE, a professional VC-1 encoding tool used predominantly in HD DVD and Blu-ray encoding, is a commercial version of Microsoft's PEP (Parallel Encoder) encoding tool and VC-1 Analyzer tool. Microsoft owns the code development whereas Sonic Solutions owns the sales and distribution."  In other words, Sonic Solutions paid MS to license the VC-1 codec, encoding tool and analyzer in their encoding tool, BUT all the sales of that encoding tool go straight to Sonic Solutions.  MS isn't getting any kind of royalties off the use of their codec.