Sony's competitive position

[huiii]

Persistantthug said:

huiii said:

TadpoleJackson said:
Except, the BDA owns the rights to blu-ray and not Sony. And if you were to want to make a blu-ray player and needed the licenses and patents you would actually seek out the BD4C Licensing Group; which consists of Mitsubishi, Thomson, Toshiba and Warner Bros.

Microsoft is also expanding pretty quickly, over the past three or so years they've announced several pieces of technology that they are making themselves. With the company itself increasing it's server software, putting out cellphone OS, building their own tablets, as well as picking up Skype.

yes BDA owns the trademark to blu-ray but each company holds their own patents for their onw inventions (in blu-ray). BD4C Licnsing Group is just for the patents of these companys and not for all blu-ray patents and since sony was a founding member of BDA and basicly (as far as i know) pushed blu-ray the hardest, i'd figure that they've got some essential patents to blu-ray, wich means every blue-ray disc or player sold also gets sony money.

 

BD4C: "[...]The group was formed in an effort to offer licnsees an one-stop shopping for essential Blu-ray and DVD patents owned or controlled by the four companied.[...]"

http://www.cdrinfo.com/sections/news/Details.aspx?NewsId=27093

Sony is the HEAD of the BluRay Disk Association.

Thats not in wikipedia so i wouldn't know. I was just sure that the person i quoted was wrong so i did some googeling.