| D-Joe said: The hell,people still talking about like Sony will have profit because MS use BD Yeah they pay for BD,but pay to BDA,BDA have 16 or 17 board members And btw,Sony also a member of DVD forum,did that stop MS use DVD? |
Sony will profit from MS having Bluray. There are several boardmembers and one of them is Sony. Also not all are equal. Sony appearently gets a large chunk of the income BDA makes. They get royalties for every licensed Bluray disk. The others get the royalties for every manufactured Bluray drive if my memory serves me right.
But its actually quite common that most big companies somehow pay for the products of the others be it a codec a standard a certain software or patent. MS gets money for Windows and probably a bunch of other stuff from Sony.
In the end its good for Sony that MS uses Blurays. But thats obviously no reason that stops MS from using it since Sony pays MS a lot more. They use also Windows/MS Software internally and also sell it with their Vaios. So why would MS have a problem with paying Sony if Sony has no problem paying MS .
