Next Xbox delayed due Sony blocking Blu-ray licensing?

[walsufnir]

Tachikoma said:

walsufnir said:

Tachikoma said:

kowenicki said:
7 cents a disc of which Sony will receive less than 1 cent,

7 dollars per drive of which Sony will receive less than 1 dollar.

You forget the licensing required for mass production printing machines, Licensing for distrubution in various regions is also different and of course licensing to modify the format of the drive to implement additional security for disk protection, whilst maintaining the functionality of original disks, but hey..

Where do all these licenses come from? Could you provide a link?

It's industry deal originated, it's not like theres just a webpage you can go to, to look them up, basically any company wanting to mass produce blu-ray movies need to not only pay for the disks but also license the hardware burning them, you can't just setup a company using PC based bluray burners and create corporate media for sale, sure it'd work if your userbase is small and you're making copies homebrew, but as soon as you start needing mass production hardware you start needing licenses too.

So all this licensing stuff is not written anywhere? Then how do you know? And do you think that mass-production is done by MS? I doubt so. Most probably there are factories that mass-product optical discs for any company. Or do you think that MS currently has a big factory that produces 360-discs for them? What about publishers? Their games are also produced there? Or does EA have their own DVD- and BR-factories?