Sony's in a 'bag of hurt' because of Blu-ray

[jacks81x]

Zappykins said:

mutantsushi said:

Zappykins said:
Sony tried really hard to corner the market, and it worked, they won the 'blu-ray war', but ultimately they sped up the loss to digital distribution. The people and companies that made the DVD's (and then blu-rays) are getting lost in this too. 

Kind of, but Sony can do just as well by a digital download/stream era, as they own major movie/TV/music studios.
They are better off owning BR and getting royalties from it, than paying Toshiba royaties.
As posted here, there is likely to be a future physical standard,
with networks unlikely to make 4k downloads/streams a near term reaity esp. globally,
and Sony will be participating (and likely making said players backwards compatable with BR).

Well, what if they had agree to the standard that everyone else had already agreed too?  Thus no HD DVD/BR war? They single handily refused to allow the adopted standard, and thus cause the format war.  (Much like it was in VHS/Betamax.)  They would have significantly benefited from no format war.  I think much more so than having most of the BR format monopoly.

With the new H.256 standard 4K resolution will be pretty common for anyone with a big TV and a high speed internet connection.  If not now, then easily in a couple years.  Even Netflix is broadcasting shows now in 4K.  There is no reason to go back to physical media.  At least not yet, nor do I think there will be in the foreseeable future.

 

Who is everyone though?  There were more proponents for BR than there were for HD-DVD.  Companies like Panasonic, Samsung, Dolby, Disney, and WB are all members of the BDA.