foxtail said:
It seems the wording in my last post above may be leading to a misunderstanding. Microsoft didn’t avoid paying fees altogether, they avoided paying fees under the classification of a DVD video player. Any device with a DVD drive has to pay at least the $4 fee somewhere along the line. What Microsoft did with the dongle on the original Xbox is avoid the end product being classified as a DVD video player. The classification depended on the capabilities of the end product (i.e. does it play DVD-Video/DVD-Audio/or have the ability to DVD Decode out of the box). It depends on what the drive does for the end product device, and what DVD patents it uses out of the box. So yes, the royalty may have been paid on the drive only if that part didn’t assist the Xbox in any other DVD capabilities or use any other DVD functions. But since the Xbox used a standard DVD drive and standard DVD discs it may have been harder to make the distinction to have the loophole apply. |
So you are still agreeing that the royalty is no reason to excuse GC of using a 1.47 Gb driver?
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