| tombi123 said:
Sorry no data. But do you think 17 companies would spend billions of dollars developing a format, if it wasn't worth it in the end? |
It depends on what you mean by "Worth it" ...
For many of the companies in the consortium the value of being involved in a product like a new movie format is to be able to develop technology which may be of value in a wide variety of situations (look at the DRM as an example), or they anticipate that it will drive sales in other divisions of their company.
Movie Studios and Electronics manufacturers are always pushing for new movie formats because (if they're really successful) they will drive the sales of old movies (which produces high revenues at low costs) and sales of high end audio-visual equipment.
Certainly, when you factor in all revenue streams, Sony might recover their costs from the adoption of Blu-Ray but it is highly plausable that they would have gained these additional revenue streams had HD-DVD or Digital Downloads taken off and they wouldn't have faced the losses associated with Blu-Ray and the PS3.
