It's market diversification and it makes sense from a marketing perspective. Will reach more customers this way.
| Zones said: You may not have heard, but Sony have said that there are two types of consumers when it come to distribution. One is more interested in having a tangible, physical media -- The other is more interested in a digital media, meaning they want their platforms connected to the internet most of the time. Sony have also made it clear that, this time around, they won't miss one of the distribution ways like they lost the digital distribution side of music business back in the Walkman Vs iPod days. So, they are not "making a mockery of consumers" like you may think of it. They just give consumers more options and choices. |
I'll go with this.
4 ≈ One
I thought this was going to be a "which one was the biggest" failure threads, and I was ready to lol.
The difference here is that Sony created/funded Blu-ray. It's not like Plasmas and LCD's where they take what exists and give the consumer options. They created Blu-ray and spent years pushing it onto consumers just to turn around and go the digital only way, and fall back on the excuse of 'giving consumers options'.
But can you blame them? ......Nope.
Well then Sony would have a good understanding of physical medium or digital distribution if eventually it goes only one way. Well from what i see, its good to have DD for portable electronics (nobody wants to carry a portable cd player and a bunch of cds...same concept with psp), and keep physical for such as home etc.
It's almost like they're creating a direct competitor for themselves
| blunty51 said: ^ I see. Makes sense, I was concerned with the way they marketed each piece of hardware. They showcase each as 'the future', when clearly only one will survive, therefore taking the consumer along for the ride. But like I said, that's business. |
That is not true at all..just because Blu-Ray has been released does not mean CD or DVD will go away, it just means means that the formats are a slow evolution forward, and they will all still be around for quite some time. the very fact that Cloud computing is an advancement forward does not mean that optical format's will go away, nope because there need's to be a way to back up that data in the cloud, you may point out that there are many data storage server's in that cloud, but also on the same token each of those server's have to have some way to back up their data, local or remote that require's solid state or optical backup which optical disc's are cheaper per GB, and not as Volatile.
there is no clearly only one will survive, they both will survive and go hand in hand.
I AM BOLO
100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...
ps:
Proud psOne/2/3/p owner. I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.
| blunty51 said: The difference here is that Sony created/funded Blu-ray. It's not like Plasmas and LCD's where they take what exists and give the consumer options. They created Blu-ray and spent years pushing it onto consumers just to turn around and go the digital only way, and fall back on the excuse of 'giving consumers options'. But can you blame them? ......Nope. |
once again Blu-Ray is not A "sony only format"
11 of the largest Consumer electronic companies decided back in 2002 that the next evolution of the optical format was Blu-Ray.
Sony was just one of the companies that started early, just like panasonic and philips which followed soon after with Blu-Ray optical drive's soon after Sony.
I AM BOLO
100% lover "nothing else matter's" after that...
ps:
Proud psOne/2/3/p owner. I survived Aplcalyps3 and all I got was this lousy Signature.
| blunty51 said: The difference here is that Sony created/funded Blu-ray. It's not like Plasmas and LCD's where they take what exists and give the consumer options. They created Blu-ray and spent years pushing it onto consumers just to turn around and go the digital only way, and fall back on the excuse of 'giving consumers options'. But can you blame them? ......Nope. |
Panasonic is the major player in the Blu-ray scene, they have more invested in it than Sony does. Sony doesnt own Blu-ray, or do they have complete rights to it, they had a hand in creating it and was a one of the big players in the creation of it but not the biggest.
Ah I see, I stand corrected in that sense. So they just played a hand in starting it but don't benefit from it because of exclusive rights or anything.
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