I'm not a Sony fan, but this stuff just happens in a lot of companies.
Besides if HD-DVD had been designed as something more than just a medium to hold HD movies I'd be more willing to support them, but I need something that can store data too and 30GB isn't enough. Especially when you can only find 15GB disks right now and I've still never seen a HD-DVD burner in the wild.
MS has a player in their video game console. They don't make or sell movies. Currently they don't even put games on HD-DVD discs. So they have NOTHING to do with this topic. You can't form a cartel and alter the prices of media that you're not involved with at all.
The synonym for cartel is a monopoly and MS just got fined for monopolistic practices by the EU. I didn't say MS was trying to cartel HD-Disks, you're just assuming that.
I'm just pointing out that none of these companies are perfect. So I don't see why these HD-DVD fanboys are jumping over here to complain about Sony's monopolistic practices when they've got a culprit on their side too. I mean the second post was about Blu-ray and the article is about video tapes. So I don't see the relevance of your argument. If you can ignore MS practices when it doesn't apply to the format was how can you do the opposite for Sony.
It's the price of economic freedom that your going to have stuff like this happen. You can't stop it, you can only hope to keep it in check.
@Gavin, You do know that Blu-ray isn't totally owned by Sony, but founded by 9 companies: Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung and Sony. All together, there are 18 members in the board.
Besides, this fine was for a cartel for controlling 85% of the professional videotape market. It has nothing to do with consumer electronics. If it were not for Sony's PS2, we would not have DVDs at such low prices. Think about that instead.
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This is exactly why I hope Blu Ray (Sony) will not win the HD format "war." Sony = high prices = cartel = bad for consumers...
and MS doesn't do any of this?
I'm not a Sony fan, but this stuff just happens in a lot of companies.
Besides if HD-DVD had been designed as something more than just a medium to hold HD movies I'd be more willing to support them, but I need something that can store data too and 30GB isn't enough. Especially when you can only find 15GB disks right now and I've still never seen a HD-DVD burner in the wild.
MS has a player in their video game console. They don't make or sell movies. Currently they don't even put games on HD-DVD discs. So they have NOTHING to do with this topic. You can't form a cartel and alter the prices of media that you're not involved with at all.
The synonym for cartel is a monopoly and MS just got fined for monopolistic practices by the EU. I didn't say MS was trying to cartel HD-Disks, you're just assuming that.
I'm just pointing out that none of these companies are perfect. So I don't see why these HD-DVD fanboys are jumping over here to complain about Sony's monopolistic practices when they've got a culprit on their side too. I mean the second post was about Blu-ray and the article is about video tapes. So I don't see the relevance of your argument. If you can ignore MS practices when it doesn't apply to the format was how can you do the opposite for Sony.
It's the price of economic freedom that your going to have stuff like this happen. You can't stop it, you can only hope to keep it in check.
@Gavin, You do know that Blu-ray isn't totally owned by Sony, but founded by 9 companies: Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung and Sony. All together, there are 18 members in the board.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association
Besides, this fine was for a cartel for controlling 85% of the professional videotape market. It has nothing to do with consumer electronics. If it were not for Sony's PS2, we would not have DVDs at such low prices. Think about that instead.