Toshiba seem to have a bigger game plan.....
http://www.reuters.com/article/ousivMolt/idUST28617520080220
You have to love the timing. On the same day as they effectively lose
one battle, they amortise some of their losses with an extra $800
million investment. The better Sony do now, the bigger cut Toshiba get.
I would love to know who it was that decided to make the two systems
incompatible...... once again, if that hadn't have happened HD-DVD
could have still lost, but without the public's purchases becoming
pretty much obsolete, and the hardware would still have a market.
There are probably more than 100,000 unsatisfied European customers
at the moment, by the figures on the net.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3LIL6dBGDGSJKaC2z7Z0mnBrZow
Rich
P.S. Good to see that the BBC are over their Rights Holders licensing
issues! :-)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080219/wr_nm/bbc_apple_dc
On 22 Feb 2008, at 12:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could be good marketing if they can make it cost effective. How
many people
bought HD-DVD anyway... presumably not /that/ many or the format
wouldn't
have gone belly up.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Barber
Sent: 22 February 2008 11:58
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] HD-DVD / Blu Ray
I don't know if it would make good business sense, but wouldn't it be
good if Sony came in right now and said 'hey all you HD-DVD deck
buyers - come swap it for a blu-ray deck for free/subsidised price'.
Could even swap it for a PS3, increasing game sales while they were at
it. Don't think the people that bought a shiny new deck to sit under
their TV would want a PS3 instead though.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 22 February 2008 08:03:43 Brian Butterworth wrote:
Is the BBC Shop going to swap defunt HD-DVD for BR versions?
Why would they (or any shop) do that? It'd perhaps be a nice
gesture,
but hardly a way to run a business - I'd be really surprised if (for
example)
WH Smith offered to do that.
I don't seem to recall that ever happening with the wreckage from
any
other
technology war...
Mind you, this really is the wrong place to ask that question -
why don't
you
mail them and ask? (they are a commercial entity run seperately
from the
rest of the BBC after all)
Michael.
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