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MGM Purchase Gives Sony An Edge In Disc Format War

Posted by timothy on from the any-color-so-long-as-it's-sony dept.

Grump writes "The New York Times reports: 'The purchase of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by a group led by Sony will not only give the company an enormous film library but also considerable power in its fight to set the format for the next generation of digital video discs.' The article goes on to suggest that Sony is gearing up for another Betamax-style failure."

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  1. no, don't do that... by Chuck+Bucket · · Score: 2, Funny

    cause if they don't, there won't be businesses like: Transfer your Betamax Videos to DVD. this way, when we don't have any more IT jobs, we can convert one DVD types to another DVD types...

    CB$#@#$@

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  2. Once bitten, twice shy by tod_miller · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh Sony, first betamax, and your memory stick (ok it is cute).

    I wrote you a haiku to make you feel better

    lets buy MGM
    why not it'll be fun, come on
    hail our new disc format

    ok it isn't that good but whatever.

    I can imagine a new Blu-ray player with memory stick input and built in ps3! :-0

    In fact, will PS3 use the new disc format? or PS4?

    I say good luck to em. As long as I can write my XVid movies to 'em :-) :-) :-)

    *come on that is the real need here!*

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  3. Re:should that be... by BlueTooth · · Score: 2, Funny

    Not to question the great Wikipedia in the sky, but I was under the impression that DVD originally stood for Digital Video Disc, but then everyone was like "no, its more than just video, cuz it will work really nice in computers and stuff" (unlike the hack used to put data on CDs)...and so they want with Digial Versital Disc...

    If it was "Versital" from the start, they should have gone with the gramatically more sensible "Versital Digial Disc"...VDD. Not to be confused with the compeating "Venerial Disease Disc" format.

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  4. Re:Nothing Compelling by garcia · · Score: 2, Funny

    Instead of 6 discs per season for tv-shows you'd only need 1. Heck you could press whole series on 1 disc.

    Oh come on... Then I wouldn't get to have a fold out DVD cover with David Hasselhoff showing his chest hair and 80's fro on my Knight Rider DVD season 1 DVD set.

  5. Really Betamax? by tjansen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does it have to be a Betamax-style failure? What about a Minidisk-style failure? Or a Memory-Stick-style failure? Or an Attrac3-style failure?

    Sony spent the last 20 years creating redundant formats that nobody wants.

  6. Re:Bad news by syrinx · · Score: 3, Funny

    (Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2). I can see the fucking dollar signs in their eyes for ones that actually made money because people wanted to go see the original!

    Heh... "Moore Bullshit: Fahrenheit 912"

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  7. I'm in a bind here by Ann+Coulter · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sony is developing OLEDs. But Sony is also trying to infest the market with DRM technologies. So I bring back an ad hoc poll from a few years ago:

    Today, Sony is

    a) Good
    b) Bad
    c) CowboyNeal

    I choose CowboyNeal.