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Sony's Obsession with Proprietary Formats

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the repeating-the-mistakes-of-yore dept.

geoffrobinson writes "Jonathan Last, writing for a lay audience in the Philadelphia Inquirer, comments on Sony's push for the Blu-ray format: 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. One of life's more satisfying ironies, however, is that the same fate often befalls those who fixate on history... ...Obsessed with owning proprietary formats, Sony keeps picking fights. It keeps losing. And yet it keeps coming back for more, convinced that all it needs to do is push a bigger stack of chips to the center of the table.'"

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  1. Re:does it really matter? by The-Ixian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    yes, because as we all know WoW is the first and only MMO and all internet jargon has derived it.

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  2. Not DevStation, but Devastation by paranerd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Look at the bottom of the slide. The typo isn't with the capital 'M' but with the missing 'A'

  3. Re:does it really matter? by KlomDark · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "A good 1080i broadcast looks absolutely sick."

    UH... OK... You mean like fever and puking and diarrhea?

    That's great.

    Oh, let me guess, you're some punk-ass wanna-be hipper-hopper using kewl hand signals and saying illegible shit like "Dat beyotch be absolutely seeick?"

    How about "A good 1080i broadcast looks absolutely !=."

    Go get yourself some bling and get the fuck out of here.