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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. $ony is the electronics world M$ by SmashPot · · Score: -1, Troll

    $ony is just like M$. They want to lock you into their formats and technology so anyone wanting to access that target market has to license $ony crap. Simple enough. They want our money and electronics manufacturer's money. No other reason

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  2. /. obsessed with Sony by realkiwi · · Score: -1, Troll

    In other news Microsoft fanboy /. once again called for burning Sony at the stake on a public place...

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  3. Re:Those who ignore facts are doomed to look stupi by DigiShaman · · Score: 0, Troll

    And yet, I can't find a SINGLE blueray disk on the shelf at Frys Electronics. However, I remember seeing at least twelve or more HD-DVDs.

    BlueRay was dead before it even got out the door. How pathetic!!!!

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