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Originally Posted by Luwalira  Because Sony thinks they are better than everyone else. I hate their very undiplomatic practises. The whole world was united with HD-DVD as the successor for DVD(hence the name*)...........until Sony slamed their fist in the table and said that they were going to give birth to their own format by the name bluray. |
This is incorrect. Sony developed DVR blue (later renamed Blu-ray) in 1999 and first prototypes were presented in October 2000. In February 2002 Blu-ray Disc Association was formed by Sony, Philips, Hitachi, Pioneer, Matsushita, LG, Samsung, Sharp and Thomson.
The DVD Forum which was chaired by Toshiba decided that they wanted their own blue-laser HD disc in April 2002. In August 2002 Toshiba and NEC announced their competing standard Advanced Optical Disc. AVD was renamed HD DVD in 2003.
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Originally Posted by Luwalira They did the same thing back when DVD was high tech, they created their own path with Betamax but lost.
Their MP3players which only plays Sony's format ATRAC, failed for 3-4 years until Sony took the thumb out of their asses and began selling MP3players which can actually play the format without the user having to convert all their songs to ATRAC.
What else do we have.......hmm Mini Dics and UMD off course. Like you see Sony are format whores and do everything they can to ruin it for the consumers. Now they are probably very happy that Toshiba and all those people with HD-DVD players and media have products which will be useless in 2-3 years. |
Well, I do agree that Sony likes to develop new standards, in some cases to an excessive extent but for their defence I must say they are usually superior from technological POV. Betamax was more advanced than VHS but they didn't get the film industry on their side. ATRAC, MiniDisc and UMD were probably developed in the music/entertainment industry in mind to prevent large-scale piracy.
Sure Sony has made mistakes more than once but they aren't any more arrogant than many other major companies. They are not even close to the arrogance level of Microsoft for example.