Re: Suggesting Toshiba makes more money on each PS3 than Sony is ludicrous
- From: Lloyd Parsons <lloydparsons@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:05:43 -0600
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ninphan <sjburke73@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 19, 12:37 pm, "Big Johnston" <sobigupuk...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
This is interesting..
"Toshiba partly owns Cell already with IBM and Sony, now that Sony is
hurting
bad they are selling most of it to Toshiba.
This HD war is starting to look like BS and someone is laughing all the way
to the bank. Toshiba is massively huge, Sony is a like a banana next to an
800 pound Gorilla named Toshiba comparatively. If Beta Ray wins this so
called fight..Toshiba will make even more money plus get to sell Beta Ray
players to boot.
I think Sony and Toshiba are playing it up and the outcome..whatever it is
has been decided long ago"
http://www.eetimes.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201806724
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20071030a1.html
Toshiba are not huge and they have bleeding money on their HD DVD
division, which is what happens when one CE takes on all the others.
Panasonic and Samsung are both leaders in Blu-ray technology and both
of them are bigger than either Sony or Toshiba. Sony could drop Blu-
ray support altogether and it will still beat HD DVD.
There are 17 patent holders in Blu-ray including JVC, Sony, Philips,
Panasonic, Sharp, Sun Microsystems, Warner Bros., Hitachi, LG, Dell
and others.
HD DVD is Toshiba, there are only four companies on the governing
board - Toshiba, Sanyo, Memory-Tech and NEC.
Blu-ray board of directors is all the founding CE's of the DVD Forum
(minus Toshiba) along with Warner Bros., Dell, Apple, Walt Disney
Corporation, TDK, Sun Microsystems and others. Nothing can be done to
the Blu-ray format without the Board of Director's approving it.
In other words, Blu-ray is NOT "Sony" - in fact just like the Compact
Disc, the Laserdisc and the Super Audio CD, the majority of the
technology was developed by Philips.
You should look up all the companies financial statements as they are
in the public domain. I think you'd be quite surprised based on your
"banana" comment at how wrong you are.
The only 800lb. gorilla is Microsoft, not Toshiba.
What utter BS!! If Sony dropped out of Blu-Ray, BD dies. The PS3 is
the single thing that keeps it alive on the hardware side, or do you not
believe about 80% of the BD players are PS3's?
I think that Toshiba has sold more HDDVD players than all BD mfgs other
than Sony, combined.
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