Hellboy
05-09-2007, 19:00
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Nieuws: Sony wil Microsoft graag in Blu-Ray kamp
Geschreven door Freek Ronner (http://www.xbox360only.nl/member.php?uid=4585)
Bron: Pocket-Lint (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/9946/10970/sony-invites-toshiba-blu-ray-group.phtml) -
English translation (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=nl_en&url=http://www.xbox360only.nl/nieuwsitem.php?nid=8130)
Woensdag 05 september 2007 - Waar de twee grootmachten geregeld in de meest uiteenlopende discussies belanden, verliep het onlangs ietwat anders. Sony, de producent van Blu-Ray discs en hiermee de directe concurrent van Microsoft, heeft de Amerikaanse gigant namelijk openlijk 'uitgenodigd' om bij het Blu-Ray kamp te komen. Lees verder voor meer details.
In een recent interview met Sony kopstukken Don Eklund en Rich Marty, bleek namelijk dat het bedrijf graag Microsoft en Toshiba in kamp Blu-Ray zou zien.
"We would love to have Toshiba and Microsoft on board" (Don Eklund)
Is dit een teken voor verdere onderhandelingen of zullen Microsoft en Sony blijven vechten tot op het bot?
Dus even de bron gecheckt en voila...
Bron: http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/9946/10970/sony-invites-toshiba-blu-ray-group.phtml
Sony invites Toshiba and Microsoft to join Blu-ray camp
Let's end the format war with hugs and kisses
by Stuart Miles
5 September 2007 9:00 GMT - Sony (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Sony) Pictures has openly invited Toshiba (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Toshiba) and Microsoft (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Microsoft) to join the Blu-ray (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Blu-ray) Disc Association.
The comment above comes from Don Eklund, executive vice president of advanced technologies and Rich Marty, vice president, new business (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/business) development, after Pocket-lint (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Pocket-lint) asked which companies they would most like to have in the Association, following the announcement from Acer (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Acer) that it would start to sell PCs with Blu-ray drives.
"We would love to have Toshiba (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/9946/10970/sony-invites-toshiba-blu-ray-group.phtml#) and Microsoft on board," said Don Eklund in an interview with Pocket-lint at IFA (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/IFA) in Berlin, Germany.
The IFA event saw an official announcement from Toshiba and the HD DVD (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/DVD) Promotion Group about the lowering of prices for both HD DVD (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/HD%20DVD) stand-alone players as well as for laptops (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/9946/10970/sony-invites-toshiba-blu-ray-group.phtml#) with HD DVD drives (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/DVD%20drives), trying to fight the format war on price points.
Eklund and Marty questioned Toshiba's pricing strategy; "Tosh can't keep dropping prices much more," said Eklund. "It maybe a strategy for fighting a format war, but for us it has to be profitable."
According to the vice president of technologies he'd: "Never thought the price was an issue... when it comes to investing in a state of the art entertainment system with HD-Ready television and surround sound system, having to spend a bit extra to get Blu-ray, we feel, isn't going to drive customers away. It's the bigger picture we are looking at."
That apparent naivety is why, according to the Blu-ray camp, players are considerably more expensive than their HD DVD counterparts, because they have to be profitable, and it seems that DVD no longer offered that kind of attractive bottom line.
"The DVD format was good, but profitability only lasted for a couple of years before there was no money to be had in the hardware market," said Marty. "We believe consumers are smart enough to realise the benefits and pay the extra accordingly."
When questioned on the internet, and the potential for the format war to be eclipsed entirely by movie downloads, sounding like music execs from the turn of the last century, both Eklund and Marty dismissed the potential of the internet:
"People aren't interested in downloading videos at the moment. The internet is a good way of delivering music but not video," said Eklund. "Blu-ray has a good 8 to 10 years before the internet catches up."
And as for how consumers are supposed to get around the Dreamworks (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Dreamworks) and Paramount (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Paramount) shift to HD DVD? "Buy it on DVD," Marty suggested - before quickly adding that Blu-ray players have upscaling features so you can still get the most out of the picture quality.
Zal wel uiteindelijk weer los lopen, maar goed... :) hiervoor is een forum he ;)
Nieuws: Sony wil Microsoft graag in Blu-Ray kamp
Geschreven door Freek Ronner (http://www.xbox360only.nl/member.php?uid=4585)
Bron: Pocket-Lint (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/9946/10970/sony-invites-toshiba-blu-ray-group.phtml) -
English translation (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=nl_en&url=http://www.xbox360only.nl/nieuwsitem.php?nid=8130)
Woensdag 05 september 2007 - Waar de twee grootmachten geregeld in de meest uiteenlopende discussies belanden, verliep het onlangs ietwat anders. Sony, de producent van Blu-Ray discs en hiermee de directe concurrent van Microsoft, heeft de Amerikaanse gigant namelijk openlijk 'uitgenodigd' om bij het Blu-Ray kamp te komen. Lees verder voor meer details.
In een recent interview met Sony kopstukken Don Eklund en Rich Marty, bleek namelijk dat het bedrijf graag Microsoft en Toshiba in kamp Blu-Ray zou zien.
"We would love to have Toshiba and Microsoft on board" (Don Eklund)
Is dit een teken voor verdere onderhandelingen of zullen Microsoft en Sony blijven vechten tot op het bot?
Dus even de bron gecheckt en voila...
Bron: http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/9946/10970/sony-invites-toshiba-blu-ray-group.phtml
Sony invites Toshiba and Microsoft to join Blu-ray camp
Let's end the format war with hugs and kisses
by Stuart Miles
5 September 2007 9:00 GMT - Sony (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Sony) Pictures has openly invited Toshiba (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Toshiba) and Microsoft (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Microsoft) to join the Blu-ray (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Blu-ray) Disc Association.
The comment above comes from Don Eklund, executive vice president of advanced technologies and Rich Marty, vice president, new business (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/business) development, after Pocket-lint (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Pocket-lint) asked which companies they would most like to have in the Association, following the announcement from Acer (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Acer) that it would start to sell PCs with Blu-ray drives.
"We would love to have Toshiba (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/9946/10970/sony-invites-toshiba-blu-ray-group.phtml#) and Microsoft on board," said Don Eklund in an interview with Pocket-lint at IFA (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/IFA) in Berlin, Germany.
The IFA event saw an official announcement from Toshiba and the HD DVD (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/DVD) Promotion Group about the lowering of prices for both HD DVD (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/HD%20DVD) stand-alone players as well as for laptops (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/9946/10970/sony-invites-toshiba-blu-ray-group.phtml#) with HD DVD drives (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/DVD%20drives), trying to fight the format war on price points.
Eklund and Marty questioned Toshiba's pricing strategy; "Tosh can't keep dropping prices much more," said Eklund. "It maybe a strategy for fighting a format war, but for us it has to be profitable."
According to the vice president of technologies he'd: "Never thought the price was an issue... when it comes to investing in a state of the art entertainment system with HD-Ready television and surround sound system, having to spend a bit extra to get Blu-ray, we feel, isn't going to drive customers away. It's the bigger picture we are looking at."
That apparent naivety is why, according to the Blu-ray camp, players are considerably more expensive than their HD DVD counterparts, because they have to be profitable, and it seems that DVD no longer offered that kind of attractive bottom line.
"The DVD format was good, but profitability only lasted for a couple of years before there was no money to be had in the hardware market," said Marty. "We believe consumers are smart enough to realise the benefits and pay the extra accordingly."
When questioned on the internet, and the potential for the format war to be eclipsed entirely by movie downloads, sounding like music execs from the turn of the last century, both Eklund and Marty dismissed the potential of the internet:
"People aren't interested in downloading videos at the moment. The internet is a good way of delivering music but not video," said Eklund. "Blu-ray has a good 8 to 10 years before the internet catches up."
And as for how consumers are supposed to get around the Dreamworks (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Dreamworks) and Paramount (http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/tags/t.phtml/Paramount) shift to HD DVD? "Buy it on DVD," Marty suggested - before quickly adding that Blu-ray players have upscaling features so you can still get the most out of the picture quality.
Zal wel uiteindelijk weer los lopen, maar goed... :) hiervoor is een forum he ;)