Playstation 3 Sony unfair to use Blu-Ray technology in PS3?

DivineSin · 8 Dec 2005

ajiKaBooM! said:

Thought i'd resuscitate this thread by adding a relevant link from The Register stating:

Warner Home Video boss blasts Sony
Blu-ray vs HD DVD = PS3 vs Xbox 360
By Tony Smith
Published Thursday 8th December 2005 11:31 GMT

The battle between the next-generation games consoles will determine the winner of the fight between the next-generation optical disc formats.

So claimed the president of Warner Home Video, Warren Lieberfarb, this week, as he slammed Sony's strategy to help Blu-ray Disc (BD) to beat HD DVD. Ironically, Warner itself is playing it safe by backing both BD and HD DVD.

Lieberfarb's concern is that Sony is turning the optical disc battle into the console fight, and vice versa. And with Microsoft tossing its hat in the ring on the side of HD DVD, he's probably right. Certainly, Sony's decision to equip the PS3 with a BD drive will have helped many a content company come down on the side of BD.

"If I put Blu-Ray in PlayStation and I don't license it to Microsoft for Xbox and I get all the studios to only publish in PlayStation, I'll beat Microsoft in the next-generation games market," said Lieberfarb, speaking at the European Video Perspectives conference in Biarritz, France.

"Hollywood blew it. They got duped," Lieberfarb claimed. "They could have created the format that optimised their creative interests. It looks like we lost, because there are six studios supporting Blu-Ray and only three supporting HD-DVD.

"We've been sucked into PlayStation versus Xbox," he said.

And there's no doubt on which side of the fence Lieberfarb sits - he called on the video industry to back HD DVD and, by his own argument, Microsoft and Xbox.

"Convergence is here, everything is digital, the Internet is going to deliver video, you are going to want to pass information from one device to another, and HD-DVD versus Blu-Ray is really the first battle in the issue of who controls the home," he said.

Indeed. Sony or Microsoft - take your pick... ®
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I dont understand how this article could be correct considering that both formats were announced way before we even knew the ps3 would include a blu-ray drive. Hell, the xbox 360 might not even include one, and if it does it will just be for watching movies. The true fact is that microsoft wanted to go with HD-DVD in the first place for its PC streaming capabilities and Sony wanted to go with blu-ray for the size of the disk, the protection on the disk, and because..its one of the main people backing the disk. In reality HD-DVD is just being stubborn, it is clearly not the better format, and doesnt have anything other than 'price' over blu-ray. The companies are just being cheap because they dont want to upgrade there factories.

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