Originally posted by: Tiptup
Blue-ray is just as non-proprietary as HD-DVD.
Originally posted by: ferris209
*sigh* dammit, I sure hope Sony don't win this, I dread to see what they intend to do whenever they finally dominate a market with one of there proprietary formats as they've been trying to do for the last 30 years.
*sigh* dammit, I sure hope Sony don't win this, I dread to see what they intend to do whenever they finally dominate a market with one of there proprietary formats as they've been trying to do for the last 30 years.
Blue-ray is just as non-proprietary as HD-DVD.
Maybe I phrased that wrong. What I am referring to is the fact that current factories producing DVD's can be slightly altered and can make HD DVD's, I'm pretyt confident that licensing fees would be minimal if history is correct. However, to make Blu-Ray discs, it takes a whole factory re-tooling and I am pretty certain they'd jack up licensing fees like crazy once they leave HD DVD dead in the dirt. That all equals high assed Blu-Ray discs. Maybe I'm wrong, I dunno, I'm just speculating about a subject I admittedly don't know much about other than what I read on here and in the news.