[supercat]

Sony has on occasion had a winner:

I guess Sony had learned from the Betamax that trying to be an exclusive supplier of something doesn't work if someone can come up with an alternative (Mr. Robertson and Mr. Phillips demonstrated the principle many decades before). And they weren't yet fighting themselves since they weren't in any sort of software business.

I don't like the notion that Sony can kill disks by remote control, but Blu-Ray includes that as a deliberate feature. IMHO, that should eliminate it entirely from consideration.

[Yo-Yo]

I don't like the notion that Sony can kill disks by remote control, but Blu-Ray includes that as a deliberate feature. IMHO, that should eliminate it entirely from consideration.

Amen!

Although Betamax was ultimately a consumer flop, based solely on price of players, Betacam, based on the same cassette shell, lives on today in almost every TV station in the country.

Sony does do some strange things, though, from time to time.

[Paul C. Jesup]

I don't like the notion that Sony can kill disks by remote control, but Blu-Ray includes that as a deliberate feature. IMHO, that should eliminate it entirely from consideration.

Sony must not think it has enough class action lawsuits for right now...

[Paul C. Jesup]

I don't like the notion that Sony can kill disks by remote control, but Blu-Ray includes that as a deliberate feature. IMHO, that should eliminate it entirely from consideration.

Sony must not think it has enough class action lawsuits against them right now...