Europe can't even have a format war now.

Johnnytoxic · 4 Jul 2007 at 16:35

This anti competitive thing really gets my goat. Blu-ray and HD-DVD both have there exclusives in movie studios and CE support so why don't they just let things slide.

So now we can't have one dominant format according to them because of anti competivness. Forget that it confuses the hell out of the public and what a complete mess having both formats survive would be. Too many organisations nowadays not letting people run there own things.

http://www.tvpredictions.com/europeblu070307.htm

Energize · 4 Jul 2007 at 17:04

Do they want blu-ray to just let hd-dvd win? :confused:

El_Watcher · 4 Jul 2007 at 20:09

They are not saying that being exclusive is anti-competitive.
What they are saying is "Were you paid by Sony to be exclusive?"
This would definitely be anti-competitive.
They are probably looking at HD-DVD and Universal as well but it is fairly obvious that Toshiba didn't need to pay Uni, Uni hates Sony with a passion.

kinggost · 4 Jul 2007 at 21:28

El_Watcher said:
They are not saying that being exclusive is anti-competitive.
What they are saying is "Were you paid by Sony to be exclusive?"
This would definitely be anti-competitive.
They are probably looking at HD-DVD and Universal as well but it is fairly obvious that Toshiba didn't need to pay Uni, Uni hates Sony with a passion.

So it funny how micosoft can buy companys or rights to games tho

vintage-x · 5 Jul 2007 at 02:28

kinggost said:
So it funny how micosoft can buy companys or rights to games tho

I was just thinking that

FrankJH · 5 Jul 2007 at 05:12

kinggost said:
So it funny how micosoft can buy companys or rights to games tho

Thats the crucial difference - MS just hands over the cash to buy the company hahahaha

kinggost · 5 Jul 2007 at 07:06

obviousley some one just didnt like sony doing it. I remember when microsoft brought bungie so is was a exclusive to xbox then all of a sudden bill must have wated more money so he realeased it on windows.

Fr0dders · 5 Jul 2007 at 11:45

its the European Union at it again

they did the same thing with Microsoft. sueing them over providing media player with windows

the fact of the matter is, that there were plenty of other players out there managing to keep afloat in the market, but they were innovative, instead of trying to charge for a piece of software that was crap, like realplayer was trying to do.

when nobody wanted it, as there was no real reason to buy realplayer over media player, they went and cryed to the EU.

Energize · 5 Jul 2007 at 12:57

Yeah I didn't really see what the point in windows "n" was because no retailers even bothered to stock it, making it utterly pointless.