{"id":7348,"date":"2005-03-24T12:09:14","date_gmt":"2005-03-24T19:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/03\/24\/sanity-in-the-standards-wars-inconceivable.html"},"modified":"2005-03-24T12:09:14","modified_gmt":"2005-03-24T19:09:14","slug":"sanity_in_the_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/03\/24\/sanity_in_the_s.html","title":{"rendered":"Sanity in the standards wars? Inconceivable!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony is making noises that its support for the Blu-Ray next-generation DVD format may not preclude reaching some sort of compromise<\/a> with its HD-DVD competitors:<\/p>\n

“Listening to the voice of the consumers, having two rival formats is disappointing, and we haven’t totally given up on the possibility of integration or compromise,” Ryoji Chubachi, Sony’s president-elect, said at a news conference today in which he discussed the company’s performance and future strategy.<\/p>\n

[…] HD-DVD backers, which include NEC Corp. and Toshiba Corp., say HD-DVDs can be produced for about the same price as DVDs and are backward-compatible with DVDs and CDs, making the format more convenient for both consumers and the industry. HD-DVD movie titles, PC drives and players are all due out by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Sony has steadfastly promoted Blu-ray as a technology that has greater capacity, saying this makes the format more useful because more content can be stored on a disc. The technology also has wider support in the technology industry, although release dates for movie titles have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n

Chubachi’s comments mark the second time that a Sony executive has signaled the possibility of a compromise between the two camps. In January, Ken Kutaragi, executive deputy president of Sony, said a format war wasn’t in the public interest and that Sony hadn’t ruled out the possibility of uniting the formats.<\/p>\n

Indeed it is not in the public interest — and, further, is the thing most likely to keep folks from investing in either technology. Folks have become a lot more sensitized to standards issues than they were in the Beta-vs-VHS days (and to some degree because of that), and are less willing to pony up for a machine that will be only useful for some title and not for others.<\/p>\n

And Sony has not been exactly the most successful in promoting alternative formats and technologies, even though its offerings — from Betamax to Mini-discs — have been technologically spiffy.<\/p>\n

If they can come up with a compromise on this, everyone will be muuuuuch happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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