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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 3978754" data-attributes="member: 149"><p>Yeah, HD are definitely better overall and with Terabyte drives continually dropping in price some sort of media server IS definitely going to be the ultimate end point of this sort of product. But that isn't really going to happen until Hollywood pulls it's head out of its... </p><p></p><p>There's also something to be said for having a backup for stuff like this in disk form though. HD will and will always crash eventually.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There's enough blame to go around on all sides for this format war. Toshiba made a ton of money off of their DVD patents and wanted to continue that. While Sony wanted in on the gravy train as well. It wasn't a simple matter of intransigence on just one side or the other.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>From what I understand of things. Blu-Ray is no more completely controlled by Sony than DVD was by Toshiba/Philips. It's controlled and licensed by a consortium, like with DVDs and CDs. Sony does indeed have the major patents on the technology, but this doesn't mean that they have control over the end products. So AFAIK, there's no reason why MS couldn't buy a "raw" blu-ray drive from one of the chinese hardware manufacturers for use with an X-Box, just like they do now with DVD and HD-DVD drive hardware. </p><p></p><p>I'm sure Sony would love to screw over MS in the way you suggest. However, I've long been of the opinion that Sony views the battle over the disk format and the patent revenues as more important than the fight over the consoles. After all, the drives and disks are both used far more widely than any console ever could be and a cut of that revenue stream is going to be immensely lucrative. That's why they included it in the PS3, despite the extra expense it added to the PS3. They wanted to help ensure that Blu-Ray would win the format war, as it appears to have done. So I doubt they'd jeopardize that by such a raw abuse of power, assuming they even could.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 3978754, member: 149"] Yeah, HD are definitely better overall and with Terabyte drives continually dropping in price some sort of media server IS definitely going to be the ultimate end point of this sort of product. But that isn't really going to happen until Hollywood pulls it's head out of its... There's also something to be said for having a backup for stuff like this in disk form though. HD will and will always crash eventually. There's enough blame to go around on all sides for this format war. Toshiba made a ton of money off of their DVD patents and wanted to continue that. While Sony wanted in on the gravy train as well. It wasn't a simple matter of intransigence on just one side or the other. From what I understand of things. Blu-Ray is no more completely controlled by Sony than DVD was by Toshiba/Philips. It's controlled and licensed by a consortium, like with DVDs and CDs. Sony does indeed have the major patents on the technology, but this doesn't mean that they have control over the end products. So AFAIK, there's no reason why MS couldn't buy a "raw" blu-ray drive from one of the chinese hardware manufacturers for use with an X-Box, just like they do now with DVD and HD-DVD drive hardware. I'm sure Sony would love to screw over MS in the way you suggest. However, I've long been of the opinion that Sony views the battle over the disk format and the patent revenues as more important than the fight over the consoles. After all, the drives and disks are both used far more widely than any console ever could be and a cut of that revenue stream is going to be immensely lucrative. That's why they included it in the PS3, despite the extra expense it added to the PS3. They wanted to help ensure that Blu-Ray would win the format war, as it appears to have done. So I doubt they'd jeopardize that by such a raw abuse of power, assuming they even could. [/QUOTE]
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