OT, but needs atention!!!

[Paul Maddox]

All,

  well time to join in the communal sony bashing..

  Think about it for a second , from their point,  they have a 
product which they want to release, why should they make
it compatible with anything else? it doesnt make sense, if
you are able to market something that people will buy and then
force an upgrade situation later and get yourself a pile of
guarenteed buisness in a few years (intel pentium anyone?)

  From YOUR point of view they are controlling the market
with unfair tactics, from their point of view, its good buisness
sense, take apple macs, they are sooo much better than PC's
but they licnesed the architecture, so how many amc clones do
you see? this is why sony need to play it carefull, if you make it
to unique no-one will go for it.

  Take my favourite subject, Playstations... Sony control the retail
price of both the unit AND the games, how? They insist that if a software
company makes a game they send it to sony for pressing with their
unique cd format (funky deep blue). Its got NOTHING to do with protecting
the software for pirateing (it happens anyway!) what it does mean is that
they control the price of the games by charging software companys
a fee for doing this. so they make money from the sale of the game, the console
and from the software company, they also control which games get released
and for how long and to a big part the amount of exposure they get.

  Now, think carefully, its NOT just sony who do this, MOST of the
larger more successfull companys do it, it makes good sense..

  Sony screwed up with the VIDEO2000 system, when Betamax and VHS
where around, Beta was technically better, but VHS had better marketting
and stronger support from manufacturers (Read:cheaper). I think sont
learned a BIG lesson from this.

  Take Radio one and their "PLAYLIST", I wonder how many lunchs/gifts
Station managers get to have a single added to a play list?

  You cant slag off a company for makeing money, its why they exist.

   I agree its a shame how they do it, but they can and they do. more and
more companys these days are doing the same, its about MONEY these
days not about what/who, but MONEY..

   In short anyone who wants to stay in buisness MUST protect their own
product.

   Paul Maddox


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-----Original Message-----
From:	KA4HJH [SMTP:ka4hjh at gte.net]
Sent:	Tuesday, December 14, 1999 10:50 PM
To:	synth-diy at mailhost.bpa.nl
Subject:	Re: OT, but needs atention!!!

>And take the case of DVD. Where now, Sony feel squeezed out of the market.
>So what do they do? Try to introduce their own DVD standard and thrust it
>upon the world. A DVD standard that is largely incompatible with the
>original specifications. Why? They say because their ideas are better. But
>in reality it's because at the very least, they know that by doing so, it
>will muddy the waters and confuse the end consumer.

So, has the Sony version been cracked yet? The original has...by 
someone trying get DVD to work with Linux!

Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
"The Mac Doctor"

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