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Originally Posted by EatingPie
Agreed. But just one little clarification, which started this whole mess. 
There was no "payoff." They gave free advertising via linked PS3 ads and whatnot, but they did not give studios any money directly (the payoff is what Toshiba did, not Sony). This is, again, according to Forbes, who quoted Sony, as cited in my previous post.
Now if we could just get them to link the Reader with PS3 ads!
Agreed on this too. And according to either the Forbes or Variety article I cited, the PS3 did end up being a deciding factor for studios.
-Pie |
Sorry I was getting my info from places like Gizmodo and this link.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08012/848675-96.stm
And from other forums I was apart of where people who pressed BDs for a living let it be known that Sony was footing the bill for an unspecified period of time for those studios to get their discs pressed. Toshiba ran scared and payed off Studios and that backfired.
All of this could have been viewed as one movie studio being nice and charitable to a competitor or a pay off. Either way this is a dead horse we are beating.
I enjoy my BD collection and sometimes my HDDVD collection but I have since moved onto Streaming.