Thread: New Chapter on Digital Reading (Sony)
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Old 09-14-2008, 03:09 PM   #116
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Originally Posted by Argel View Post
Sony's past is littered with examples of how their paranoid devotion to tying their devices to protected formats relegates them to the margins, despite the fact that their hardware is often superior - as is the 505 to my Cybook, by a mile. Would the iPod be where it is today if Sony hadn't tied their original player to a proprietary format? I would I still be buying Vaio laptops if they hadn't gone out of their way to fit a DVD drive hard-wired not to play my (legally obtained) region one DVDs.

They have real chance to challenge Amazon's potential dominance but I expect them to blow it again.
Well, they're learning. Walkmans play mp3s now, and Reader has an SD slot and reads RTF and PDF.
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