UG! Since when did H.D.-D.V.D. start using BLUE lasers?

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by ra1024

Are you at liberty to shed some light on this? I'm very interested to know if there will be repercussions for a lot of what's gone on. I asked a question in the insiders thread regarding this but never heard anyone respond. I think it got lost in the shuffle due to the holiday schedule and the constant chattering, .

Basically I was wondering if the BDA could/would punish the likes of Toshiba and Paramount. I thought refusing to grant Toshiba a player license and hitting Paramount with excessive title licenses would be a nice end to the format war.

By this I meant the people they had to team up with to try and win with HD DVD are the very same people that destroyed DVD hardware profits, the Chinese.

The problem in letting the Chinese in is that it is a very difficult to get them to pay licencing fees and royalties as they hide behind their government and threaten CEs with all sorts of embargos.

Punishing Toshiba will not be necessary, losing the war is all the punishment they need. Look at what happened to Sony when they lost the Beta war, they went to Philips for CD, caved for the DVD specification and teamed up with about six different CEs with BD. Toshiba will have to learn the hard way, much like Sony have already done.