Neutral studios hesistant to support Sony?

[Filmmaker85]

I mean with the current buyout of viacom/Paramount are studios hesistant to support blu-ray because its owned and run by Sony? I looked at how Warner bros. hasn't really been open to releasing most of their titles on blu-ray such as Batman Begins. I mean do they not trust Sony because it is also a film studio and they don't want them controling their products? If blu-ray is going to win this format war Sony is going to have to play dirty. I see it coming down to a bidding war for studio support. Blu-ray needs to lock up a deal with Warner Bros.

[owa]

Blu-ray isn't owned and run by Sony.

Grabbed the following from wiki.

Blu-ray was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group of leading consumer electronics companies. The standard is covered by several patents belonging to different companies. As of March 2007, a joint licensing agreement for all the relevant patents has not yet been finalized.

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) is the industry consortium that develops and licenses Blu-ray Disc technology and responsible for establishing format standards and promoting and further developing business opportunities for Blu-ray Disc. The BDA is divided into three levels of membership: the Board of Directors, the Contributors and the General Members. [1]

The "Blu-ray Disc Founder" was founded in May 2002 by nine leading electronic companies: Matsushita, Pioneer, Philips, Thomson, LG Electronics, Hitachi, Sharp, Samsung and Sony as contrast to the DVD Forum. Spearheaded by NP Infotech on February 19th 2002 the companies announced [2] they were the "Founders" of the Blu-ray Disc and later changed their name to the "Blu-ray Disc Association" on May 18, 2004 in order to achieve more companies joining their development. Some examples of companies that signed in include Apple, TDK, Dell, Hewlett Packard, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. and Universal Music Group. At the moment there are more than 250 members and supporters of the Association.

[WickyWoo]

This is a common misconception

Blu-Ray is not owned by Sony. Panasonic has more patents in the format than Sony does, and like DVD before it, member companies get profit sharing and funds from the patents they contributed. Warner's "holdbacks" have nothing to do with a mistrust of anyone, and have a lot more to do with double agents like Steve Nickerson working for the HD side.

Every member of the BDA controlls their own products, just like with DVD

[spam.curitiba]

*sigh*.....now if you look at HD DVD.......how many companies my players for it???? And how many for blu-ray?

[lokus]

I think the lack of WB support with Blu-ray also is due to the fact that they port many of their movies over into Blu-ray. There is currently no profile support for PiP and certain features that are on the HD-DVD edition. I wouldn't be surprised if we get release dates in the future for these titles once profile 1.1 is official. If I'm not mistaken they have already announced Terminator 3 which was HD-DVD only.

[radagast]

Originally Posted by Filmmaker85

I mean with the current buyout of viacom/Paramount are studios hesistant to support blu-ray because its owned and run by Sony?

I really get tired of hearing this. WHEN are people going to find out that PHILIPS and Sony developed Blu-ray?

WHEN???

[spam.curitiba]

Originally Posted by radagast

I really get tired of hearing this. WHEN are people going to find out that PHILIPS and Sony developed Blu-ray?

WHEN???

good question.....anything with sony's name on it people take it as they developed it so it is bad. Hell sony makes the best TV's out there right now. Are those those dumbshits that hate sony not going to buy one because sony's name is on it?

It is childish...