OT= Sony and Toshiba Blu Ray deal .. dead !

B_JM wrote on 6/13/2005, 6:26 AM
Beta Wars part Duex


Sony have confirmed that the prospect of a truce with Toshiba is all but dead. Both companies are proceeding with their product roll-outs for next-generation optical storage.

Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi commented the chances of coming up with a unified disc standard to replace Blu-Ray and HD-DVD in the future is slim. "There's very little chance that the negotiations will go through," he said in a statement.

Yesterday we reported that Toshiba were no longer interested in talking with Sony about a unified format for next-generation optical storage.

"We won't talk from our side," Toshiba Corporate Senior Vice President Yoshihide Fujii said.

"The 0.1-millimeter format seems impossible now," Fujii said, referring to the Blu-Ray optical cover layer thickness.


http://www.dvdrecorderworld.com/news/231

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 6/13/2005, 8:15 AM
You would thing these guy's could find some common ground. What is it down to now, ego? If I'm in business and going to bet billions on a product I must be awfully sure of myself. Sony evidently thinks everybody should be together but the other guy's see blood and are tightning the noose. Just my opinion.

JJK