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To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (11300)	3/16/2006 10:02:06 AM
From: The Duke of URL©	Respond to of 19789

Interesting thoughts. Also, I believe Sony released an encryption method about 6 months ago which damaged customers' computers. ????? One year in the gaming business, and maybe more is a real long time.

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (11300)	3/16/2006 10:53:46 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19789

This is a replay of what Sony did with Minidisc. It may be that the iPod would have destroyed Minidisc no matter what Sony did. Still, they did everything they could to assist in their own demise, spending time and money on internecine DRM warfare between the electronics division and the content divisions while customers waited for products that never came. The Minidisc started ahead of its time; it can still do some things no other comparably-priced technology can do. But it's dead anyway...Sony's content division killed it by, for example, preventing customers from uploading their own recordings--that is, of their own garage bands made with their own microphones--to their computers in digital form, even though the MD devices always kept the data in digital form. To get music on your PC you had to go through an absurd D-to-A-to-D conversion. The first Sony shirt-pocket MD recorder with hassle-free digital upload was released within the past year, after a management shakeup, years of customer defections, and hundreds of millions in losses. It's beyond belief to see the PS3 going down the same road. --QS

To: Wyätt Gwyön who wrote (11300)	3/16/2006 4:08:21 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 19789

a lot of it seems to be due to improving the copy protection features of Blu-Ray, a disc format nobody even HAS yet. so, again, Sony is more concerned with what benefits the content provide I don't know if you caught the new CEO of Sony on 60 minutes the other day. It was an enlightening interview. First of all I was amazed, literally amazed at the amount of BS projects going on at Sony with no business plan whatsoever. Like that aibo the dog, for example, what was THAT about? But anyway the new CEO said that his impression about Sony was that they were overly concerned with digital rights and consequently apple ran away with the market for ipod, itunes. I wonder if this PS3 delay is a residual effect of that line of thinking from the past or it is still going on? Because this will kill Sony again unless they get a handle on it. And once again just like Apple, there is a US manufacturer MSFT just sitting there ready to pick up the Sony spoils. We have examples of this in many industries here, networking/telecom being the most obvious with their "tiered internet" strategy which has absolutely ZERO value to consumers.