Sony willing to compromise on Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD?

Sony willing to compromise on Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD?

Posted Mar 24, 2005, 11:07 AM ET by Peter Rojas

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Is Sony opening the door to some sort of truce between Blu-ray and
HD-DVD? It’s seems way late in the game to be talking about unifying
the two warring high-def disc standards, esp. considering how much
HD-DVD and Blu-ray hardware is already in the pipeline, but incoming
Sony prez Ryoji Chubachi said an interview earlier today that they
“haven’t totally given up on the possibility of integration or
compromise,” and that Sony, which is backing Blu-ray hardcore,
understands that having “two rival formats is disappointing.” (You can
say that again, brother.) This is actually the second time this year
that a top Sony exec has indicated that they’re willing to work things
out with the companies that are backing HD-DVD (like Toshiba and NEC),
but the question is, what are they going to do to make it happen? If
there was an easy or obvious compromise to be found it probably would
have happened already. Where was all this conciliatory talk two years
ago?

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000650037478/






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