I've been involved in the CE and IT business for over 10 years and from what I've seen over that time I can confidently say Sony would love to control the formats of every type of medium out there and thus take a licencing cut of everything. Everything from formats (ATRAC, Betamax etc) to memory cards have been re-invented by Sony so that they get a slice of the pie from everything you buy. That's right, the reason Sony cameras, phones and camcorders only use Memory Stick flash cards is so that they get more of your money. The other formats like SD, MMC and compact flash are better supported, cheaper and faster but obvioulsy Sony won't get your money of you buy them so they had to re-invent the wheel as such to make sure that never happened.
Sony used to make the best products at a particular price point but times are changing and other manufacturers have caught up and sometimes overtaken them. With their new philosophy of making things as difficult as possible for their customers, trying to extract the most amount of money possible and now rootkiting peoples PC's I have vowed never to buy another Sony product or CD again. That means I'm going HD-DVD rather than Blu-ray as I simply don't trust Sony anymore, and neither should you. Interestingly HD-DVD allows managed copy whereas Blu-ray does NOT. You have been warned.
- Sony exec Steve Heckler says Sony will firewall your PC to stop pirating
- Rather than using industry standard memory cards Sony introduces the Memory stick so that it can make money from you after it's sold you a camera, camcorder, laptop, phone etc
- Realisng that it's patents are about to run out on CD's Sony introduces SACD discs as a replacement for high end audio and multi channel audio rather than using DVD audio (DVD-A)
- Sony refuses to introduce a music player that actually plays MP3 files until this year. Up until now you had to covert your entire music collection over to ATRAC
- Sony rootkits your PC and then says "what, what's wrong?"
If you have any more please post your comments.
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