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There's advantages and disadvantages to pushing and protecting your own format. It ties people down to your product. If your product controls the majority of the market then this can be a good thing... but when the market is fragmented then it becomes hard and you loose sales because customers don't know which product to go for and in the end the whole market begins to suffer. This is why the games industry in Britain is beginning to fail. Games makers spend more time developing games for 3 or more platforms rather than one uniform platform which used to be the PC games market back in the day.

I think it's a good move from Sony.
 
sony are moving away from the proprietory devices of old, they now embrace other sorts of memory card, and developed bluray as part of a group rather than on their own. And..the ps3 is about to get a redesign to be slimmer and cheaper...I think its because the company is currently under the chairmanship of an american business man who isnt caught up in the traditional ways of operating the company
 
They did a similar thing with their recording devices a while back.
Used to use something named ATTRAC, a right pain according to some recording friends, it was on MINIDISC. Must admit never troubled me.
Now use S/D machines anyway.
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minidisc was used industry wide so there was a big use of that standard at the time, it never took off for the general public but certainly wasnt the failure that some would have you believe.
 
I know a lot of performers that still use minidisc to record their live performances. Remember Sony bought out versions of their recorders that supported mp3 recording to minidisc? That was bizarre. But yeah, it was quite successful in industry, just not as mainstream product.
 
Still got my tiny mini disk player/recorder - great bit of kit, shame it never caught on. Still see it around a fair bit though and hear it mentioned on radio quite a lot.
 
matty said:
I think its because the company is currently under the chairmanship of an american business man who isnt caught up in the traditional ways of operating the company
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he's a Brit (Welsh) ... although he does have US citizenship as well.
Sir Howard Stringer.
 
we use minidisks in the station for idents and stuff more reliable than home made cds and dont take up a slot in the cdjs when we do location stuff
 
ps3 from tomorrow $299 or €299, or whatever it ends up being here(£250 in asda). BBC iplayer service and movie downloads coming soon, great if you have a good internet connection, but its looking like sony are getting the system up to date in europe. all good!
 
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