Joseph DeMartino wrote:
>
> 2) It is true that Sony, as a member of the Blu-Ray Disc Association,
> gets a share of the royalty payments on all Blu-Ray players and
> discs.  So do Pioneer, 20th Century Fox and other members of the
> group.  But if that tiny fee makes all BD players and films "Sony
> Products", then your boycott ended a long time ago.
>
> I can only assume you own a DVD player and/or a DVD computer drive,
> and discs to go with them.  If so, Sony has already collected money
> from you in the form of license fees paid to the DVD Forum.  Sony was
> a founding member of that group, too, and like the BDA, the DVD Forum
> maintains the format standards and imposes a fee for the right to
> display the group's patented logo on players and discs.

For a while I avoided DVD drives because they were locked.  At some
point crackers published the key and that objection fell away, but it
fell away for bad reasons.  Eventually DVD burner drives came to some
price point and I got them in various machines.

For the moment my current objections to Blu-Ray aren't because of Sony. 
They have the same form as my previous DVD objections.  At some point
the price point for burners will drop to where I can move my collections
from CD-ROM, cassette and DVD to Blu-Ray.  Having it's format be
encrypted will fit in their somewhere.

The Emmas mini-series should be good.  Somehow I ended up liking
Victorian romances.
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