Blu-ray, every mention

SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours) · Acquired Mar 7, 2022 · 11 mentions

• ▶ 1:59:22 David Rosenthal They had a, the cell processor was like the key to it had Blu-ray and the cell processor.
• ▶ 1:59:28 Ben Gilbert And the Blu-ray made the price tag kind of expensive.
• ▶ 1:59:32 David Rosenthal Blu-ray was expensive, and they wanted to do the same thing they did with the PS two, use it as the Trojan horse to get Blu-ray into living rooms, win the format war with HD DVD, and then this cell processor they developed with, I think,…
• ▶ 2:02:01 Ben Gilbert They also at the same time, and I know we're going to talk about Blu-ray, but it's worth pulling it into this story, lost a ton of money because Blu-ray's lifespan was just not as long as they thought it was going to be.
• ▶ 2:02:33 Ben Gilbert And so I don't think they ever really recouped their investment in Blu-ray.
• ▶ 2:03:56 David Rosenthal The Blu-ray fight was totally a Pyrrhic victory.
• ▶ 2:04:07 Ben Gilbert By the way, just to put some numbers around how royalties work, this like Blu-ray Disc Association earns about seven dollars for every Blu-ray player sold.
• ▶ 2:04:19 Ben Gilbert And then I think there's maybe two dollars that they make from selling the software that goes on it to be able to read the Blu-rays.
• ▶ 2:04:49 Ben Gilbert And I guess the point of this is even if Blu-ray went well, the point of this isn't
• ▶ 2:05:40 David Rosenthal Well, whether they did or didn't, they fail on both fronts with Blu-ray.
• ▶ 2:05:50 David Rosenthal And Blu-ray players do not become a major consumer electronics staple.