Microsoft, Toshiba, snuggle up
p2pnet.net News:- Microsoft and Toshiba today announced a “significant expansion” of their “global relationship to enhance the development and delivery of innovative digital consumer electronics products and personal computers by sharing each other’s respective hardware and software technologies”.
It’s all to the benefit of customers, “while demonstrating mutual respect for each company’s intellectual property rights,” they claim.
MicroShiba will investigate development of high-definition DVD players using Windows technology, and will also work on iHD, the DVD Forum’s latest interactivity format.
They already have a cross-licensing agreement covering PCs and digital consumer electronics.
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MicroShiba – Microsoft and Toshiba Strengthen Relationship, June 27, 2005
June 27th, 2005 at 9:25 pm
So I bet this means MS will be paying Toshiba, so that Sony wont be able to make an HD-DVD + Blu-ray hybrid…
That would be pretty bad for MS… but either way, I wish MS would stay away from toshiba…
July 5th, 2005 at 1:52 pm
Microshiba sounds a lot like “Microsh!t to me” What are the Japanese doing? They were doing so well but now they are sleeping with the criminals?! Sony with BMG and all that RIAA & MPAA crap. JAPanese Execs, get some balls, and don’t play with your customers, b/c it will only hurt you in the long term.
Everyone around the world is fed up with Crap movies at Expensive prices. But the question remains, Hollywood movies were ALWAYS crappy with a few exceptions (Out of the thousand(s) of moves in MAINSTREAM theatres, think how only a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a single percent is decent) —- why did they make so much money before?!
Basically, movies were crappy in the old days. But people put up with them since they had no other alternative sources. They always accepted that it “was good enough”… Exasperated by the vastness of the internet, and greater exposure to foreign movies, music and media — people now have reasonable expectations that they don’t have to put up with low quality, propagandistic, one-sided, shallow brain-washing!
The best comment I saw on TV when they were doing on-the-street interviews to why people were watching less movies was when a prominent woman of upper middle class replied:
” Why should I spend so much of my money and waste my time to watch crap?!”
I guess that says it all.