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> It was the record companies Sony is (and already was back then) a record company. They were a huge chunk of the group making the rules, and were in a much be
by ratww 5y ago
> It was the record companies
Sony is (and already was back then) a record company. They were a huge chunk of the group making the rules, and were in a much better position than any other electronics company to fight them.
- flir 5y agoThe Sony media tail was wagging the Sony hardware dog. That was the whole problem - they hamstrung their own products. End result was that they burned their own brand to the ground - there was a time when Sony hardware was cool.
- setpatchaddress 5y agoWhat's really sad is that the entire reason Sony bought the media companies was to prevent them from interfering with new Sony hardware innovations. The record companies resisted the audio CD and the studios resisted Betamax. Sony seems to have forgotten this after Akio Morita stopped running things.