Winning the High-Dev Format War

If Sony was determined to "win" the HD Format war, they would make BlueRay a free format, no Patent Royalitites, no DRM, no Bullshit, then they could go for China as a BlurRay proponent.

Even Sony People rip DVDs,...

... and this is a good thing, if only someone would stand up and start caring about the people who by their stuff.

Consumer backlash against DRM could fire

Cool Design by Sony

Sony is innovating in the PC Space again. :-)

Great, check out the cool design of this new device:

Vaio VGX-TP1E

But obviously the name for this device sucks hard. :-(

Sony Vegas: wasted potential

In my opinion Sony Vegas is a really cool product, and could become one of the most popular video apps ever, yet it fails to live up to its potential, because of obvious lack of attention to details. Read this blog post from Eugenia for example. All these problems are not really technically difficult challenges, you just need to do two things to solve them: A) think about the problem and envision a solution, B) Implement the solution. And if you cannot come up with an solution on your own, look at other peoples software to find out what they are doing.

Cheers
-Richard

Incompatibility not a bug, but a feature

So Sony introduced same kind of "copy" protection, that fucks up several players. See the following slashdot article: New Sony DVDs Not Working In Some Players

Someone seems to be destroying Sony from the inside. Of course, this will propably wont kill Sony in the near or far future. But it makes it very hard for enthusiasts to have positive feelings towards them.

Let's think about what will happen. Example: A friend of mine regularly invites some mates and relatives for little weekend movienights. People sometimes bring their own DVDs, and he always tells everyone that he wont allow copied (some might say pirated, I wont) movies on this occasions, because they are often not played reliably, and that could spoil the evening. Hm, I leave it up to your imagination, what that would mean for Sonys crippled DVDs.

Of course it wont hurt Sony, because:
A) People don't know that this or that Sony is responsibel, because their logo is only printed very small on the DVD cases.
B) When people find out about the broken disc, they have already payed.

Btw. some people claimed that they could copy the discs easily, so "pirates" wont be hindered.

So, what could Sony do to fix themselves? Don't sell intentionally crippled DVDs.

Opening of the "Fix Sony Blog"

Hi,

this is the first post on my new blog. I thought that I might start a new blog about how Sony could improve to become a better company, or at least market their products better.
I started thinking about this lately, and wrote an entry on my regular Blog. However, this topic is so vast, that I imagined it might be nice to dedicate a complete Blog to this topic. Let's see whether this works out.

Have fun,
-Richard