Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
It's handy being a massive conglomerate like Sony when you happen to be backing a high definition video format like Blu-ray. True Blu-ray is more expensive than its rival HD DVD but, unlike HD DVD backer Toshiba, Sony appears to have all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle in place.
It's true that Blu-ray is more expensive than HD DVD but then again you
get a lot more storage for your money. What's more, being later to
market than its rival does not appear to have harmed the Blu-ray
format's chances of winning the two horse race.
However, the two things that Sony has that give it an edge is the
company's tie-in with the motion picture industry through Sony Pictures
and the backing of most of the other major film companies and its
market leading role in gaming industry.
At present, HD DVD backers can crow about how their platform is so much
cheaper. However, a few months from now PlayStation 3 will be released
to the market. At US$599 for a games console that includes a fully
functional Blu-ray player may sound expensive to gamers but for high
definition video buffs it will be a steal.
Right now, seven Blu-ray titles have just been released in the US by
Sony Pictures to coincide with the release of the newly launched US$999
Samsung Blu-ray player. The pressure is now on the HD DVD backers to
start matching the Blu-ray camp in the content stakes. How it pans out
over the ensuing months prior to the release of PS3 should be an
interesting battle to watch. Ever since Sony got whipped in the VCR
contest a few decades back, the company has been vying for a rematch.
That day has now arrived.
David Bass
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