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Red is the new black as Panasonic joins Sony in posting annual losses {Engadget HD}
May 19th 2009 12:39PM Com‘on!
Both US subsidiaries of Panasonic and Sony have being subsidized over the past 5-6 years directly from Japan. Both companies are suffering from huge annual losses. Matter of fact, each television that is being sold is subsidized directly from the factory with $8-30 pending up on the model.
So, each time a television set is sold – they pay on top. And still at the end of each year, a big Cheque arrives just in time at the US subsidiaries before closing the books for the Japanese fiscal year. With a press release, they announce every year over and over again, that they archived a breakeven.
So, finally the “24h Excel wizard” they are trying to pretend, admits to have made serious mistakes – respect ;-)
Poll: Have you been impressed by BD-Live? {Engadget HD}
May 18th 2009 5:16PM Hi Ben and Steve,
I was a bit disappointed, that you did not mention in your postcast no. 136, the possibilities of Pay Per View VoD streaming and downloading movies via BD-Live. We have developed some awesome BD-Live widgets that will brighten up the BD-Live technology and usage by end users. Get in contact with me. I am in L.A. (May 26 - 31) and SF (June 1-2).
THX,
Lothar
Engadget HD Podcast 135 - 05.06.2009 {Engadget HD}
May 12th 2009 3:59PM Re.: videociety
Dear Ben and Steve,
highly appreciate you guys for mentioning our VoD service videociety via BD-Live.
So, I finally made it on your webside and postcast, that is truly awesome!
Look forward in hearing from you,
Lothar
Videociety VOD service uses Blu-ray players with BD-Live {Engadget HD}
May 8th 2009 9:24AM The service is called videociety. We believe, once the name is learned and well known, people want have any trouble. A part from that, the name videociety is exactly what the service will offer the end user. Movies to watch and a community to share their passion for films! The service is truly amazing - it is just like watching a DVD.
videociety is the Next Generation streaming broadband network for all Blu-ray BD-Live
players. The Blu-ray player has become the first CE device to enter the living room to playback all disc based media (CD, DVD and Blu-ray Disc) as well as viewing pictures and listening to music via SD card or USB-stick/HDD. With videociety the perspective of
bring the non-physical video content to the living room isn‘t a dream anymore. We call that
“Unified Entertainment”.
videociety‘s extended Blu-ray Disc and BD-Live technology, jointly paves the way for Video-on-Demand and IPTV entering the living room. It transforms every Blu-ray BD-Live player into a personalized premium video archive plus a whole lot more in the future.
