____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 08 January 2008 07:08 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Monday 07 January 2008 18:46 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> PS3 Holiday Sales Total 1.2 Million
>>>>
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>>>>| Sony Corp. said Monday that PlayStation 3 game machine sales totaled 1.2
>>>>| million in North America during the key holiday season, boosting the
>>>>| strength of the company's Blu-ray video format because the PlayStation 3
>>>>| also works as a Blu-ray player.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080106/japan_sony_playstation.html?.v=4
>>>>
>>>
>>> It would seem that Sony are emerging with a highly successful sales
>>> approach. Personally, I'm not convinced that the public are all that
>>> interested in even higher definition video, they've never really been
>>> all that bothered by video, or audio, quality, in the past.
>>
>> The higher definition is for Hollywood. It helps when they can make old
>> content 'expire' (no longer be playable). They are drying people up, so to
>> speak, and people then have to go out and get some more. Same situation with
>> Microsoft Office...
>>
>
> I'm sure they'll be looking forward to reselling all that same content.
> In a shopping mall in Canada over xmas, I saw lots of blue-ray films of
> "old favourites" such as the terminator series. Why would you buy those
> /again/, I wonder?
Another industry worth accusing for this tactic is the fashion industry.
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