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Sony has written down $977 million in its movie business, blaming a decline in physical media sales:
In a Monday statement to investors, the company attributed the "downward revision... to a lowering of previous expectations regarding the home entertainment business, mainly driven by an acceleration of market decline." [...] "The decline in the DVD and Blu-ray market was faster than we anticipated," Takashi Iida, a Sony spokesman, told Bloomberg News.
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Sony Writes Down $977 Million in its Movie Business, Blames DVD and Blu-Ray Decline
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(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @05:06PM
never forget, never forgive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sony_rootkit [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by marknmel on Wednesday February 01 2017, @06:30PM
Exactly! So sorry to hear that the kings of mediocre lost a couple of bucks.
Sony used to be cutting edge technology. Quality was second to none.
The only innovation they have been working on since the days of DVD players and mp3 players is how to DRM the shit out of it - so nobody in their right mind would even buy the goddamned thing.
For instance, I foolishly bought a Sony home theatre receiver many moons ago. The only 5.1 support it had - was to use a Sony DVD with it!!!
I won't even buy Sony headphones any more for fear they have somehow DRM'd the shit out of them too.
And the dammed millennials keep buying play stations (with yet more hardware lock in and DRM) supporting Sony's bad behaviour - fools!
I hope another ddos attack takes them out again soon.
There is nothing that can't be solved with one more layer of indirection.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @07:21PM
This is their latest trick. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia [wikipedia.org]
Small distortions in the audio to cause the player to just shut down if it is not 'authorized'. They also forced all bluray manufactures to include the detection code in their firmware.
I rip my DVDs/Bluray. If it is a sony product 50/50 it will have this on it. Luckily I do not use authorized players :)
The best thing that may happen to Sony is they divest themselves of the movie business.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 01 2017, @07:56PM
"And the dammed millennials keep buying play stations (with yet more hardware lock in and DRM) supporting Sony's bad behaviour - fools!"
What? You'd recommend Nintendo's consoles with their hardware lockin and DRM instead? Or perhaps Microsoft's consoles with their hardware lockin and DRM instead? In the world of Consoles people put up with lockin like that because it's actually expected - but the trade off being that the customers EXPECT the games to "just work" in a hassle free kind of way on their intended console. Mind you, that's not as true as it use to be since the early PS3 era prior to the mass adoption of post-release patches, DLC, and "expansion packs", but overall it will hold true.
We also use our consoles essentially just for gaming so there's usually less at risk. So long as the fools know not to give sony their credit card info, and rely on prepaid cards when needed.
I boycott Sony Music over the rootkit scandal. I've -never- purchased a CD since, even though I never did buy one of the CDs that was infected with it. I won't even buy them from used/pawn shops either - in fear that I might accidentally pick one up! When it comes to dvd/bluray, I have a couple. And I can totally see what pepole say about it, so I can't say I eagerly pick those up either.
(Score: 1) by marknmel on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:33PM
I didn't say anything about Nintendo or Microsoft either. I didn't mention Apple either.... I hate them all too.
The fact that you are so sensitive about it, likely means you are guilty of supporting those bastards that have taken our money and gave us rootkits and DRM.
For what? Expecting games to "just work"?! Ha! Just another kid drinking the Sony kool-aid.
Millennials are so sensitive....
There is nothing that can't be solved with one more layer of indirection.
(Score: 1) by i286NiNJA on Wednesday February 01 2017, @08:20PM
Yeah they never compensated me or my employer for the days of wasted labor removing their rootkit from CAD workstations and burning tables where an employee thought he'd listen to one of their legally purchased CDs. My prick boss also attempted to use the incident to get said employee fired.
Then I never managed to get my lost time install time or code off the yellow dog linux partition on my ps3 either.