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Sony starts another standards war

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Re: Sony starts another standards war

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Surprised? Nope! Sony is king of the propriety format from the overpriced Memory Stick to the UMD Disc. It's all about the money; Sony hopes that by flooding the marketplace with these formats at least one will be adopted as an industry standard. This leaves Sony in sole control of it with the potential of licensing the technology to other companies, and making even more money.