Article here:Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., said he and other Sony employees have been frustrated for years with management's reluctance to introduce products like Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod, mainly because the Tokyo company had music and movie units that were worried about content rights.
Now, Sony's divisions are finally beginning to work together and share a common agenda, Kutaragi said at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo.
"It's just starting," he told reporters. "We are growing up."
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Article here:Sony will give companies access to the movie and music variants of the technology so that they might produce multimedia players that support UMD, he says. The company will keep the game format to itself and thus stop other companies from developing competing gaming products.
"We have already proposed UMD disc media as an open standard for everyone," he says. "The game profile will be unique for PlayStation Portable but movie and music should be a common application for everyone."
Sony submitted UMD to an international standards organization in late December, says Yoshiko Furusawa, a spokesperson for SCEI. She wouldn't name the organization.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,a ... RSS,00.asp
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