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Originally Posted by crazyal
You lost me. The DVD forum has a steering committee that has 20 members. Each member gets equal say. The BDA was created because Sony didn't have the votes on it's side to get Blu-Ray as the next format of choice by the DVD forum (of course the facts like HD DVD would be ready sooner, Blu-Ray had to develope a protective coating, HD DVD was cheaper, etc.).
The DVD forum will do what ever they see best for the DVD format. If it means going after Blu-Ray then they will. Sony will just not vote if/ when any decisions come up. At the end of the day everyone knows that DVD still rules and Blu-Ray hasn't even made a dent. Blu-Ray may never reach DVD status, every member knows that. I don't think any member would be stupid enough to try and unseat the main patten holder to the DVD format.
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I don't know how things transpired back then, but if you look at the list of the companies on the executive committe in the DVD forum, you will find that a clear majority of those are also on the board of the BDA, so unless there was some weird rule about voting back then, or everyone suddenly became BDA friendly after Blu-Ray was launched, it's hard to see how they could not get a majority vote for Blu-Ray. My guess is that it simply wasn't ready at the time - and/or perhaps the companies behind it wasn't really that motivated to have it be part of the dvd forum.