Apple tips DVD format scales in Blu-ray's favor.(Enabling Technology)(membership of Apple Computer Inc. in Blue-ray Disc Association)

Online Reporter, The, March, 2005

There's an old Arabian adage that goes, "My enemy's enemy is my friend," which is not always too wise in the world of international politics, but where a business battle over a standard is concerned, it seems to hold largely true. And the arrival this week of Apple in the Sony-Philips-Matsushita-dominated Blu-ray camp reeks of a common dislike for the other side.

Apple will, in fact, go onto the Blue-ray Disc Association board of directors, obviously a price Sony and friends were glad to pay to get Apple's endorsement.

Apple was, after all, the very first PC maker to ...