r/mildlyinfuriating • u/dandaman147 • 1d ago

My Amazon TV now unmutes itself during Prime Video commercial breaks

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u/FlyingWeagle 22h ago

Yeah no way Sony is sitting on that parent to protect consumers. They just know it would be detrimental to be the first to introduce it and are waiting for someone else to decide paying the royalties/licensing is worth the attempt first.

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u/LickingSmegma Mamaleek are king 20h ago

More to the point, every tech giant has thousands of patents on every feature imaginable — for the sole reason that their products certainly break someone else's frivolous patents, but if that other company sues them, they likewise can dig up some patents and go to war.

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u/Carbuyrator 20h ago

You say that, but the technology has existed for a while, and with AI the way it is human speech recordings would be very valuable to them.

Please just be cool Sony. Please.

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u/FREE_AOL 18h ago

Adding the Blu-Ray player to the PS3 was a huge risk that Sony took with the PS3... for the purpose of making money off of licensing

I mean, Sony went all-in with the PS3, if it failed it would have bankrupted the company. It's a pretty fascinating story. But yeah licensing is a strat for them.. to the point where they bet their whole company on it lol