Sony being Sony
Nov. 26th, 2005 05:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marypcbukI was looking up PDA battery capacities for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tamaranth and I spotted that Sony measure battery capacity in watt hours rather than the usual amp hours (my last post has a link to the calculations that let you compare Sony camcorder batteries with the rest of the world), and I thought to myself "typical Sony; always breaking the standard."
Sony is the reason there are two types of FireWire connector (4 pin and 6 pin): they wanted a connection that didn't take power from a camera but it also means the camera won't charge. Sony is the reason there are both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW standards (they wanted to squeeze and extra 30MB onto the disc). In a way, the real surprise is that it's taken Sony so long to break the CD standard.
tamaranth and I spotted that Sony measure battery capacity in watt hours rather than the usual amp hours (my last post has a link to the calculations that let you compare Sony camcorder batteries with the rest of the world), and I thought to myself "typical Sony; always breaking the standard."Sony is the reason there are two types of FireWire connector (4 pin and 6 pin): they wanted a connection that didn't take power from a camera but it also means the camera won't charge. Sony is the reason there are both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW standards (they wanted to squeeze and extra 30MB onto the disc). In a way, the real surprise is that it's taken Sony so long to break the CD standard.
