Possible Illegal Use of the Blu Ray DVD, or Blu HD DVD name???

I didn't think the Official DVD forum had licensed the DVD name to $ony Blu Ray, but I see quite a few news stories touting the Blu Ray DVD format, Blu Ray HD DVD, or simply Blu DVD.

What legal ramifications might be presented against $ony for using Blu Ray and DVD in the same title???

$ony broke ranks with the DVD mainstream with their opposing Blu Ray format, and if they plan to move in and start calling it Blu DVD, or Blu HD DVD, this is blatant Copyright and Trademark Infringement.

Blu Ray may have won, but Blu Ray is nothing closer to the DVD standard other than their use of a similar 12cm Optical Disc.

Blu Ray may have won, but if they dare to use the DVD or HD DVD names without license, they should be sued and fined accordingly.

Leave it to $ony to create more public confusion over HDM formats, if they try to pass themselves off as Blu DVD or Blu Ray HD DVD, they will likely find themselves embroiled in a nasty legal battle, leaving the public to still question what HDM format is the standard, and what was supposedly defeated.

More $ony FUD to delay the clarity of a mainstream HDM format...

Why don't the Blu HD DVD's play on my HD DVD player????

They might build themselves a customer service nightmare beyond what was ever imaginable...

Why the hell would they want to call it Blu-ray DVD or Blu-ray HD DVD. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Blu-ray as a name has been trademarked for years and is printed on everything related to the technology, it's also been advertised for years as such, and there is absolutely no reason for the BDA to change the name even with HD DVD's impending exit from the market. This sounds like more BS created by you.

[Post edited by gvortex7 on Feb 18, 2008]

Links to stories saying Sony is calling the format Blu DVD or something along those lines?

Because if a reporter has it wrong and is using Blu DVD (or some such amalgamation), Sony has nothing to do with it. Thereby rendering the entire conversation moot.

Jason

It's most likely just some reporter who knows nothing about the format war, just calling it a Blu-Ray DVD.

Big deal. For years they called circular saws "skill saws" no matter who made it (Skill is a brand name) or refrigerators "frigadairs" (another brand name). Brand and trademark confusion is nothing new. Add to that some purposely deceptive advertising in today's market...an ad I saw last night "...now available on DVD and Blu Ray high def..." showing BOTH the HD DVD and BD packaging, with the BD package in front natch. You can read that two different way, either they are both hd or only the BD is. Either one is a DVD or they both are or one isn't. Duh!! Take your pick. They are confusing the public on purpose. They don't care what you call their product, as long as you buy it.

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It's most likely just some reporter who knows nothing about the format war, just calling it a Blu-Ray DVD.

DING

We have a winner...

But with all of the false press release crap and phony rumors someone is putting these terms into reporters mouths, and it is being echoed and printed.

It only adds to the confusion of the consumer HDM market, and I am sure that $ony would love to have the public confused on thinking Blu Ray DVD and/or Blu Ray HD DVD.

A general public perception of Blu being DVD, of Blu being the HD version of DVD, you have to wonder who is putting this misleading press out there to be reported, maybe more of that Project Hydra crap that supposedly doesn't exist either..

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But with all of the false press release crap and phony rumors someone is putting these terms into reporters mouths, and it is being echoed and printed.

What phony press releases? We have one from Netflix and Wal Mart and Best Buy. We had official information from Warner and had some from Paramount, too. Again, what evidence are you bringing to the table? Without it, you're one of those people spreading "phony rumors."

Jason

Even if Sony was actively trying to upsurp DVD's trademark (which I doubt) proving trademark infringement is pretty difficult. You have to prove WILLFUL intent to damage someone's trademark. Now if we saw official Blu-Ray commercials saying "Blu-Ray DVD" that would be one thing but some reporter just saying it in an article doesn't mean anything.

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Now if we saw official Blu-Ray commercials saying "Blu-Ray DVD" that would be one thing but some reporter just saying it in an article doesn't mean anything

Next time you see a commercial for an upcoming movie release on home video, listen to how they word it. They say: "own it Tuesday on DVD and Blu-ray hi-def". That's what they say. Not one commercial has ever said Blu-ray DVD.

lol, I never said there any commercials that say that. I was just speaking in a hypothetical. It would have to be something like that in order to qualify as copyright infringement.