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Sony has signed up some friends to support its short-range radio protocol, TransferJet, as members of the new TransferJet Consortium, but has stopped short of calling the proprietary protocol a standard. The company has been demonstrating TransferJet for a few months now, pushing video between cameras and TVs as well as …

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  1. Bob

    Shocker.

    "Quite why Sony feels it necessary to create its own version is a mystery, though the cynical might suggest that the licensing schemes are the most important factor here."

    Please. It's Sony. They have a raging hardon for creating new proprietary formats. Lucky for us, most of them fail.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Joke

    Will history repeat itself?

    I'll be the PS4 supports TransferJet.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    re: Shocker.

    You mean proprietary formats like CD...

    I think Redmond/WA has put your P45 in the post...

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    Stop

    Many Sony formats don't fail

    They're only remembered for the ones that do though.

    These Sony things didn't fail...

    Compact Disc (sony/philips)

    DVD (jointly with many other vendors)

    MF2 (otherwise known as the 3.5" floppy disk)

    Minidisc (it wasn't a huge consumer success but it was a big broadcast audio success)

    The Aperture Grille CRT (Trinitron, to you and me)

    DVD+R, +RW

    Blu-Ray (well it beat HD-DVD but some might say it just hasn't failed *yet*)

    Betacam (not betamax)

    Walkman

    Transistor Radio

    etc.

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  5. Richard Lea

    Dont forget

    DAT

    Also about 70% of the TV you watch is filmed on Sony Camera's

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