Toshiba Chief: If you don’t take risks, you make no progress
by Pravin on March 3rd, 2008 in news.
One of the the closing questions in today’s Wall Street Journal interview with Toshiba president, Atsutoshi Nishida is, “Does a failure make you more risk-averse?” to which Nishida-san replies, “If you don’t take risks, you make no progress. Situations change constantly, so if we can’t change with them, then there’s no future for us.”
Asked about his unconventional decision making process among Japanese leaders, Mr. Nishida said, “I don’t operate just on logic. I’m practical but I also have enthusiasm, which is the side of me that’s not practical. If you have that in addtion to a strong will to achieve your goals, then you can overcome any adversity. For example, I used logic to rationally make the decision to quit HD DVD, but my enthusiasm allows me to move forward.”
There’s a bit more to read over in the full interview at the Wall Street Journal article if you’re interested in hearing from the Toshiba chief, including a sidebar with “5 Tips from Atsutoshi Nishida on Overcoming a Crisis.”
- Toshiba’s Plan for Life After HD DVD at the WSJ
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:57 am
We enjoyed the format, many of us still continue to enjoy it even today, and we’ve still got months and months of use left in these players. Having a positive attitude is the key to moving onwards.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:48 am
He feels confident in standard DVD and downloads, which is something that I wanted to avoid happening.
I want HD on a disc. Easily sharable, versitile, and full of extras. Not what DVD and downloads have yet to offer.
HD DVD is better than Blu-Ray, but Blu-Ray is better than DVD and downloads.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:25 am
Jason, I’m a Blu-ray advocate so I’m maybe not the right person to write in this forum but I have to say that, altough I have a different opinion of whether Blu-ray is better than HD-DVD, for the rest I fully agree with you.
I really really dislike the idea that downloads should replace HD-DVD or Blu-ray or DVD. Just like I enjoy going to my library of books, look the titles over, and choose one for the evening, I want to go to my “discoteque”, look over the titles in my shelf and choose one.
I do not want a (volatile) hard disk full of files but I want the real hard thing. If HD-DVD would have won I would have bought HD-DVD’s, period!
From a real practical point of view, it also not feasable. It would take me a week to download a HD quality movie and that is not going to change for me in neither the near nor the medium term future.
Maybe it’s a bit controversial point of view in this forum but I think that the people that just go off and say they will never buy a Blu-ray because HD-DVD is (was) better is making the entire community of movie enthusiasts a disservice. Peace people. Let’s promote HD material on disk, wether it’s HD-DVD or Blu-ray.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Toshiba knew this would happen. Microsoft and Co. have been planning it for awhile I’m sure. I’m not basing that off of Michael bay’s statements because frankly he’s an idiot. Anyway, Toshiba just signed a huge multi million dollar contract with Sandisk and I think it’s part of their plan to make movie purchases via downloads a reality. Microsoft is having success with the Xbox Live movie rental store and personally I believe that is a stepping stone for them and former HD DVD partners to work towards downloads being the future of movies.
These next 5 years will be interesting.