What involvement does Matsushita have with Dolphin?
Matsushita, the largest consumer electronics company in the world, will develop, manufacture and supply to Nintendo a proprietary DVD disk drive for incorporation into the Dolphin. Note that a DVD disk drive does not guarantee that Dolphin will be able to play Hollywood DVD movies. The exact specifics of movie playback have not yet been determined. Also, stated Howard Lincoln, “Dolphin’s technology will be integrated into various Matsushita or Panasonic branded DVD consumer electronic products, enabling consumers to play movies and music as well as Dolphin games published by Nintendo and Nintendo’s third party publishers.” So, in essence, specific Matsushita DVD players will theoretically be able to play Dolphin software as well. However, this does not mean that the actual Dolphin console will be able to play DVD movies.
