windbane on 07 January 2008
I'm not going to quote anyone since there were several people mentioning Sony's failed formats, and I've pointed this out plenty of times before: Sony was a huge part of the CD format and a big part of the DVD format. In the case of the DVD, they gave up their own format to contribute their tech for DVD. As for betamax, it was technically better than VHS but didn't record long enough early on for recording sports, watching porn, etc.
Sony doesn't always fail, and blu-ray isn't just Sony's format. The hatred is unecessary.
