The sad thing is the people hurt most buy the 'HD DVD /Blu ray War' were not the big guys, but the smaller companies that actually made the disk and movies. Some waited to upgrade, some went with HD DVD as they could fairly easily upgrade their equipment, while Blu-ray required a whole extra very expensive upgrade. There sales started to stall because of the, completely unnecessary, format war.
Sony tried really hard to corner the market, and it worked, they won the 'blu-ray war', but ultimately they sped up the loss to digital distribution. The people and companies that made the DVD's (and then blu-rays) are getting lost in this too.
Again, consumers lose with companies act only for their own self interest.







