Sony's in a 'bag of hurt' because of Blu-ray

[SvennoJ]

Zappykins said:

jacks81x said:

Zappykins said:

 

Who is everyone though?  There were more proponents for BR than there were for HD-DVD.  Companies like Panasonic, Samsung, Dolby, Disney, and WB are all members of the BDA.

Way before that.  When they were in the talks for one standard, everyone involved - was in agreement except Sony.  Sony refused to agree. 

That is news to me. Maybe Wikipedia is off the mark on this, but it no where mentions that Sony was solely responsible for the format war. It does say blu-ray was developed in 2000, and Toshiba started the competing format in 2002.

Anyway good thing blu-ray won. HD-DVD only had 15GB layers and much lower bit rate.