Tispower said:
There never was a format war to begin with with DVD. At the start they agreed on a standard, and so you can't compare BD vs HD-DVD to that. The main reason that there's a format war this time, was I think because it was Toshiba, or another one of the electronics giants that had most of the rights to the DVD formay, and companies like Sony had to pay them money each time they made a DVD or DVD player, so it's understandable they don't want to pay that kinda money this time. I was thinking that at first, but the I remembered that Sony had the PS2 and Sony Pictures. So even if they paid Toshiba for their players, they more than made up for that with their games and movies. Also, Super Audio CDs? Well although they may not be mass-market, things like that are still used professionally, so are Mini-disks (mainly Jingles for Radio) and Digital-Cassette Tapes. In fact, as most people are probably aware, movies have been recored in HD for ages; that's part of the reason Beat-Max was used professionally aswell, because there were HD versions. The thing is that few people have heard of SACD, but this format war is making a lot of people aware of both HD-DVD and blu-ray. |
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