format war

Most people who either grew up in the 80’s or have taken a business class has heard about the Format Wars. For those that don’t, the Format Wars were between the Sony Betamax tape and VHS. VHS won out while Betamax tended to fade away. But I ask you, What if they were reversed? What if VHS faded...

When it comes to early home video, LaserDisc comes to mind for almost everyone. We all have fond memories of going out to buy or rent the newest movies on those large Vinyl-sized movies, which were just pretty to look at, both the movie quality and the shiny golden discs themselves, and flipping...

I think the general consensus was that HD-DVD lost the Format War because Blu-Ray had the backing of huge studios like Sony, Walt Disney, and 20th Century Fox. That they liked the extra DRM features, the region blocking, the higher picture quality (but then again most don't notice), and so on...