• DominusOfMegadeus
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    8 months ago

    Allow me to interject kind sir/madam/other, but I do believe you mean to say the VHS wars

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          7 months ago

          It was slightly before my time. It was pretty much over by the time I was using it.

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        7 months ago

        It works better the way you said it, if you really want to drive the point that this will be a dead duck for sure.

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      7 months ago

      To be fair, there was also the HD-DVD and BluRay war, so they could be talking about two separate wars. Probably not, but that’s how I choose to interpret it.

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        7 months ago

        For what it’s worth, that particular format war, the format backed by more porn studios (HD-DVD) actually lost to the one with less porn backing (Blu-ray). Personally I think that the PS3 tipped things over the edge.

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          7 months ago

          That’s too bad, porn companies generally have pretty good taste in tech. Also:

          Disney and Fox were both impressed by the extra DRM (BD+ and region coding) that the Blu-ray Disc format provided on paper.

          So it came down to DRM and the PS3.