On January 12, 2008 at 10:40, DJSOLRAC said...
When the VHS/Betamax war was going on the consumers chose
VHS, mostly due to lower costs.
Actually consumers were choosing Beta first, VHS inevitably
won because of the Porn industry choice of VHS as their
preferred format.
So consumers chose VHS because of Porn. The Porn industry did not choose VHS because they were paid millions to do so.
Like I stated before, it will be a long uphill battle before Blu-Ray topples DVD, if ever.
Sony is tring to enter the Home Theater HD market with a gaming machine. What a joke.
Sony never ever goes the norm. They always have to invent something new they can control and own. They will control the electronics world if people keep buying their proprietary technology:
[Link: msnbc.msn.com]This article explains why Warner went with Blu-Ray, not HD DVD:
[Link: post-gazette.com]It could of went the other way just as easy as how it did go down.