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JSWolf · 03-09-2008, 01:16 PM

Finally the technically superior format won the war. Go Blu-Ray!

But seriously, Why is it that 9 times out of 10 the format that' inferior seems to be the one most people prefer? For example. OGG Vorbis is way better then MP3 for lossy and yet MP3 is the one most use. I think we need to stop this nonsense about picking a standard based on anything other then how well it preforms. We lost out on a number of better formats in format wars because of stupid reasons.

03-09-2008, 01:16 PM	#63
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 74,498 Karma: 129668758 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	Finally the technically superior format won the war. Go Blu-Ray! But seriously, Why is it that 9 times out of 10 the format that' inferior seems to be the one most people prefer? For example. OGG Vorbis is way better then MP3 for lossy and yet MP3 is the one most use. I think we need to stop this nonsense about picking a standard based on anything other then how well it preforms. We lost out on a number of better formats in format wars because of stupid reasons.