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Old 09-02-2010, 05:55 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by captkjaneway View Post
To be honest isn't it true of any emerging/establishing technology that there will always be 2 main formats that seem to fight til the death.....VHS v Betamax, HDDVD v BluRay. With the wealth of options available to convert books/documents if it is not obtainable in your chosen format I don't really see the ire.
Occasionally there are three main formats that fight.

You see, in major industries, they all want standards. Trouble is, each individual company wants their particular format to become the standard, and then things turn ugly.
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