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Originally Posted by tompe
It is not true that anything new is proprietary. And for VHS the cost to produce one VHS player was so high that it did not matter (if VHS now was proprietary, it was well known how it worked at least).
The damage a proprietary format does is much greater when the cost to read the format is nearly zero.
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In fairness, though, Sony appear to have done exactly the right thing with their Blu-Ray DVD; it would appear that they have "won the war".