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Originally Posted by jerryleejr
Look at the whole HD DVD vs Blu-Ray battle, Would it have been so hard to just adopt One format and let the war rest with the players.
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Depends on who you are. If you're a consumer, an industry standard is what you want. If the standards are still being evolved, and you're a manufacturer, you want
your of doing it anointed as the standard. You've spent a good bit on R&D to develop and implement your method, and you don't want to write off the investment. You may even have begun producing devices using your approach, to get a jump on the market. You
really don't want to eat
those costs.
I was rather grimly amused at Blu-Ray vs HD DVD. Sony was the lead proponent of the Blu-Ray format. Finally, Sony has successfully set a standard, after failing with their Betamax videotape format, and being the only one to adopt the Memory Stick format for flash expansion cards. (And even Sony is moving away from Memory Sticks to SD cards.)
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Dennis