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Posted by: Patrick McNamara at February 19, 2008, 6:34 pm

Topic: Toshiba to give up on HD DVD, end format war Forum: groupsrv

"really real" <reallyreal@shaw.ca> wrote in message news:KMFuj.63893$FA.38100@pd7urf2no... Quote:There have been many examples of US industries going along with a cheaper way of doing things. Isn't that why, for all these years, North American television wasn't as good as European television? The VHS victory over Betamax was, in many ways, a victory for a cheaper product. I remember the Amiga computer being outmarketed by Atari as well ( I guess I have to blame Japan for that.) Beta didn't completely loose. There are many foreign countries that adopted Beta as the standard. But Beta stuck around for a while in NA and it was possible to still find blank tapes in the stores well after Beta lost the battle. HD-DVD didn't last long enough to become a standard anywhere. LDs never dropped to the price of videotapes and as such never entered the mainstream consumer market; they were always a higher end item. In a sence, they had to compete with videotape and couldn't overcome the recording advantage of tape. I suspect people will be buying up HD-DVDs so they can sell them on E-Bay as "rare items." -- Patrick McNamara E-mail: patjmcnamara@gmail.com Webpage: http://www.geocities.com/writerpatrick Podcasts: Podcast Ping: http://podcastping.blogspot.com The Blue Hot Gossip Comedy Show: http://bluehotgossip.blogspot.com The Silent Pen: http://thesilentpen.blogspot.com

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