Comments on: Why the Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war is a repeat of VHS vs. Betamax

By: Jonathan Schlaffer

Jonathan Schlaffer — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:35:13 +0000

Interesting, the apostrophe’s were shown in the editor and deleting and inserting them again seems to have corrected that, I don’t know why some were shown and others weren’t. The internet is a strange place.

Yes, sure, put those letters in a mailbox, that works for me. But seriously, we’re only human, mistakes have and will continue to get made. An “o” can look an awful lot like an “a” when you’ve been looking at computer monitors for 6 hours straight.

Luke, do you want a job? ;-)

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 10:12:40 +0000

Why don’t you proof read your article before posting it, it’s a bit embarrassing:

“just to clear inventory but once its gone, its gone. It’s not clear” — what happened to the apostrophe on the first two its?

“By the end of the year, HD-DVD will probably be a thing of the post.”

–so, I’ll be able to put my letters in those HD-DVD players instead of going to a mailbox?? COOL!!!

By: G

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:25:05 +0000

Too many people are forgetting this “format war” was against a content provider (SONY/COLUMBIA/TRI-STAR) against two middle men (TOSHIBA & MICROSOFT). Tos. and MS had to “lease” /pay for content for their systems, were as SONY was starting with an installed base.

HD DVD could’ve never won this “format war”.

By: Martyn Clapham

Martyn Clapham — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:10:51 +0000

It appears you may be US based as here in Europe we had 3 formats fighting.

The additional one was V2000 or Video Compact Cassette from Philips.

This had a tape cassette that could be turned over to give 4 hours per side. As the recording only used half the tape width a signal was encoded that could be tracked and the head positions adjusted on the fly by piezo crystals given virtually noiseless fast and pause speeds. ( Later taken up by VHS )

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:22:12 +0000

VHS won because JVC allowed the format to be licensed cheaply. Betamax stayed the proprietary Sony format that has doom all their media.

By: Sakura

Sakura — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:38:49 +0000

If I recall correctly, the biggest VHS backer was JVC and not Toshiba.