Posted by asj on 01/15/04 11:44

Blu-ray is going for the capacity angle...if you look at ads for it, it
says "5x more capacity than today's DVD!"


rjn wrote:
> Bill Vermillion wrote: >
>
> > It really was a war of longer recording time, and
> > each time VHS beat Sony.
>
> Whatever the Beta v. VHS war was, or wasn't, it may
> not be the appropriate analogy.
>
> HD-DVD v. BR may be more like CED v. LaserDisc,
> with a DIVX frosting to sour the tast.
>
> LD "won", but what it won was the videophile market (1%).
> Barely enough for life support.
>
> And the total failure of DIVX proved that DRM alone
> can be a fatal feature.
>
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