Posted by Bill Vermillion on 08/03/07 20:00

In article <v900b3ptcbpa0ka7maj7mu6hsr4p2qfbk7@4ax.com>,
Archimedes' Lever <My Assistant: Zhang Heng> wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:01:20 GMT, Impmon <impmon@digi.mon> wrote:

>>Yeah so? Some of them will probably get burned in the end when the
>>HDDVD and Bluray war dies down in the same manner as the VHA and BETA
>>war did.

> Wrong. Both formats will be around for a long time. It will
>be NOTHING like the beta VHS war. They were recordable formats,
>and there were MANY more factors involved. The proof is how the
>"better" format actually lost.

But the 'better' format did win in the commercial marketplace with
virtually every US TV station using that format for acquisition in
the field, and with the SP series a lot of production too.

They probably made a lot more money with decent markups in the
commercial/industrial arena than they could have in the
consumer marketplace.

Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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