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Re: Blu-ray wins over HD-DVD
Old 05-11-2005, 11:31 AM   #11
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Default Re: Blu-ray wins over HD-DVD

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Originally Posted by Xantar
*ahem* That doesn't say that Blu-ray won over HD-DVD. It says that the two consortiums are compromising and coming up with a merged format so that they can avoid having two next generation formats on the shelves at the same time. And that makes perfect sense. After all, last time that happened, Sony was trying to sell BetaMax.

I wonder what this means for the Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Revolution...
I guess you don't understand the meaning of the title of the article. Blu-Ray won over HD-DVD with their disc structure and format, while they are using Toshiba's HD-DVD software, and encryption.

The dispute was originally over which disc structure was to be used, and Blu-Ray came out on top giving HD-DVD the software portion of the deal.
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