08-28-2006, 10:00 PM
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REWIND to 1996 and the DVD Format War
Twice.com found eerie parallels between our current format war and what was happening in 1996:
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...things in 1996 sounded hauntingly familiar. For starters, the world was bracing for the arrival of a new high-density optical video disc format called Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), depending on which member of the two originally opposing format camps you were talking to. Surprise, surprise — these camps included the Super Density (SD) Disc camp spearheaded by Toshiba, Warner Brothers, Thomson and others, and the Multi Media CD (MMC) camp, championed by Sony, Philips and others.
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The Full Monty
It's inevitable that we continue repeating this process. I wonder, however, how the "format wars" will change once we permanently move to digital storage on our Living Room Hard Drive.
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