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Originally Posted by JC
Ya 3.5" floppies and CDs really bombed for Sony.
HD DVD does 1080p, I don't know what the hell you are talking about. I liked HD DVD better so I'm a little sad. Oh well I own both so it's no big deal.
JC
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Really? Maybe it was just the cheaper players, 'cause I thought HD DVD only did 1080i.
As far as 3.5" floppies and CDs (that were primarily developed by Phillips, not Sony)... what was the competing standard they had to beat? 5.25" floppies? Cassette Tapes? There was no format war for those products. I'm not saying Sony's stuff never gets adopted, I'm just saying that when they're up against a similar new technology, they tend to lose the battle, i.e. BetaMax, Memory Stick, MiniDisc, PSP (vs. the Nintendo DS), Playstation 3 (vs. both the XBox and Wii), etc. Sony even tends to lose when they've got the better technology, probably because the other manufacturers tend to band together against Sony.
What's really the biggest dick move in all of this was last year's BS from Walmart about how they said they were adopting HD DVD right before XMas then sold a shitload of cheap HD DVD players to a bunch of people that figured Walmart's support would set HD DVD up for the win. Now Walmart's changing their mind... I guess they want to sell BluRay players to all those people too.
