This was my biggest miss too. The porn industry had predicted the winner in all of the previous format wars, so when it settled on HD-DVD I thought that was the end of it.
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cheeseburger@piefed.ca 1 week ago
My parents made us a Betamax household well into the mid 90s; always relegated to the small shitty section of the video rental store.
In the 2000s I wanted to avoid another format pushed by Sony, so I went with HD-DVD over Bluray… sigh. I even got the Xbox 360 external HD-DVD drive.
mangaskahn@lemmy.world 6 days ago
tehmics@lemmy.world 6 days ago
My uncle got an Xbox 360 specifically because Smallville was coming out on hddvd instead of Bluray. He could never find that hd dvd drive until the format war was over, and I ended up with the 360.