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[-] SnotFlickerman 43 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think it's hilarious that Sony was so scared of Bluray failing and becoming another Betamax that they basically bought out any future from under HD-DVD which probably would have been more successful (like VHS).

In the end, streaming won the day and Blurays are already a thing of the past.

To be clear, the first Blurays were coming out in June 2006, Netflix began internet streaming in January 2007, barely six months later.

Whoopsie doodles Sony you fucking idiots.

(I mean there's a lot of reason streaming sucks but fuck Sony for real.)

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Betas outlived VHSs by several years. It wasn’t Betas that caused Sony to act like that with BluRays, it was DATs.

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