The Most Successful: Toshiba HD DVD or Betamax
Filed under: DVD Systems, Electronics | By: Daniel
Posted on: February 19, 2008 | 2 Comments
Toshiba’s HD DVD was launched in 2006 and early 2008 they have said they will stop making HD DVD’s and the players, that’s a defeat in less than 2 years, which shows Sony’s Blu-ray crushed HD DVD. Although Sony’s other format (Betamax) got beaten in the last format war between VHS and Betamax, although I would say Betamax was much more successful compared to HD DVD.
HD DVD lasted under two years before defeat, while Betamax launched 1975 and by 1980, it had 30% of the North American market and 25% of the UK market, but by 1984 Betamax had backing from twelve companies and VHS had over forty companies backing it. This led to Sony conceding defeat in 1988 and started making VHS recorders.
So it does look like HD DVD was very weak compared to Betamax, and I guess Toshiba will start to make Blu-ray players now.
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Wow…how about we compare how weak the Mini-Disc was to HD-DVD now.
You guys are worse than Fox News for non-news stories.
I would have thought while the Parallel Processing Corp Vs Sony patent infringment case was taking place that they would halt all production of the PS3+Blueray DVD player until the court case is setteled because if Parallel Processing Corp win big damages then Sony will go down the tubes and blueray will be no more.