To be fair, there was also the HD-DVD and BluRay war, so they could be talking about two separate wars. Probably not, but that’s how I choose to interpret it.
For what it’s worth, that particular format war, the format backed by more porn studios (HD-DVD) actually lost to the one with less porn backing (Blu-ray). Personally I think that the PS3 tipped things over the edge.
Allow me to interject kind sir/madam/other, but I do believe you mean to say the VHS wars
My bad!
And Beta was the superior format, but they didn’t market it well IIRC
It was slightly before my time. It was pretty much over by the time I was using it.
It works better the way you said it, if you really want to drive the point that this will be a dead duck for sure.
To be fair, there was also the HD-DVD and BluRay war, so they could be talking about two separate wars. Probably not, but that’s how I choose to interpret it.
For what it’s worth, that particular format war, the format backed by more porn studios (HD-DVD) actually lost to the one with less porn backing (Blu-ray). Personally I think that the PS3 tipped things over the edge.
That’s too bad, porn companies generally have pretty good taste in tech. Also:
So it came down to DRM and the PS3.