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Lessons From the HD Format War

Posted by Zonk on from the don't-go-down-the-dark-path-forever-will-it-dominate dept.

mlimber writes "The New York Times' Freakonomics blog asks a panel of experts, 'Is the battle between HD-DVD and Blu-ray really over? What can we learn from it?' The panel suggests, among other things, that Sony achieved a Pyrrhic victory because high-def DVDs will be outmoded before they reap enough profits to make up for what they (and Toshiba) paid out for both product development and bribes to win the support of content providers."

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  1. Re:lesson 2 by gnick · · Score: 0, Troll

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    Simple solution: Just end the format wars for good. Merge all the large corporations into one huge conglomerate. The only risk would be that they may not have the best interest of the people at heart... Solution: Have the government run the new corporation! And, to avoid foreign influence competing with our new utopia, close all foreign trade except for raw materials. I've just fixed society! What could possibly go wrong?
    [/troll]

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