At long last the brutal war is over. I speak, of the Format War. The battle between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD waged on for many years and at times it seemed that HD DVD had won. Yet finally Blu-ray Disc has claimed victory and taken the title of the future media recording device.
The year was 2000, the date October 5th. Japan was holding its annual Ceatec Show near Tokyo where two companies, Sony and Pioneer, were planning to unveil the latest and greatest in technology, DVR Blue (Pettit, David.) DVR Blue was the first generation of the Blu-ray Disc. It wasn’t, however, until 2002 that Sony managed to organize nine of the world’s largest electronics companies to agree to support Blu-ray (Pettit, David.) In light of the newly formed group of Blu-ray supporters, Toshiba and NEC proposed to the DVD Forum their next generation of Optical Disc, HD DVD (Pettit, David,) and thus began the Format War. The First Prototypes of the Blu-ray Disc recorders and HD DVD recorders were......
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