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Juan: There's still something that I'm not clear on: Wasn't Sony an official member of the "DVD Forum"? If so, why didn't they submit Blu-ray to the committee for review? It just seems silly to me that the studios and hardware manufacturers would task the committee to endorse a next...

Well, I guess I was mis-informed on this. I do remember reading, though, that HD-DVD was endorsed by the committee on an 8-7 vote; so I assumed the other 7 votes went to Blu-ray ...

I just re-read some of the history of the DVD Forum's decision to go with the Toshiba HD optical system. While it may not have been formally submitted, Blu-ray was considered as a "proposal". Here's a November 2003 article from TechWeb which states that...

While I don't really care which format wins this war, (I wish there wasn't a war!) I feel compelled to point out here that Toshiba and Sony both demonstrated their next-gen HD optical disc formats to the "DVD Forum" back in 2003 and 2004. This committee was tasked by the major studios and...

Sony, just today, stated that they may have severe supply problems for their Blu-ray decks for 2006: http://www.highdefdigest.com/news/sh...,_Says_Exec/71 Since recent consumer surveys of "Heavy DVD Purchasers with HD Displays" has indicated that only about 20% were likely to upgrade to a...

My point was that the consumers decided that there was a feature available which VHS provided that Beta didn't even though most experts had stated that Beta was the superior technology. In the particular case of that format war, the more desirable feature was a longer initial recording ability...

It should forever be remembered that Betamax was initially considered to be technologically superior to VHS. Beta was first to market (by over a year); the L-500 and L-750 tapes were much more compact than VHS tape's T-120's; and the copyrighted "deep recording" ability of its head drums meant...