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Apple is halting its next high-end Vision in favor of something cheaper (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by jeffw to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Allow me to interject kind sir/madam/other, but I do believe you mean to say the VHS wars

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

My bad!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

And Beta was the superior format, but they didn't market it well IIRC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It was slightly before my time. It was pretty much over by the time I was using it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

That's too bad, porn companies generally have pretty good taste in tech. Also:

Disney and Fox were both impressed by the extra DRM (BD+ and region coding) that the Blu-ray Disc format provided on paper.

So it came down to DRM and the PS3.