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Format Wars
Failures & Dead Ends
Betamax, HD-DVD, and how standards actually get chosen.
Format Wars — Betamax, HD-DVD, and how standards actually get chosen.
This entry is a stub. It will be written out in full when a Chromix article calls for it. What belongs here: what Format Wars actually did, why it mattered at the time, and what it made possible afterwards — each claim carrying its own source.
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