I always laughed at "Blu-ray is Sony" statements coming from HD-DVD fans over the sheer hypocrisy present in that stance. More companies than merely Sony developed Blu-ray. Matsushita (parent of Panasonic) threw a lot of money into BD R&D. A multitude of electronics companies supported Blu-ray, not just Sony. On the other hand, Toshiba was nearly alone when it came to developing the HD-DVD format and manufacturing HD-DVD players.
It would be tempting to call HD-DVD the "Beta" format of this last format war. But that would be incorrect. In VHS versus Beta the more crappy format won (in a large part over Sony being the only one putting out consumer Beta gear). With the Blu-ray versus HD-DVD battle the better format won which also happened to be the format with the most manufacturers supporting it.
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