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Originally Posted by blu-ballz
it was audio casette vs. CD definately
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That wasn't really a "war." CD was designed to replace the LP... not the cassette. Audio cassettes were always primarily designed as a recordable medium... not one people really saw as the primary record-label release format.
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Originally Posted by stockstar1138
none of those are really ever got as big as blu-ray will though.
to most consumers those products were pretty off the radar except +/- which everything is combo now, so it doesn't matter.
if you ask consumers in 10 years about format wars. vhs/betamax will be mentioned and blu-ray/hd dvd will be mentioned, thats it for 90% of the population.
i had never even heard of SACD til i got a ps3.
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Well, we can certainly hope Blu-ray ends up being far bigger than any of those other formats, but at this point that's not guaranteed. (I assume you were ignoring the SD vs. MMCD = DVD example, as DVD is the most popular consumer format in history.)
As for being "off the radar," while many people never got involved in the SA-CD vs. DVD-A format war... many people have a DVD player capable of playing one or both formats. This was actually one of the problems with HD DVD's concept of hybrid titles. Even though everyone can play the CD layer of an SA-CD hybrid... and MANY people can even play the SA-CD layer on their DVD player... very few people were willing to pay the additional price for the SA-CD hybrid discs. Same was always bound to be true of HD DVD/DVD hybrid discs.