Who has been here since the format war, and are you surprised by how heated it got?

[blujacket]

Good times.

[JJ]

Oh, man. I remember this.

I remember being in class when Paramount announced HD-DVD exclusivity right before Transformers and letting out an audible groan. Almost bought an HDDVD player later that day.

2007 was messy.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Following is an excerpt from a press release and is the reason I have supported Blu-ray only for all these years:

Tokyo Japan, February 19, 2002: Nine leading companies today announced that they have jointly established the basic specifications for a next generation large capacity optical disc video recording format called “Blu–ray Disc”. The Blu–ray Disc enables the recording, rewriting and play back of up to 27 gigabytes (GB) of data on a single sided single layer 12cm CD/DVD size disc using a 405nm blue–violet laser. The companies that established the basic specifications for the Blu–ray Disc are: Hitachi Ltd., LG Electronics Inc., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Pioneer Corporation, Royal Philips Electronics, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Thomson Multimedia.

At the time of the announcement some of us had D-VHS D-Theater but most of us knew that at some point an optical disc would replace tape. It seemed like a very long wait till Blu-ray hardware and disc were made available.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by blujacket

Good times.

Given…http://www.tomsguide.com/us/CES-2008...,news-253.html and the Warner announcement,

The most *courageous* spin control by any studio or consumer electronics senior executive (Jodi) I’ve ever heard…

CES 2008: Toshiba's response to Warner ditching HD-DVD - YouTube