Microsoft and Apple's digital download war

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Maybe Toshiba can't back down.
Maybe Microsoft put money up for Toshiba to stay in the war so that they can get digital downloads to rise.
Apple has Apple tv.
So mabey these computer companies are backing the wars so that digital downloads take over.

While the war goes on they push digital downloads.

THAT SUCKS!

Check this artical out!

The arrival of DVD gave consumers far higher video quality in a new compact disc format with a variety of practical advantages over existing VHS tapes. There was no format war related to DVD because the two groups developing a new consumer video disc gave up their differences and worked together. Consumers didn’t have to chose a format or worry about obsolescence. So why did the world return to a format war with HD?


Blu-ray vs HD-DVD in Next Generation Game Consoles
A United Forum for DVD.
Sony and Philips worked together in the late 70s to develop the audio CD. Philip’s work on LaserDisc and Sony’s digital error correction encoding resulted in a huge leap forward for consumer audio that delivered high quality sound on a durable medium with instant playback.

In the early 90s, the two companies began collaborating on an inexpensive new video version, called the MultiMedia Compact Disc.

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