How the PlayStation "buried" a new version of DVDs

Sony has almost never succeeded in making its formats a worldwide standard. In the era of cassette VCRs

producers chose VHS over the invented oneSony Betamax; in phones, memory cards are not “Sonev’s” Memory Stick, but microSD; if the format is for audio players without loss of quality, then it is not ATRAC created by Sony, but FLAC. But there was a striking exception, which we will talk about now.

February 19, 2008 officially endedThe “format war” between HD DVD (an improved multi-layer version of DVD for 720p and 1080p video formats) and Blu-ray, because Toshiba has stopped supporting the format it created (HD DVD, as you might guess).After several years of the “format war”, whenThe market simultaneously sold video players of different formats (incompatible with each other) and equally incompatible discs with films and games, one of the parties finally backed down, and the industry focused on the Blu-ray format.