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What Are the Lessons of the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Battle?

Even if you don't care one bit - and this probably describes the vast majority of Americans - you have probably heard by now that a Great Format War has been fought, and apparently won. The HD-DVD format for DVDs, backed by Toshiba, has lost out to Sony's Blu-ray format. To be sure, there are some caveats. In this Computerworld article, for instance, Lucas Mearian writes that Blu-ray's victory may not be remotely as meaningful as it seems.
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