Subj : Highly profitable
To   : Nightfox
From : Kaelon
Date : Mon Jul 11 2022 06:04 pm

 Re: "Highly profitable" Bay Street Video store n Toronto thrives
 By: Nightfox to Kaelon on Mon Jul 11 2022 11:18 am

> HD-DVD was mainly developed by Toshiba, I thought..  Microsoft just happened
> to support HD-DVD on their X-Box 360 by including the ability to play HD-DVD
> movies.

You are somewhat correct.  Toshiba was the chair of the HD-DVD Consortium, which also included 72 other companies, including Memory-Tec, NEC, Microsoft, and Sanyo.

That said, it's good that Blu-Ray won the format wars.  Sony created a superior format in every way. HD-DVD could support a maximum of 30GB of data, whereas Blu-Ray supported over 50GB.  The maximum bitrate of both formats is substantially different, as well, with HD-DVD capping out at around 29-35 Mbit/s, and Blu-Ray supporting between 40 and 53 Mbit/s.

The world is a better place because Blu-Ray won the format wars.  But optical storage is now, largely, unnecessary given the ubiquity of fiber optic home internet service.
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