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Originally Posted by Big-Ted
As to microsoft they were one of HD DVD's supporters and spent a lot themselves on it
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Not really.
Their only spend was in the HD-DVD support for the 360. They didn't throw any money at the actual format, just their players.
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Originally Posted by Big-Ted
Not saying HD DVD wasn't better, Betamax was better, just ot the winner in the end.
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Betamax wasn't really better from a consumer standpoint though.
Sure on paper the initial picture quality of betamax was better, but that was on a 60minute tape that was pretty useless for what consumer wanted. When they reduced tape speed to allow 2 hour tapes the quality of the two was nearly identical, and the improvements to VHS meant that it actually surpassed betamax.