Originally posted by: lordjedi
It happened with VHS and Beta, it sort of happened with DVD and Divx (but to a much lesser extent)

For the record, Divx was not a competing format to DVD. It was basically a DVD rental gimmick Circuit City came up with to try and get people to "rent" their own DVDs every time they wanted to watch one of them. Divx discs were DVDs with special coding that made them unwatchable except on a Divx player that had the movie activated. Players played regular DVDs as well. (This also had nothing to do with the DivX video codec we all know and love.)

Looking at the technical specs, I really hope Blu-ray wins the war. It'll be so much more fun to author Blu-ray discs with the extra disc space and data transfer rate. Having to squeeze as much as possible into a 4.7 or 8 GB DVD is certainly a challenge, especially when the maximum transfer rate is 10Mbps. Being able to put 50 GB on one disc and having 54Mbps to play with could really net some incredible projects.