Originally posted by: Zion

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.)

Yeah, I know, but the Divx "extension" still really annoyed the hell out of me. The President of the company I worked for during the whole thing picked one up because he thought it was cool. I tried to explain why it was bad, but he thought it was kind of neat. Oh well.