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by ABFrep 5563 days ago
How short our memories are! It started with HD-DVD and Blu-Ray, and the studies 'decided' to abandon HD-DVD (and the customers that chose the format).

At that point, Blu-Ray became a joke. The new LaserDisc.

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It looks like the market for a 'next generation DVD' format is much smaller than what they expected. There wasn't place for two formats, and even the remaining format isn't doing that well.

Either that, or the DRM-related inconvenience caused them to price themselves out of the market compared to online streaming.