How Sony Could Win the DVD Wars

business2.blogs.com: Few are willing to make the bet that’s Sony’s format for high-capacity DVDs, Blu-Ray, will win against HD-DVD. After all, when has Sony last won a standards war? Betamax, Minidiscs, Memory Stick, etc.
Paul Boutin at Slate, though, posits an interesting argument: Blu-Ray could end up holding more data, even though they will cost manufacturers more to make.
The good news is that if HD-DVD does turn out to be a low-capacity sham, Hollywood probably won’t be able to force it down our throats. DVDs aren’t just for movies anymore: Whichever disk wins out will almost certainly become the standard for new computers, game consoles, and other gadgets, just as CD and DVD drives did. It’s unlikely that computer users—or computer manufacturers—will settle for a medium that stores 30 gigs of data rather than 200 because it saves Warner Bros. a little money.
How Sony Could Win the DVD Wars [business2.blogs.com]