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Why did they win the Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD battle? Genuine question - I don't know the answer to this.

I can talk about Sony's strides and blunders all day, but to focus on this era, Sony was triumphant with Bluray for 2 main reasons: 

1) Sony recognized that one of the main reasons Beta failed was because while they owned the technology, the studios owned all the content and thus had the leverage. Sony & the studios also couldn't agree on a licensing arrangement around Beta royalties, whereas VHS had none of the same baggage, so cheap and abundant won out over image quality. To rectify this, Sony purchased Columbia Tristar in 1989 and would use that acquisition to be less reliant on other studios to sell future tech (in this case, Blu-ray).

Second reason in the next cast 🧵