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Format war - Definition and Overview |
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A format war describes competition between competing media formats, usually very costly to the format-owning parties involved. Perhaps the most famous example was the videotape format war of the late 1970s / early 1980s, between the rival VHS and Betamax Videotape formats.
Other examples include the following:
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