Best Buy Co Inc and video rental company Netflix Inc also recently signed up to the Blu-ray camp. retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced on Friday that it would abandon the HD DVD format and only stock its shelves with Blu-ray movies. Following the Tet Offensive in 1968 the North Vietnamese begin introducing conventional forces including Soviet built PT 74 amphibious tanks into their guerr. The premiere episode of GREATEST TANK BATTLES provides an in-depth account of the Gulf War’s Battle of the 73 Easting. The balance of power tipped decisively toward the Sony camp in January after Time Warner Inc’s Warner Bros studio said it would only release high-definition DVDs in Blu-ray format. Hollywood studios had initially split their allegiances between the two camps, meaning only certain films would play on any one DVD machine. Blu-ray was launched in 2003, HD DVD in 2006. Rival HD DVD, developed by Toshiba, offers slightly less storage capacity than Blu-ray but claimed it had a cheaper technology. Sony-backed Blu-ray offers about three to six times more capacity than the current standard, with the potential to offer as much as 15 times. I plan to burn the set on to DVD for myself. Separate consortia led by Toshiba and Sony have battled for years to set the standard for optical discs and compatible video equipment for next-generation DVDs, a war often compared to the Betamax-VHS video cassette standoff of the 1970s and 1980s.
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