This started a chain of events which resulted in HD DVD development and production being halted by Toshiba on February 16, 2008, ending the format war.

VHS would eventually win the war, and therefore succeed as the dominant home video format, lasting throughout the tape format period.

The consensus was key to avoiding a costly format war, which plagued almost every other form of entertainment media that followed roll music.

Sony's Betamax ( 1975 ) and JVC's VHS ( 1976 ) created a mass-market for VCRs and the two competing systems battled the " videotape format war ", which VHS ultimately won.

VHS has become the leading consumer format for home movies after the " videotape format war ", though its follow-ups S-VHS, W-VHS and D-VHS never caught up in popularity.

Sony, which had introduced the Betamax home videocassette tape a year earlier, became the main competitor for JVC's VHS format into the 1980s, creating the videotape format war.

** Videotape format war

In the 1950s, Time magazine reported that the numbers stations first appeared shortly after World War II and were using a format that had been used to send weather data during that war.

With the Betamax market already in sharp decline, a " format war " for the next generation of video simply did not materialize.

Towards the end of the war, the Dornier Do 335 Pfeil could have been an ideal twin-engined Zerstörer fighter design for the Luftwaffe due to its center-line-thrust format, which placed its fuselage-mounted twin engines ' propellers on opposing ends of the fuselage, and potentially allowed much better maneuverability, and did allow dramatically higher speeds ( just over 750 km / h or 465 mph ), than any other twin-piston-engined aircraft of its era, but like so many other advanced German aircraft designs that were actually produced by Germany late in the war, the Do 335 never had the chance to be produced in quantity.

Independently-owned video rental stores started opening in the late 1970s following the end of the videotape format war.

Similarly, many stores now rent Blu-ray Disc movies after the high definition optical disc format war was finished.

Betamax and VHS competed in a fierce format war, which saw VHS come out on top in most markets.

* Videotape format war

Effectively the format war has turned in SD-Card's favor.

DVD-Audio was in a format war with Super Audio CD ( SACD ), another format for delivering high-fidelity audio content.

Many potential customers compared the competition between the rival satellite companies to the format war between VHS and Betamax home video recorders and chose to wait and see which company would win outright as opposed to buying potentially obsolete equipment.

* Recording by Lotte Lehmann of " So war meine Mutter … Wär es nichts …" from Eva in MP3 format

However neither the U. S. Constitution nor the law stipulate what format a declaration of war must take.

The last-minute adoption of the hybrid DVD format was agreed to by all three companies in an effort to avoid a damaging format war, similar to that between Beta and VHS in the 1970s and 1980s.

The game was originally developed for the poorly selling, Japanese-only Nintendo 64DD, but was ported to cartridge format when the 64DD hardware was delayed.

In 2011 the station re-acquired rights to the telethon in that year's six-hour one evening format and the 2012 three-hour Show of Strength, which only requires that night's Fox network programming to be delayed to air overnight.

DAT was available as early as 1987 in Japan and Europe, but device manufacturers delayed introducing the format to the United States in the face of opposition from the recording industry.

WUSF's format was changed on September 15, 2010 ; WSMR's relaunch, also scheduled for that day was delayed due to technical issues.

The earliest of these formats, Laserdisc, was not widely adopted, but the subsequent DVD format eventually did achieve mass acceptance and replaced VHS as the preferred method of distribution after 2000.

The format was discontinued on 16 June 1999 because of the costs of introducing the format, as well as its very limited acceptance by the general public.

The format struggled to gain wide acceptance in the consumer market, and Pioneer became the chief sponsor of the format when MCA, and later Philips, withdrew their support for the format.

While this process increases the revenue potential for a useful file format, it may limit acceptance and drive the adoption of a similar, open standard instead.

This is an extension of the VHS vs. Betamax format war, but here neither format " won " widespread acceptance.

Opposition to the format and limited acceptance by the public led Circuit City to discontinue the format in 1999.

Though spoken recordings were popular in 33-1 / 3 vinyl record format for schools and libraries into the early 1970s, the beginning of the trade acceptance of this medium can be traced to the introduction of the audio cassette and, most importantly, to the prevalence of these cassette players as standard equipment ( rather than as options which older drivers did not choose ) in imported ( Japanese ) automobiles, which became very popular during the 1979 energy crisis.

The triple tag format was first devised for geolicious in November 2004, to map Delicious bookmarks, and gained wider acceptance after its adoption by Mappr and GeoBloggers to map Flickr photos.

In the last few years, 2K has been the most common format for digitally acquired major motion pictures however, as new camera systems gain acceptance, 4K is becoming more prominent ( as the 1080p format has been before ).

As audio signals may be electronically represented in either digital or analog format, signal processing may occur in either domain.

Nonetheless, printed fanzines are still produced, either out of preference for the format or to reach people who do not have convenient Web access.

* Report-generator programming languages take a description of the data format and the report to generate and from that they either generate the required report directly or they generate a program to generate the report.

A film format is a technical definition of a set of standard characteristics regarding image capture on photographic film, for either stills or filmmaking.

All multi-byte values are stored twice, in little-endian and big-endian format, either one-after-another in what the specification calls " both-endian format ", or in duplicated data structures such as the path table.

He has experimented with a vignette format in three films either released or begun around the early nineties: Mystery Train, Night on Earth, and Coffee and Cigarettes.

The transparency information inside a JNG file ( as an alpha channel ) can be saved either in lossless PNG format, or in lossy JPEG format.

The KQML message format and protocol can be used to interact with an intelligent system, either by an application program, or by another intelligent system.

Depending on the music mix, it can play either relatively recent classic country tunes from the 1970s to the 1990s ( generally more favorable to advertisers ) or can span all the way back to the 1920s, thus playing music far older than almost any other radio format available.

Many web sites that serve SVG images, such as Wikipedia, also provide the images in a raster format, either automatically by HTTP content negotiation or by allowing the user directly to choose the file.

Electromagnetic data may be stored in either an analog or digital format on a variety of media.

Gender changers are used for RS-232C ports in either the original DB-25 or the IBM AT DE-9 format.

The screenplay is an adaptation by Bridget Boland, John Hale and Richard Sokolove of the 1948 play by Maxwell Anderson ; Anderson's blank verse format was retained for only portions of the screenplay, such as Anne's soliloquy in the Tower of London, but then again, Anderson did not use blank verse throughout the play either, only in portions of it.

The current implementation of the idea gains impetus from the relative ease with which digital delivery systems can handle what would otherwise have required, in the past, either a dedicated mechanical projector or the transfer to another film format for which projectors were already available.

This container is used primarily on Windows-based computers, though Sony offers two tapeless recorders, the HDD-based HVR-DR60 and the CompactFlash-based HVR-MRC1K, for use with DV / HDV camcorders that can record in DV-AVI format either making a file-based copy of the tape or bypassing tape recording altogether.

Each round in the series follows either a sprint-or endurance-race format.

Rivest's format defines an S-expression as being either an octet-string ( a series of bytes ) or a finite list of other S-expressions.

Protocol Analyzers can also be hardware-based, either in probe format or, as is increasingly more common, combined with a disk array.

On the only episode when a contestant did not score in either Audience Match, she was given the opportunity to play a consolation question using the front-game format for $ 100 per match, and won the maximum $ 600.

Additionally, bootleg copies of the film in NTSC format, converted either from the UK PAL videotape or from a Dutch version based on the laserdisc, with subtitles made by amateurs, are widely available and have been sold in the United States at retail outlets and on online auctions with no legal action being taken by The Walt Disney Company.

DCC was never a competitor to DAT in recording studios because DAT was already established and as it was launched at the same time as Sony's Minidisc format ( which has random access and editing features ) it was not successful with consumers either.

" While the team would go on to win three Stanley Cups in its first 39 years of existence, it did so without ever having finished in first place, either in a single-or multi-division format.