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Replay: The VHS vs Betamax war is the oldest business anecdote in the book. Well, maybe not the oldest, because it happened in the seventies. Here's what really went on. Whenever a new product comes ...

Replay: The 1980's were a hotbed of format wars. How did we survive? And more importantly, did a company really try and sell us a video tape that you could turn over? Phil Rhodes starts a two part ...

Remember a few years ago when Blu-ray battled HD-DVD in the high-def DVD format war? Sony and Blu-ray ultimately won out, but there was a time when the electronics giant wasn’t as successful in ...