At last, the DVD battle between Sony and Co.'s blu-ray technology and Toshiba and Co.'s HD-DVD formate has come to an end, with the latter conceding to the more expensive blu-ray technology. The last string for Toshiba was said to be broken by the decision of a major Hollywood movie producer to support the Sony format, making the Toshiba format commercially unviable.
This development supports the argument for governments to back off or adopt a wait and see attitude towards technological battles, similar to what happened between VHS and Beta-max. Recently, it has been reported that the EU Government had considered steping into a similar battle between two available and competing technologies for allowing TV programs to be viewed in cellphones which were being offered by rival carriers in the EU market.
Hopefully, this incident in the DVD arena will show the Government that the market can decide for itself which is the better format, insulating the governemnt from any criticism of bias and from unnecessary expense at regulating a field better left to the private sector.
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