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The Last Disc

How Blu-ray Won the War but Lost the Future

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ObsoleteSony
Jun 08, 2025
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Sony has always believed that controlling the format means controlling the future. That belief drove the company to invent, to compete, and sometimes, to lose. But it is in those gambles, the successes and the failures, that Sony's identity was forged.

So when the fight for the future of media began again, Sony came prepared. The mistakes of the past were still fresh. The next home video standard would not just be a Sony format. It would be a coalition. One backed by tech giants, movie studios, and hardware makers. Everything Sony had once gotten wrong, it now set out to do right.


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