Word: betamax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it was unveiled in 1992, Sony's MiniDisc seemed poised to top Betamax as its most ill-starred innovation. To American audiophiles making a costly transition from vinyl to CD, the MiniDisc posed the unwelcome prospect of another shift in music formats. Sales, not surprisingly to everyone but Sony, disappointed...
...BARKSDALE With Microsoft's browser destined for every Mac and Windows PC, is Netscape's the new Betamax...
Learning from the Betamax vs. VHS wars in the video market, DVD manufacturers have agreed to a single set of specifications. Also, many Hollywood fears of pirating have been addressed with the announcement of a uniform copyright protection standard...
...most businesses being first to market grants a lead not easily forfeited. McDonald's, Coke and Hertz debuted years before Burger King, Pepsi and Avis, and have held on. In the high-tech world, however, the opposite appears to obtain: early products such as Betamax and Macintosh were steamrollered by latecomers that waited for markets to mature and newer technologies to develop...
...synergy" between Sony's core business, producing "hardware" such as VCRS and camcorders, and Hollywood's "software" -- movies. Owning a studio, Sony thought, would help give the company the clout to set the industry standard for the next generation of digital video technology. In the early 1980s Sony's Betamax format of analog videotapes lost out to VHS, so Sony was determined not be left behind again. But Sony's strategy turned out to be a mistake when the industry agreed last year to an open standard that no single company could monopolize...