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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...latter party,along with several other major studios,claimed that Betamax’s recording technologyviolated copyright laws. The SupremeCourt ruled in favor of legal homerecording, setting an important precedentthat helps protect more moderntechnologies like digital video recording.VHS is dead now, though, and its opticalreplacement, the DVD, lies on thedoorstep of electronic obscurity thanksto the rise of high-defi nition video formats.Sony’s Blu-ray DVD and Toshiba’sHD-DVD formats recently waged a battleto inherit the home theater.Sony announced in January 2007 thatit would prohibit U.S. adult fi lms frombeing distributed...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Costs and Benefits of the High-Def War | 3/13/2008 | See Source »

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