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Old 02-19-2008, 11:07 AM   #281
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Originally Posted by The Yen Man View Post
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought Sony was part of the consortium that created CD and DVD, so they've been making money with formats since then. It was only their proprietary stuff like MD and Beta that failed.
Phillips is credited with creating the CD, although Sony did have some of their error checking technology included in the spec.

DVD was a Toshiba technology - Sony was backing a different standard.
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