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A format war describes competition between competing media formats, usually very costly to the format-owning parties involved.

Perhaps the most famous example was the videotape format war of the late 1970s / early 1980s, between the rival VHS and Betamax Videotape formats.

Other examples include the following:

Recordable DVD formats, DVD+R versus DVD-R, and originally DVD-RAM
High-definition DVD formats, Blu-ray versus HD-DVD versus Enhanced Versatile Disc
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Digital audioDigital audio describes sound recording and reproduction systems which work by using a digital representation of the audio waveform. Technology overview The most common method of creating digital audio is Pulse-code modulation (PCM). PCM digital audio is data compression formats, MP3 versus Ogg Vorbis versus Advanced Audio Coding versus Windows Media Audio
Hi-fi digital audio discs: DVD-Audio versus SACD

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