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Their offer to Sony was relatively simple: You put everything about Blu-ray on the table; we’ll put everything about HD-DVD on the table; our engineers will assess the entire table, pick out what works best, and discard what doesn’t. This included Blu-ray Disc’s layer structure, and Sony rejected the proposal. The DVD Forum took this as inflexibility on the part of Sony, and both parties basically packed up their toys and went their separate ways. This was in mid- to late 2005, and no further negotiations were attempted. Both Blu-ray and HD-DVD were being prepared for a 2006 launch. Thus concludes Part 1 of this Intermittent Issues series. Check back for Part 2, where we go into the actual format war, the developments, and the resolution. Thanks for reading!
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