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Who says HDDVD is dead? (infosec.pub)
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Not me! Maybe not the best selection, there were more Warner Brothers discs, infamous for bit rot (it's real, even their regular DVDs die prematurely), I passed on those. I have a few and they are all dead.

[For those who don't know, HDDVD was the HD format that lost the format wars of the early 2000s. There are very few readers any more out there. The XBOX 360's external reader is one, the Toshiba machines are the others. I have both!]

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[โ€“] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We recently had a neighbor pass away and bought his property, including the trailer house on it.

His living room had a TV hooked up to a Zenith DIVX player.

For those who don't know, DIVX was a failed alternative DVD format launched by Circuit City that had a unique serial number on the disc and a dialup modem. It would phone home when you popped in a disc and start a 48-hoir countdown in which it could be used.

The discs cost about the same as a video rental but had no late fees. And the players could still use standard DVDs.

It was launched in June 1998 and discontinued in June 1999. Circuit city never really recovered from the failed launch.