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What is ‘format war’ related to :

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MH SET 2019 Paper 2 Sociology Question Paper (23-Jun-2019)
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Competition for market dominance

A format war is a contest between mutually incompatible technical standards that compete for the same market, such as VHS versus Betamax or Blu-ray versus HD DVD.

Each company backing a standard tries to win consumers, content providers and manufacturers so that its format becomes the industry norm and the rival format fades away.

The term has nothing to do with online games, the arrangement of troops in battle or software that counters false reports during a conflict; it describes commercial rivalry for control of a market.

Hence, Competition for market dominance.

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