[discostu]

Enough to know they didn’t bother to learn a damn thing from previous format wars. They’re big argument is that it would be easy for manufacturers to support more than one format. Which sounds great on paper, but in practice is horse crap because supporting multiple formats is a pain and nobody wants to do it if they don’t have to. And they’ll make sure there’s one winner so they don’t have to. They even admit it in the final paragraph, right after they mention that Samsung is refusing to support multiple formats.

[TexasGator]

“Enough to know they didn’t bother to learn a damn thing from previous format wars. “

Have you ever heard of Dolby Digital?

For example, if a broadcast comes over in Dobly 5.1 it will still play on any sound system, even a mono cell phone.

If you hook up a compatible Dolby device with all the speakers you will get the enhanced sound.

You really need to read the whole article. Particularly this part:

“Advanced HDR broadcasts probably won’t require you to buy a new TV set. Instead of pigeonholing content by warring standards like the HD-DVD and Blu-ray battle, HDR is more of a spectrum of quality instead of a group of wholly incompatible mediums.”

[TexasGator]

"And they’ll make sure there’s one winner so they don’t have to. They even admit it in the final paragraph, right after they mention that Samsung is refusing to support multiple formats."

Let's look at that paragraph:

Meanwhile, Samsung — one of the biggest HDR10 proponents — seems to still be sticking exclusively with that standard even with its newly announced flagship sets, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be missing out on any HDR content.