Superior marketing- same thing happened with the competing AC Current and DC Current technology. Basically the AC companies launched a mud-slinging campaign to prove that DC was inferior.
You know how they did it? The DC Tech companies won the contract to construct the first electric chair, so the AC companies spread talk about how dangerous it was, if it could kill a man.
So AC became the standard. At least in America. I don't know if the standard is different overseas. Perhaps one of our foreign comrades can fill us in on it.
Oh, and Jester, the competing technology is called HD-DVD, which is the one I think is going to win. Unless Sony pulls a miracle out of its ass and convinces all americans to buy one.
-kv