The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware

David Dranove and Neil Gandal

Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series from Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley

Abstract: In this paper, we empirically measure the effect of the DIVX preannouncement in the DVD market. We do this by measuring the effect of potential (incompatible) competition on a network undergoing growth. We find that there are network effects in the DVD market and that the preannouncement of DIVX slowed down the adoption of DVD technology. This suggests that strategic preannouncements can indeed affect the outcome of a standards competition.

Keywords: network effects; product preannouncements; standards; vaporware (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-11-01
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4961n0hj.pdf;origin=repeccitec (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: The DVD vs. DIVX Standard War: Empirical Evidence of Vaporware (2000)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cdl:compol:qt4961n0hj

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Competition Policy Center, Working Paper Series from Competition Policy Center, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Lisa Schiff ().