HD DVD and Blue-Ray
Maybe it should be called "Sting-Ray"

For those of you home theater enthusiasts, your movie collections are in danger of becoming obsolete. Because the movie industry has been fighting amongst themselves, driven by the almight buck of course, all of your current DVDs may become "Obseleteum Defunctum".

"Technological progress is being harmed by the motion picture industry's misguided efforts to prevent what it perceives as vast economic losses due to piracy. And the inability of competing electronic manufacturers to negotiate a compromise that would blend the best technical features of two incompatible formats into a single disc structure threatens a destructive format war."

That war being between HD DVD and Blue-Ray. I'm posting a link to a site that explains the whole story...and it's a scary one. I'd hate to think that all the money I spent buying my favorite movies was completely in vain, soon they may need to be repurchased for the new format. Especially considering I'm a queen with a great movie collection. This combined with the TOTAL control that the plastic media and the players will have to render my legal purchases unusable or my player turned into a nice paperweight is very disturbing in the least. (Ref: Issue Two of posted url) Bill Gates is a pacifist compared to these people and this industry. My next post will be on Sony and their DRM software. Your computer may already be infected!!!

http://www.dvdsite.org/faq.html#1h