Posted by Allan on 04/10/06 12:40

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-ed-hddvd10apr10,1,7088547.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california&ctrack=1&cset=true

"IF THEY WANT A GLIMPSE OF THEIR own future, Hollywood executives
should take a peek at the latest year-end report from the Recording
Industry Assn. of America. It's not a pretty picture. There, amid the
statistics about declining CD sales and booming music downloads, are
the grim numbers for the higher-fidelity formats once billed as the
music industry's Next Big Thing. Their sluggish performance suggests
what could happen to the two competing high-definition video formats
that Hollywood will soon try to sell, HD-DVD and Blu-ray."






"Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game
because they almost always turn out to be -- or to be indistinguishable from
-- self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time."
- Neil Stephenson, _Cryptonomicon_

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