Bill Hunt's Two Cents posts about Paramount, Warner, etc.

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I keep wondering why M$ is so involved in this war. M$'s main part is the VC-1 codec, isn't it?

But then I realized that M$ could bundle Xbox with HD DVD and Transformers and will sell a boatload of them this Xmas. It still sux that M$ is so slimy with its business practices.

If it is a 3/3 split in a few days that just means the risk to either of the formats has greatly increased. This will ensure that all the folks sitting on the sidelines will remain on the sidelines.

It also means that I will become a renter of blu-ray and dvd movies instead of a purchaser of movies (70 blu-ray movies and counting in 8 months). It also means that I will not be upgrading my audio system anytime soon to one of the new HDMI 1.3 audio systems. My system is good enough for DVD now. Then once a clear winner emerges or downloading becomes the norm I may invest into the technology.

For now I'll keep my preorders for the Spiderman trilogy and Pixar movies in place and wait with anticipation to see how this thing shakes out.