There's interesting commentary in the tech blogosphere about the recent decision by Warner Bros. and Paramount to switch to Bluray DVDs exclusively (see these reports on TechCrunch and Scobleizer). The interesting thing is that while the big boys have been battling over which standard will make it as the defacto one for high definition DVDs, no one seems to care. Regular DVDs with the stretching technology that simulates high def (I use it on my huge digital flat panel TV) are darn near as good as high def at a fraction of the cost. But more important is a new technology -- streaming video. Why use a disc at all? Why not just download movies. Or, like my sister-in-law, just uses her TV provider to queue up movies on-demand and watches at leisure. This could be a "who cares?" issue.
Hmm, could this happen to some incipient industrial standards?
1:47:46 PM 
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