1) “As we all know, HD-DVD was roundly defeated in the high definition format wars by Blu-Ray,”

Both formats had stagnant sales. Their asses were handed to them by DVD and digital distribution (Microsoft may not have HD-DVD to sell, but their Live Video Marketplace on the Xbox 360 puts both HD disc formats to shame). The real cause of the un-win was the gobbling up of studio contracts, not Blu-Ray quality or sales (which were questionable, at best).

The whole thing was a pointless hype war over formats that no one cared about and the majority of consumers couldn’t even use. The same with the cable/sat HD television provider war. The level of “THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL BUY” was upsetting. It wasn’t so much a case of the consumer driving the market as the market trying to force expensive, practically obsolete new formats down our throats.

2) Hehehe. “12 inch smuggler”.