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One piece of irony is the David and Goliath battle with Microsoft starring as David. Love them or hate their parent company, one must commend the small group of dedicated people producing something this good. But in true Microsoft tradition, is it just another case of something new (and often bloated like Office) that is overkill for Joe Public? I am not so sure, I think this time, VC-1 is the saviour of HD-DVD, allowing a lesser specced format to bat at the same level, and often exceed, that of (what on paper looks more advanced) blu-ray. Combine this with the hidden extras (like all video and audio codecs being supported and dual video decoders allowing pip) that come with *all* HD-DVD players, and looking past the main feature movie, HD-DVD offers more than blu-ray. Sorry, BR is not King; maybe President or Prime Minister - full of BS, inherently costly and not in the best interest for the majority of the public (and ironically studios).
Nicely put. Sorry I didn't get to say hello to you last night actually. Would have been nice to meet another Hitchhiker. I didn't realise Ianh64 is your good self, though obviously I was at the 4pm and you the 7pm show. That amused me actually. Save for David/Lyris who was with us as we talked with Amir between talks, everyone else for the 7pm talk filed in quietly behind him and he didn't notice until Elliot had to tap him on the shoulder to let him know it was time to do it all over again. I'm sure I am right in assuming Amir and Kevin had still lost none of their enthusiasm for discussing the same things with the second audience.

The dead Lumagen was a pity I agree. The Qualia 004 did a decent enough job considering, mind you. It was also a pity the other team did not make it over from France with the second gen player.