[Westlander]

The loser will be both. Next up will be download to play over your PC wired to your home video display. CD/DVD's will become a thing of the past. Want to watch a movie? Log in, charge it for a buck or two, and enjoy.

For $1,000 buy gas for a few months.

[SauronOfMordor]

The loser will be both. Next up will be download to play over your PC wired to your home video display. CD/DVD's will become a thing of the past. Want to watch a movie? Log in, charge it for a buck or two, and enjoy.

The two disk formats are rival buggy-whip makers beating each other up, without realizing that technology has already moved on. More and more homes are wired for optical fiber

[TrueKnightGalahad]

Next up will be download to play over your PC wired to your home video display. CD/DVD's will become a thing of the past. Want to watch a movie? Log in, charge it for a buck or two, and enjoy.

High-definition movie downloads are years away. How many people would want to spend hours, using current DSL or cable speeds, to download one movie? As for people on dial-up...they'll be collecting Social Security before even one movie finishes downloading.

Bring fiber-optic cable into every house (not curb fiber, where the last stretch is delivered via coax) and HD movie downloads become feasible. You may want to wait into the next decade (and that's assuming you'll ever get fiber-optic at all - if you live outside a population center, good luck!), but for the rest of us, high-definition is here, today.