I’m with the crowd that says I’ll wait. Since the manufacturers can’t make up their minds due to the content crowd, it’s a no brainer, no sale attitude for me and many others. Far to many got caught with the Betamax loss for me to be the only one that will feel this way.

That story was a waste of ink. Size may have some relevance, but how the players look? What a load of crap.

I understand it’s a little different because non-recordable media will be produced, but the preface is the same: just create a dvd player than can play it all

The author seems used to DVD players being small. These high definition players are the newest thing and they’ll get smaller as technology progresses. Early red laser DVD players were bigger than the ones today.

If I HAD to buy one of these I’d take the ugly compatible one. You can hide it in a cabinet with doors. What good is a pretty player that doesn’t have any discs to play? It will decorate the garage then the landfill. But since nobody’s forcing me to buy these I’ll wait for their format war to end. They’ll probably come out with hybrid players that read both formats in a few years and if they don’t I’ll just have that much more money in my wallet that I didn’t spend. Their loss more than mine.