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The format war between Toshiba Corp-backed HD DVD and Sony Corp’s Blu-ray, often compared to the Betamax-VHS battle in the 1980s, has slowed the development of what is expected to be a multibillion dollar high-definition DVD industry.”

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Looks like curtains for HD-DVD. Good.

I never bought into this hi-def DVD war until the format war shook itself off. I am going to still wait until HD-DVD is finally dead before I even think about buying an HDTV and a Blu-Ray DVD machine.

I was burned years ago after heavily going with Beta only to see lowly old VHS win.

Somehow we are still fighting that war with the old Mac vs. Windows thing, but thanks to Steve Jobs and the iPod, the Mac is still holding its own and gaining some market share.

The U.S. Transportation Dept. will enforce a new ban on lithium batteries aboard passenger airliners starting on January 1. That is bad news if I take more than 1 digital camera, my laptop and other devices that run on these and my spares. It’s going to significantly add to the cost of travel if our batteries are taken away and we are forced to buy new batteries at our travel destinations…. and then either abandon them or ship them back on a separate carrier.

I worked for Dave Reed for a few years in the early 1990s after our ad agency merged with his. He was a nice man and I’ve always remembered him for the story he told us about the attack on Pearl Harbor from when he was a kid on that fateful day in 1941.

I went in to the Symposium believing that the rail is an absurd waste of taxpayer dollars and will do nothing to help the needs of the 90 percent of Honolulu’s commuters who travel by car.

I went in knowing that according to Honolulu’s own Alternatives Analysis, rail will not reduce traffic congestion here one bit.

The symposium (sort of an all-day brain washing/cheerleading event) did not change my mind.”

THE $6.4+ BILLION DOLLAR RAIL PROJECT IS A WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY!