I wonder if Warner Brothers is the true winner of this war since they will not have to waste any more money on a high definition DVD technology that will almost certainly be obsolete within a few years.  I’m content skipping Blu-ray altogether and waiting for digital delivery of high definition movies to fully blossom.

Most movie-oriented technophiles, however, are not willing to wait, it seems.  Apart from complaints about the visual quality of existing digital delivery formats, they want to own permanently whatever movies they pay to see.  They have the same concerns book lovers do with regard to e-books.

Problem is, no matter what happens, the Blu-ray technology will eventually be made obsolete by SOMETHING.  So, yes, they can watch their copies of “The Dark Knight” over and over again now, but not forever.

Then again, I probably have no business commenting on this since I don’t understand how these people can stand to watch most of this Hollywood garbage even once, not to mention ten or twenty times.  Normally I don’t want to watch even movies I like more than once.

Two exceptions:  “Chungking Express” and “Harold and Maude.”  I will continue to watch them repeatedly.

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