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<DIV>In a message dated 5/25/04 5:44:59 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ephillip@worldnet.att.net writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial> It worked for movies since I own 2000 Beta tapes, 200 VHS tapes, and 20<BR>DVDs which will also be obsolete in a couple years.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>Yes, except the formats are (for the time being) sticking to optical... which means that they will generally be backwards-compatible. I once talked to one of the research scientists at Imation in Minnesota, who was showing me the new blue-disc technology and things like that. He mentioned that lack of backwards-compatibility has actually been a factor that discourages consumers from buying into a new format, at times hurting the company moreso than helping it with re-packaging old products. I know I've passed up the opportunity to buy some movies I enjoy on VHS in DVD, simply because there are more brand-new DVDs that aren't available in any previous format that I want.</DIV></BODY></HTML>