At 3:46 PM -0500 1/20/05, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: >The old laserdisk standard was improved with digital >sound, and was quite good. But I doubt anyone is >sorry the DVD and MPEG-based TV in general were >developed. So from this perspective Bert, I take it you would consider it to be a mistake for the CE industry to introduce a non-backward compatible HD-DVD format in the next few years? By this I mean any new format for which the discs cannot be played on an existing DVD player... Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.