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This blog post references my article 'Subpar Wars: High Resolution-Disc Formats Fight Each Other, Consumers' Pushback' in EDN's March 2, 2006 edition.

Here's some more reading for y'all, from my voluminous print article archive (web-hosted, subscription-free versions of some articles are unfortunately not available):

• Widescreen Review magazine has, not surprisingly, been closely following the whole red-vs-blue laser optical storage debate for some time now. Their January 2006 issue, for example, contains several excellent articles; Battle Of The Formats: HD DVD And Blu-Ray Recap, ....And Then There Were Three, and What A Difference A Year Makes?
• Check out Paul McGoldrick's column Stinkin' Standard Wars in the December issue of Broadcast Engineering magazine.....
• ....and Shane Greeinstein's column Format Wars All Over Again from the January/February 2006 issue of IEEE Micro.

And from my voluminous email and RSS archive:

• My article referenced the influence the porn industry has on the direction in which, and the pace that, the tech industry moves. Two posts on the emergence of WMV-encoded red laser porn DVDs at January's Consumer Electronics Show come from The Inquirer: HD comes on strong at AVN, and Deep Throat arrives for the XBox360. I'm not quite sure how high-def playback through the Xbox 360 is being accomplished, since the console won't (at least yet) directly play WMV-encoded DVDs, nor can you (yet) view on the Xbox 360 any content that's stored on DVDs inserted in a Media Center Edition PC. Perhaps the material is DRM-free, like the HDNet WMV-encoded red laser DVDs that I-O Data's now promoting, and it's copied to the Media Center PC's HDD prior to playback through the Xbox 360?
• The Clicker: Remember when format wars were about us?
• The Clicker: The 5 reasons why Blu-ray will win.
• High Definition DVD: Who Needs It?
• Live from CES: Forward Versatile Disc
• Blu-ray, HD DVD players: Clunky, unimpressive
• High-def DVD battle takes shape
• Will XNA tools be able to help reduce game sizes?
• Could the Playstation 3 Kill Sony?
• Switched On: All the President's Discs
• Former Apple exec calls for HD boycott (other links here and here; Evangelist's blog seems to be down at the moment),

Also, make sure to check out the references within my article, along with the remainder of this blog series at Brian's Brain.

Continued with 'Subpar Wars: Ars Technica links'....