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.