Tenacious Defender from Ramparts, because it "Has the power... to move you"

Long live the D!

Have any of us considered why VAIO notebooks havent been recalled? Sony uses their own batteries in those notebooks.

All these companies need to seriously learn how to write drivers...

I find it surprising how an article about an ODD can be transformed into a debate about blank media. The structure that is in place at the current moment is not for BDs to mass distribute these units to the hands of the consumer. The article linked from this one clearly states that IT profs will be the one -targeted- by BD writers and media until '08, with a wider expected adoption by consumers from '08-'10.

That may be the case (based on your "stat"), but you can rest assured that Sony isn't the one that is promoting the process by creating media on which to record it.

To SumYungGuy -- If you really think that Sony was pressing BETA onto developers, then you obviously have a serious skewed view of how consumer electronics work. The consumer drives the industry. Sony owned BETA, and they refuse (still to this day) to liscence their media for uses that could produce pornography. And because a disgusting amount of human beings push for their porn, the VHS explosion began. Another thing that you can see this from is one reason the internet is so successful.

I am not going to say that the ONLY reason that things are the way they are is because of porn, but it cannot be denied that there is an incredible amount of people that drive the pronographic industry.

Sony is not, in the manner that you so blindly suggested, pushing BluRay onto anyone. The media is there and the consumer will decide. Will Jane Doe, who finally converted her VHS family archive to DVD, purchase a BluRay unit and make the conversion? Probably not. But the consumer drives the results of the Consumer Electronics industry.