Feature: Remember when format wars were about us?

Steven Speicher, by way of
Engadget, brings us a nice piece on the BluRay
<-> HD DVD format wars taking place behind the scenes. From his article:

"Laser beams, cryptography, modifiable weapons – we must be talking about war, right? Yup, well... at least a format war, and nothing gets one going in the morning like a good format war.

While the war between the two next-generation disc formats, Blu-ray and HD-DVD rages on and consumers sit in their all-too-familiar paralyzed purchasing state, the time seems right to ponder what these wars and the future of these wars mean to consumers."  Read on...