On a serious note - I love competition. The more the merrier. Some will survive, some will die, but it will all drive innovation.
I just hope that open standards for media are embraced as they do so. Proprietary formats (e.g., sony's media disk, Beta, Apple's .dmg format IMHO) that are locked into one vendor or one platform are, ultimately doomed to failure or to being forced to open up down the road (MS's office document formats).
Unless a new media storage format significantly improves upon current open formats, STOP, consumers don't want it!
(This has been another opinionated post by guyanonymous)
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