DVD format wars Minidisk or DAT?

Score one for rationality. Movie studios, consumer electronic groups, and computer firms are all signing up to one of two camps for next-generation DVD players. Yet Paramount Pictures has essentially opted out of the battle between HD DVD (High Definition DVD) or the Blu-Ray DVD and produce both types of disks. This is a good decision, because the battle is starting to resemble the War against Terror: vicious; costly; counter-productive and fought over largely irrelevant issues. The stakes are ...