All this was complicated by the discovery that certain DVD drives in computers could not read certain CD-recordable disks. Then DiVx entered the home market, as a fancy scheme to make DVD rentals unplayable after 48 hours so people would not have to return them. Promoters of DVD say HDTV will not make DVD obsolete. But this makes no sense unless the public rejects HDTV outright. What they are really saying is that DVD will hang in there during the transition to HDTV and eventually die a slow death.
Computer users tolerate bickering and changing standards better than consumers.
If PC users had gottenthe technology exclusively for a few years, consumer demand would have built slowly, resulting in a flood of interest this Christmas. Instead, there's only a trickle. While efforts such as the Austin Powers movie will make DVD popular someday, the current roadblocks make this one of the biggest fiascoes since RCA SelectaVision. Find out how.