The PC industry is champing at the bit to provide downloaded movies that might compete with DVD sales, and Pay-TV services want to add movies to their video-on-demand services, to their new disk-drive-equipped set-top boxes, and to their emerging high-definition TV services.

The migration to next-generation High Definition optical disc formats is not going smoothly. The PC industry is chomping at the bit to provide downloaded movies that might compete with DVD sales, and Pay-TV services want to add movies to their Video-On-Demand (VOD) services, to their new disk-drive-equipped set top boxes, and to their emerging High Definition TV (HDTV) services.

When my wife is watching 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy' she often wants more information on things Thom (the show's 'Design Doctor') has been doing to an apartment,

The migration to next-generation high-definition optical disc formats is not going smoothly.

Over the next two years, the guys making the technology are probably going to have a market. It won't be a lot of money, but there will be a market.

It's very smart marketing,