This is another Worm storage drive. The data storage
can never reach hard drive density or cost.

The only optical storage that has infinite read/write
like a hard drive is Colossal Storage drive.

This is another confusing format that we must contend
with as users. Investing more money in products that
look to be obsolete in a few years.

It seems to be that the HD-DVD/BluRay hype is a bit premature purely because they're both not that big a step up from the DVDs we already know and love.
Surely the big electronics companies can do better than double or triple DVD capacity. Why introduce a new format which is only a bit better than the current one?! We seem to be able to get everything we want on a single DVD disc, and there aren't many people complaining that 4.7Gb is too small, so why not wait until the capacity has reached something A LOT better than DVD? If we're not careful we'll get Blu-ray and HD-DVD and then a year or two later we'll get the much better "HD Blu-ray", or whatever, which is probably in development right now anyway. Or is it just me?!