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great song, perfectly matching video:

Also, I'd never heard of "Reindeer Section", but it's great (as is this video):

more Reindeer Section... it's like finding a secret stash of Snow Patrol CDs :D

Blu-ray just won. However within the article we're forced to read this drivel:

The larger question, however, is how long even the winning high-definition DVD format may survive. Some analysts say the battle between Blu-ray and HD DVD may become irrelevant as high-speed Internet and on-demand video become the pipelines of movies into the home.

"I think the fat lady just sang," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst with Enderle Group in San Jose. "This gives Blu-ray a decisive lead. The question now is whether it is too little too late."

Enderle said consumers might have moved on to digital downloads to get movies rather than wait to buy them on next-generation DVDs. The next big chance to sell high-definition movie players won't be until next Christmas, he said. "By then, it may all be moot."

Why is it always idiot "analysts" making this claim, not anyone actually involved in the industry enough to know what the fuck they're talking about? Look, fucking Google knows more than those analysts:

(25 gigabytes) / (10 Mbps) = 5.68888889 hours

That's the size of a single-layer Blu-ray disc, divided by a hypothetical broadband downstream speed. There's no way a 5.5 hour download beats going to blockbuster to pick up a disc. And 10Mbps is a very generous net connection - there's still a number of Americans without broadband internet, and most who have it would have maximum speeds well below 10Mbps. At 25GB a piece, the video provider would be hurting too - bandwidth isn't free

There's also still a total lack of explanation for how such a system would work - i.e. what device is playing these movies. We've specified "internet" video, so I'm assuming it's not the cable box - so everyone is going to go shell out for a $300-400 Apple TV in the next year?

Note: best case-scenario you assume Apple uses their uber H264 codec, encodes the same way they do their trailers, do 720p only, skip any bonus features or tracks - you're finally well under 10GB. It could be a plausible solution for some Americans in 2008. Not enough to unset the millions of PS3 owners who will soon understand their gaming system's disc format won the hi-def war, and start buying Blu-ray instead of DVD when they go to the store