Blu-ray and SONY, they both suck!

Sorry but I can not recommend a Sony product or technology (besides the CD).

Sony makes it really annoying to use their products.

• From proprietary connections for speakers in devices (stereos) that make it hard to replace components (speakers) when they fail. Let be generous and say that the speaker lasted as long as the stereo, make sure not to break (read accidentally step on) one of those adapters while moving the stereo. Good luck finding a replacement, better buy a NEW (make sure it's not SONY) stereo!
• Movie (DVD's) with impossible to skip trailers that take about 5 minutes to get through. Look and Transformers (NOT A SONY company) there were no trailers if you just press skip once, you won't see that from SONY.
• Digital Media Players (not mp3 mind you) that only play files encoded with Sony's proprietary software to a "ATRAC" file format, forcing you to buy Digital music from them or to rip all you CD's to that format (even if you already had them in MP3). Good thing no one liked it and now Sony had to abandon it after August of 2007, Sony's own music store does no support any version of the ATRAC formats.
• To the mother of all mistakes. SONY BMG publishing CD with a (wait for it) proprietary copy protection system called "Extended Copy Protection" that made the computers of those who paid for a CD vulnerable to attacks, from almost anyone. The software would install itself into the "costumer's" computer the moment the drive closed, never mind asking if this was ok? with the owner. Once installed it tracked what you listen to and limited the amount of copies one could make of it's CD's. Oh, by the way it also created a large set of security issues that forced SONY into legal battles and finally to pull those CD's from the market. Of course by that time many systems have already been compromised and are likely still affected and spreading viruses and other malware.

To me the Blu-ray format it another push by a company that only cares about making a profit without considering what it's consumers REALLY want. Like hiking up the price of the PS3 because they wanted to push the Blu-ray into the GAMING SYSTEM. Serves them right that Nintendo is eating their lunch by making a REAL gaming system, that does nothing else, but play games and is affordable.

GO HD-DVD!!