A couple choice quotes from Eric Sink's foreward to In Search of Stupidity 2 by Rick Chapman:
The movie industry wants us to buy all our DVDs again so we can see them in "high definition", but they can't decide which new format they want. Either way, this comes in the nick of time, because as we all know, the central problem with DVD technology is the atrocious picture quality.
...and...
The time between the initial release of Windows XP and Windows Vista is roughly the life span of a dog, and apparently the main new feature is that it will be harder to use digital music and video content. Oh yeah, and it looks prettier.