Dueling Dvds ; the Next High-Tech Hassle for Consumers

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Every so often, the technology business engages in a pointless war over your dollars. Unless you're careful, your wallet could soon become a casualty in the latest battle over new DVD formats.

For years, consumers have been happily snapping up DVD players on the cheap to watch their favorite movies and television shows. But that wasn't enough for corporate America. Instead, they sent their tech guys back into their laboratories to conjure up an even more impressive DVD player. The objective, a cynic might rightly suspect, was to part Americans from more of their hard-earned dollars.

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Dueling Dvds ; the Next High-Tech Hassle for Consumers

But therein lies the problem. Two companies came up with...

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