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Answerman - Heads Exploding... WITH KNOWLEDGE!

A season is also 1/4 of a year so should also be that simple, but...

(and how many with FCC-approved broadband(1Mb/s)

Blu-ray entered the market on the stronger footing: Sony had enough faith in its format to make the PS3 the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market, same as it did with the PS2.

Sony was perfectly content to fight with the D00dz, which didn't help Blu's image in the early days, while X-Box was famous for the "Red Ring of Death" that pretty much insured that you would only be able to use your player for two or three years at a time.

Of course, then there's the people who more appropriately break DB and DBZ into "arcs" (or as "sagas", ignoring what that means as a narrative convention), though even Toei doesn't even know where one arc begins and another ends. People have been so cowed by the "sagas" thing, even when VHS fansubs were going around, you had people labeling tapes with "Imperfect Cell Saga" or "Gotenks Saga". Do YOU know when the Freeza arc officially begins and when it ends? Is the stuff with Raditz, Vegeta, and Nappa part of the overall Freeza arc or is it its own arc? It all depends on where you draw the lines.

Blu-ray has more content protections than HD-DVD - and ya know how big studios like content protection. The studios gradually saw that "feature" then a light-bulb lit on their heads, so they eventually realized that Blu-ray is the one that has to be backed.

And so it will be on the next format wars (if there is a next format or war). Rest assured that the format chosen will be the one with the more content protections. Studios don't care about consumers; they care more about protecting their contents. Still people will follow where the content goes; it's not like they have a choice (going to other format with nothing in it). Just ya watch.

Also, was VHS more secure than Betamax? Certainly, the MPAA attempted to stop VCR production too.

Polycell wrote:

Blu-ray entered the market on the stronger footing: Sony had enough faith in its format to make the PS3 the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market, same as it did with the PS2.

Yeah, I remember being in the film department of UC Santa Cruz during the PS3's release. I found it pretty interesting, to say the least, that these film scholars and students were buying PS3s left and right, considering the disdain much of the department usually has for video games. (Naturally, very few actually bought any games.)

That had nothing to do with security. The MPAA was arguing that off-air recording of television programs constituted copyright infringement.