I have a hard time taking technology commentary seriously from someone like David Coursey who actually claims that the coming fight over DVD standards is like VHS vs. Beta all over again, adding that, “After all, Betamax was the better format, but it still lost.”
This immediately suggests to me that Coursey has no clue about what counts as a “better format” for a consumer device.
Coursey goes on to make a number of other blunders such as claiming that, “Microsoft has said it will support FireWire but not USB 2.0, so until Microsoft changes its mind, I’ll be in the FireWire camp.” FireWire is clearly superior to USB 2.0, but all that Microsoft has said is that it likely won’t ship USB 2.0 drivers with Windows XP (largely because of foot dragging by the companies behind USB 2.0).