Barry Willis

<A HREF="http://www.ce.org">Consumer Electronics Association</A> (CEA) president Gary Shapiro has pronounced 2003 as "the beginning of the end" for the transition from analog television to its digital successor.

No one who's ventured into a computer store recently could have failed to note the amount of space devoted to video capture and editing technology. Most of it is being marketed to amateur videomakers and would-be cinematographers, but there's an obvious implication that the next step is bit-for-bit copying of commercial DVDs.

Digital television is proving to be a huge boon to the Korean electronics industry.

Blockbuster, Inc. has won again, in something of a replay of last July's <A HREF="http://www.guidetohometheater.com/shownews.cgi?1330">dismissal</A> of an antitrust suit brought against the company in San Antonio, TX.