I should probably apologize for any audio problems on my end; I couldn’t locate my usual headset in time to record the show, so this was done using a microphone of somewhat questionable quality, only because it was all I had. This probably won’t happen again.

It’s okay, Dev. I just pretended you were recording your part of the show from space.

Just a late comment to the Bluray vs digital distribution, based on your comments, Kid.

Though it may never actually happen for video, I adore Steam because of their method to controlling piracy. One logs in and authenticates. It’s possible to setup off-line play once the updates are applied, so it’s not required to be connected to the Internet to play.

The winning part, though, is the fact that, since you login to buy and play the games, if you need to reinstall your OS, you just grab steam, login, and click “install” on the games you purched, and they’re downloaded again.

That’s what I want for music and video. Go online, buy what I want, and download it when I want to watch/listen/send it to a device/burn a CD.

I loose CDs and DVDs, after all >_>

Another way would be to have “clouds” that companies, such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, provide for customers. Then, I go onto iTunes and buy some music, but I don’t download it to my Mac or PC, I send it to my cloud. Then I copy it from there to my iPod or burn it to a CD.

Again, if I need to format — no problem! My data’s really out on the Internet somewhere. Always backed up.