^---- It's kind of true.
Blu-ray took a lot of flak when it first released because HD-DVD had a better picture because it used a better codec.
It's tough to sell a more expensive player with an inferior picture. Blu-ray could have been dead by now if MS didn't license the VC1 codec.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
