Sony never ceases to amaze and amuse me. Just picture it. Sony executives look at the chaos and confusion caused by competing standards for removable memory and say: We gotta get us some o' that action! There's already SSFDC/SmartMedia, Compact Flash, SD/MMC and the weird xD camera people, but now we get to enjoy Memory Stick, Magic Gate MS, Memory Stick Duo, and now the ultimate in not-backwards-compatible Memory Stick Pro! Their tagline should be: Innovation's Evil Twin.

Gotta give the devil its due: those XBR TVs are good stuff (and I own an excellent ES-series CD player, too).