When the hi-def DVD dust has settled ...

It doesn't take a crystal ball to see that 2008 is set to be the year Hollywood and consumers go head to head over how we get to watch its output and what we can do with it afterwards. Discussions of the quality of the "product" itself can be left to another forum - after all, with releases like the fourth Indie Jones movie, a Smurfs flick and even a remake of Footloose to look forward to, what can we possibly add here?

As anyone who's been on this site before will know all too well, the tedious marketing antagonism that is the so-called high-definition format war has to wind up sooner or later, and we're betting - more accurately, praying - that the armistice will come this year.