http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/ Engadget HD Comments for Little old lady suing Sony, Samsung, Nokia and everyone else for infringing on her laser patents http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/Mar 21st 2008 9:19AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/Mar 24th 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/Mar 21st 2008 10:20AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/Mar 23rd 2008 8:15PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/
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I would tend to agree with MHAithaca that when the ITC used the term "HD DVD" they meant "High Definition Digital Video Disks" in the general sense and not the specific, and dead, format. It is an accurate term, that unfortunately collides with a trademark (which is likely why Toshiba chose the name in the first place).

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"DVD" is ALSO a generic acronym for "Digital Video Disk"

The comment was in reference to the ITC's use of HD DVD, which was likely for generic "High Definition Digital Video Disk" players. Meant to encompass all High-Def digital video formats stored on [optical] disks, and not specifically the "HD DVD" format.

Thus the trademark collision I was referring to was not "HD DVD" with "DVD", but once again the ITC's generic use of "HD DVD" in the document (covering BluRay, and other formats) with the now defunct "HD DVD" format. It was an unfortunate use of the acronym, because it does collide with a trademark.

I won't even get into disk contents, as that is not what was being talked about here. The comments are in context of the article, not a general discussion on the various formats, and what they are capable of carrying. But yes, one can put anything on the disk, as it is all basically data at the lowest level. I never implied anything different.]]>Mar 23rd 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/Little Old Lady FTW!]]>Mar 29th 2008 4:35AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/03/21/little-old-lady-suing-sony-samsung-nokia-and-everyone-else-for/
The irony is that even though she holds the patents she probably still makes her grandkids program the DVR. Damned newfangled contraptions, back in my day it was all dentures and diodes.]]>Mar 29th 2008 5:43PM