Ah, Nintendo, how art thou?

[Xantar]

I don't know that Nintendo would feel much about this one way or another. This isn't going to piss off quite as many people as IGN thinks. Sure, there will be a lot of noise on the internet, but that will be seen mostly as a geek fringe group by the public at large. Not all 3 million early adopters will be pissed off, sadly enough. What they will probably do is sell their current sets and simply buy new ones because they're used to spending lots of money to have the latest and the biggest.

Of course, I personally think HDTV adoption is going to be really slow anyway, so this won't have much of an effect one way or another.

That said, this is pretty damn stupid and symptomatic of an industry in panic mode. Recently, they sent letters to Swarthmore College telling them that it's illegal to show movies in public spaces. That's right. If you have Lord of the Rings on DVD, you can't take it to a lecture hall after hours and put it up on a big projector for your friends. That's a "public viewing" which you need to get a license for.

But if you just put it on your computer screen in your dorm room, it's perfectly fine because then it's "private."