I’m always fascinated with how far technology will go to make people less and less social. Yet as far away from each other as we get, with our home entertainment and our personal computers, we keep wanting to be interactive, though on a much more artificial level.
That’s why we need this new special feature on the HD DVD for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Thanks to the ethernet capability of HD DVD players, you can now watch the movie at home while your friends watch it in-synch with you via their own HD DVD players. And I guess you can chat with them through your remote control. Or you can talk on a party line like we did when I was in high school and jointly watching MTV with my friends.
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