This year I received a few movies as gifts this holiday season and while I’m grateful for the gifts I did make a few observations:

1. I received two copies of the same movie, I’ll eventually pass one on to someone else but it lead me to think why I was given the media to begin with since there are better ways to give the gift of music and movie.

2. I received an iTunes gift card which will essentially allow me to purchase whatever music I want to purchase in a convenient downloadable format.

It seems to make most sense to simply download the music, movies and shows that you want than to fiddle with any type of media. I now have two bookshelves overflowing with CDs, DVDs, and Wii games and I shutter to think how adding BluRay or HD-DVDs will clutter up my space even more.

I haven’t purchased a CD in years though and most of my music I purchase from iTunes and hold it on my laptops or my iPods.  It was the initial purchase of an iPod that led to my recent purchase of my Apple Powerbook and I’ll likely be purchasing either a Mac-mini or AppleTV box to house my video media soon.   I’ll likely buy a Mac-Mini and rip all my DVDs to it and eliminate the media clutter.

I seriously doubt HD-DVD or BluRay media will matter much in the future – who needs all the clutter?