October 26, 2000 marked the date of the current video game console war in the United States, when Sony released its Playstation 2 (PS2) home video game system. A little over a year later, Microsoft and Nintendo joined the battle for the home video game market with their consoles, bringing about one of the most exciting video game battles in nearly a decade.

It is amazing when you stop to think about how important wireless technologies are to our daily lives. Without even trying hard, I came up with a good handful of uses that we all probably take for granted:

• Garage door opener
• Keyfob for car doors
• Cordless phones
• Cell phones
• Baby monitors
• Radio-controlled cars/boats
• And all your remote controls in your house!

There can never seem to be a single standard that all electronics operate on, at least in the beginning. Looking back to the original format war between Beta and VHS, it's no wonder why people are afraid to adopt new technologies. In the Beta-VHS war, many who sided with the Beta camp lost big, especially when support for Beta dwindled as VHS took over. Keeping that tradition alive, DVD has had its fair share of conflict throughout the formats inception.