i don't think it's competition, columbia's releasing the SAME discs...the only difference i've heard of is the captioning and the fact that it'll have a different logo (columbia's, not time-life's). it wouldn't surprise me if it turned out that they added the captioning because they had to to be able to put their logo on it or some such crap...it's crummy, but companies don't usually go out of their way to make a fundamental change on a disc like that just to sell a few extra copies to a section of the public that isn't very large overall. having said that, please realize i mean no offense to you or anyone else...i'm just jaded when it comes to big business, and don't expect good things from them unless there's money involved...