I am glad Sony is winning this fight, as BluRay is clearly the better format - especially when it comes to data storage.

Both formats deliver stunning visuals and sound. I own an HD DVD player and approximately 50 HD DVD movies, but I have nothing against Blu Ray. I may invest in the LG BH200 dual format player, which received excellent reviews, so that I can continue watching my HD DVDs and be able to expand my collection to Blu Ray. Apparently, even with the recent announcement by Warner to support Blu Ray exclusively, the HD DVD format is not going anywhere anytime soon. I would rather be able to slect any movie title and not worry about what format it is on.

I don’t like sony or most of what they stand for or there tacticts, I think toshibas HD will be around for a long time mainly becasue they have the bigest player of them all on there side Microsoft.  If it wasn’t for HD you would be still paying sonys crazy $ for players. Might sound personal but i always said sony sucks microsift rocks.

HD DVD WOES, With the recent news that Toshiba may well throw in the towel after major defections in USA, one of the worst mistakes that Toshiba made, I think, was not releasing to the mass market a HD DVD Recorder with HD ATSIC TV Tuner from the outset . In Japan they had such a model, but given how hard and dirty Sony came out fighting, Toshiba should have raised the bar and switched streight to HD DVD Recorders with North Americian/ European HD Tuners. At the end of the day, no one really wants to go thru the upgrade path “player model “to “recorder model” to “recorder with built in TV Tuner/PVR Hard Drive”. Given that I’m no fan of the greed sony has shown, I built a Media PC with VISTA O/S with Blu-ray burner, HD DVD ROM, Twin HD TV Tuners, HDMI Output....I got my “bang for my bucks” by doing this! PS: Yes I know that Sony get a royality from the Blu-ray burner but I have to live with that.