I've a feeling they will win the format war....but at the expense of the console war. You simply can't win em all.

It doesn't benefit anyone for this war to last:

(1) Studio can't sell disc becoz people are not buying players.
(2) Manufacturers can't sell players coz there isn't a standard.
(3) Consumers can't enjoy hi-def becoz nobody willing to risk investing in a dud that might lose the war.

Last comment regarding XBOX360:
In videogame history, there has NEVER been an ADD-ON that doesn't comes standard with the console enjoy a mass critical success. NEVER.
So, the add-on HD-DVD is not something can turn the tide of war in HD-DVD favor. PS3 despite not lots of user buying Blue movies (), due to ignorance(believe it or not, there was a study that shows lots of people not aware of or just lack of interest), still has potential with millions of ready players once the BlueRay disc start flying off the shelves.

personally, i would prefer BlueRay, not becoz it has better quality or what, but bigger storage for the PC. With HDD getting bigger and bigger, it'll be much easier to backup my data to a bigger removable secondary storage. I'm already sick of backup my data to so many DVDs. A 50GB(supposely expandable in future to more layers for bigger storage) Blue Ray disc is a very tempting backup media for me!!!

If BlueRay can go mass market faster, it means i can afford a Blue Ray writer and discs faster...

This post has been edited by Matrix: Jan 24 2008, 05:44 PM