Originally Posted by ReggieW

Definitely not good news for HD-DVD, but I don't buy "the public has chosen" rhetoric since most of the public is unaware that these formats even exist! Does anyone believe that the public has "chosen" when the best HD titles sell less than 100.000 copies and both formats combined comprise less than 1% of the optical market? Once there is greater market penetration and sales have increased to a point where one format appears to be stagnant, then we can say "the public has chosen." It is too pre-mature to make such a call now when titles like POTC and The Matrix Collections return the numbers they do.

I am not sure if this will cause a chain reaction. The best thing to do would be to do what competitor Net-Flix is doing - supporting both media until some kind of REAL market penetration has been achieved THEN choose a side based on their rentals.

Something else I've been meaning to get off my back:

Why do people put so much stock in CES? If any studio or CE manufacturer wants to go neutral/switch, they can obviously do it at any point of their choosing. If I recall, people were upset that Universal didn't make a huge splash at CES last year, so I wouldn't hold my breath for a big CES 08 announcment with confetti, music and other fanfare (sorry, that's just the image I get when I hear this trumpted by BD supporters).

I admit that HD-DVD will have to counter this news, and we'll see if they have anything up their sleeve (or not) in the coming days/weeks.

Meanwhile (unfortunately) the war continues.