Well, I don't know if this is actually worth another news story. I mean, when the HD-DVD people start blasting the Blu-ray people, that is really old news. Like my Kindergarteners would say, " I'm better than you are... Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Boo, Boo". Of course then I would give them a time out and they would be friends in a few minutes.
The reason I am bringing this latest round to your attention is because the article published at IT Wire is very good reading and gets down to some of the real number differences when it comes to the feud. Rather interesting to see what the comparison is when you take out the 2,000,000 Sony Playstations and then see who is in the lead. After all, are the Playstation people really looking at Blu-ray as a technological choice, or are they just taking what Sony gave them, including the free movie. General manager of HD-DVD at Toshiba, Olivier Van Wynendaele, insists Toshiba had sold 200,000 HD-DVD players in the US, versus a paltry 30,000 true Blu-ray players. Sony is not about to give up this particular format war after losing out to nearly everyone else in the Beta vs. VHS war, especially as the Beta format was superior. That hurt for a long time.
The bottom line is that High Definition amounts to 1% of DVD player sales in the US and it is just a little bit early for Sony to be declaring that HD-DVD is dead. Funny that they both seem to miss that very real possibility that they both just might be obsolete before the real battle even begins.
