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Interesting comments from someone who gets right to the heart of the matter.

Posted by Audiophilander on January 15, 2008 at 12:32:58:
Yes, HD-DVD may be on life-support and even it's staunchest advocates will probably end up holding their virtual noses and drinking the Kool Aid eventually, but at least the format provided value and met the consumer's needs for high resolution without caveats better than Blu-ray. Just because SONY may win the war attrition (via a sucker-punch from a studio more concerned with short-term profits than long term customer satisfaction) doesn't mean that consumers will reap the rewards.
Paul Smith's comments (which I've linked below as a weighty counter-balance to Jazz Inmate's never ending napalm-pom Blu-ray advocacy & egoism):