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Here's a list of postponed titles, first Blu-ray & then HD-DVD (...drum roll, please):

Posted by Audiophilander on December 18, 2007 at 22:31:20:
...indefinitely postponed Blu-ray...
* 1,000 Places to See Before You Die: 50 Favorite Destinations (Image)
* 50 Paintings from the Museum of Modern Art (Image)
* The Amazing World of National Geographic (Image)
* The Amityville Horror (1979) (MGM)
* Art Wolfe: Vanishing Act (Image)
* Battle of Britain (MGM)
* Bell Witch: The Movie (Big River)
* A Bridge Too Far (MGM)
* Bug (Lionsgate)
* Celine Dion: A New Day... Live in Las Vegas (Sony BMG)
* Commando (Fox)
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Sony)
* The Da Vinci Code (Sony)
* Dances with Wolves (MGM)
* Dodgeball (Fox)
* Dude, Where's My Car? (MGM)
* Gattaca (Sony)
* Glory (Sony)
* Hannibal (MGM)
* The Hoax (Buena Vista)
* I, Robot (Fox)
* Ice Age (Fox)
* Independence Day (Fox)
* Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same (Warner)
* Legends of the Fall (Sony)
* Marie Antoinette (Sony)
* Meatballs (Sony)
* The Princess Bride (MGM)
* The Professionals (Sony)
* Red Dawn (MGM)
* Ronin (MGM)
* Sense and Sensibility (Sony)
* The Silence of the Lambs (MGM)
* Starship Troopers (Sony)
* The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) (MGM)
* Tristan & Isolde (Fox)
* Turistas (Fox)
* Winged Migration (Sony)
...and now, postponed HD-DVD...
* Bell Witch: The Movie (Big River)
* Flashdance (Paramount)
* Ghost (Paramount)
* Golgo 13 (BCI)
* The Jack Ryan Collection (Paramount)
* The Jason Bourne Collection (Universal)
* Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same (Warner)
* An Officer and a Gentleman (Paramount)
* Saturday Night Fever (Paramount)
* That's the Way of the World (BCI)
So, Sherlock, what can you deduce from this imbalance? Have you figured out how many of the Blu-ray titles listed in your prior post will have scheduled release dates come and go without the actual title making an appearance on the shelves? Using your legendary logic and powers of deductive reasoning tell us how many of those movies will have their overly ambitious release dates canceled altogether. Apparently, only 10 HD-DVD titles have been postponed; it would appear that Blu-ray is having much greater problems meeting it's schedules. Food for thought.
BTW, of all the titles listed among the scheduled releases for both formats only two of the upcoming films appealed enough for me to consider rushing out and buying them: on Blu-ray, Master and Commander is quite appealing, even though I already own the standard release, and for HD-DVD, Beowulf. Unlike Master and Commander, Beowolf is on my HD must have list. So, that would be one for the red guys and a definite maybe for blu-boys. Also, until Blu-ray takes Starship Troopers off of the MIA list, I have no reason to consider purchasing a second player to perform Blu-ray functions.
Th-th-th-that's all folks!
Cheers,
AuPh