When consumers can walk into a Best Buy and see a 10 or more different models of Blu-ray players and only 1-2 HD-DVD players next to them it'll be clear which format they'll buy into. No one wants to back the next failure and AFAIK Toshiba is the only CE company with an HD-DVD prototype player. Check out this site and others for the numerous prototypes for Blu-ray players. Blu-ray is way ahead in the game with hardware support and that will go miles to help them win the war. HP & Dell, the two biggest names in computers are in Blu-ray's corner. Even Microsoft is working with Blu-ray now so there goes that potential advantage HD-DVD had.
Oh and BTW, Beta was better than VHS FWIW.
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