Where did all the CES HD-DUD support go?

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So I can't find the booth comparison thread here anywhere, however what I don't understand is that if HD-DUD had all of these massive amounts of supporters, be it hardcore fans, or regular fans, (willing to hack blu-ray website fans). Why wasn't the HD-DUD booth full of those people? I mean not even the rabid HD-DUD fans were anywhere near their booth. You know they are still out there, however if you read all of the pro-HD-DUD forums right now you see mostly a "darn we lost, not happy, but nothing I can do about it now" attitude. You are not seeing much of the "are you kidding? this is just a phase, HD-DUD will bring Disney over exclusive soon" kind of false gossip.

So in the end, HD-DUD not only lost regular supporters, but hardcore rabid supporters dropped support within a week, reguardless if they switched to blu-ray or if they just had blu-ray enough to just stay with SD. Either way, HD-DUD group seems to have lost their fan support ontop of WB. So is Toshiba just going to drive forward with a toothpick of a lance and hope earth's axis will shift by May with absolutely no fan support? At what point do they see the writing on the wall and "let it go".

To the Toshiba execs I say, if your pride is that powerful, then since you are a Japanese company there is this wonderful out clause called seppuku, blu-ray will be more than happy to stand over you with a katana.