What was the appeal of HD DVD?

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I remember thinking during this format war that Blu-ray was the technically superior format, so why would anyone want HD-DVD to win. Unless they are one of the backing companies of course.

I didn't buy into Blu-ray myself until 2012 but even before that I could tell you Sony as going to win this war based just on the fact that they owned one of the major movies studio. Which was not the case during the days of Betamax.

That said, I think the war would have lasted a lot longer is Microsoft had put an HD-DVD player inside of the Xbox 360.

Every so often I come across people who have HD-DVD collections and wonder why they bought into it. If you are one of these people, what motivated you to get on that horse?