Did Microsoft Jump ship on HD DVD?

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Late December it was released (as I'm sure you all know) that Microsoft and Viacom inked a 500 million dollar deal for advertising and "non-exclusive" rights to viacom downloading content. (http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/19/news...07121909)sorry I didn't link it.
The content included various forms of media: ie. films, tv shows and more.
Ok. I thought that 150 Million for Paramount, a company owned by Viacom, was a lot of money to throw away, but 500 Million, and just for downloadable information.

These are my speculations: 1. Microsoft is abandoning HD DVD as the high def disc of the future. Unless they put an HD DVD burner in the 360 it benefits HD DVD none that Microsoft made the deal. 2. If it's a non-exclusive deal Paramount knows Blu is the format choice of the future, or I should rather say, that there is profit to be made in blu for Paramount.

According to sales numbers 3/4 of the market is blu. And I'm sure that all of us (that's probably 9/10 of us) use software made by the giant ape. Viacom knows that supplying 3/4 of the market with products only 1/4 "may" want is stupid. Capatalism is great. Supply and Demand is what this country is based on. The demand is blu. Start supplying it... and more of it.