One, plain reason that Blu has all but won

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Its UNFINISHED spec.

Why can't you buy VHS anymore? Or Beta? Or laserdisc?

Because they are a finished product. There's nowhere left to go. Nothing left to tweak or enhance in terms of hardware or software to create added value for the consumer, hence a reason to continue to invest They are complete.

Now, why was HD-DVD "ready" so quickly? Because it's not new. It's the maturation of DVD, essentially nothing but DVD+....and the product itself reflected that. PQ and AQ on many titles were only marginally better than DVD and some weren't even as good, pathetic as that is. Judging by early reviews even Uni's biggest title of the year to date, American Gangster, suffers the latter fate. The extended cut only on the HD side of the combo and both versions suffering major sound and video compression problems.

Sure, the spec is finished, but what do you really have to show for it? "The look and sound of perfect?" No. The idea still floated by red fans is, "Given time we would've fixed that." How, you couldn't even consistently create good combo discs. And how many layers did you think you could glue on. Were we going to end up with a disc the size of a Big Mac?

Sure HD-DVD has internet interactivity (for those who care about that) through it's basically nothing but an internet extension.

BD is different. Is it perfected yet? Of course not. But it has already often proved itself well beyond HD-DVD in terms of what it can offer in PQ and AQ. It offers far more already than the overcompressed "HD" crap I can download (and likely will be able to for the next decade assuming storage, download, and pipe traffic issues all get solved....no simple feat on any level.)

With BD 2.0 (and perhaps beyond) how you can interact with the film will go way beyond what red offers...or ever could.

What DUDers call it's weakness is it's strength. I think it's what consumers have been seeing. What it offers already as well as it's POTENTIAL in the future.

There was nowhere for "DVD+" to go. There's nowhere for BD to go but UP.