Format Zealotry

[Damon Payne]

I've made some posts describing the logical reasons I went Blu-Ray including the comparatively great stuidio support. I continue to see a lot of format zealotry here while at the same time laughing at the same "Ra-ra we rule" antics from the hd-dvd fanboys.

There's still a long way to go:
1) TrueHD could have a huge negative impact on one or both formats when it launches.
2) BD has 3 months of market dominance. Does this represent an overall trend? Could be hard to say, HD-DVD was dominant for all of 2006 after all and did anyone here feel that made the war over?
3) There are still compelling (for some) features such as PiP that are not truly supported (without the double-encode hack) at all on BD, let alone with any meaningful tool support that will make studios want to use it.
4) What will the sales #s look like when Universal gets around to releasing some titles?
5) Warner (holder of MANY great franchises) must get around to catching up as promised lest they remain a "mostly hd-dvd studio" and therefore cut into the studio support advantage of BD, ergo, forcing some customers to choose between Batman and Spider Man.
6) Released on June 5th, Cars is the last blockbuster we have a release date for. Obviously to keep up the 2:1 (or higher) sales advantage we need to see release dates for BIG titles after June 5th.

Obviously the data available to us indicates strong BD sales of players and software through at least June but nothing to indicate the war is over or will be over this year.

Discuss.