The doom of HD DVD is inevitable now.

[Dave]

With the third Blu-Ray player out - Philips (after Samsung and Panasonic) and 3 more waiting for soon release (SONY, Pioneer and Sharp) Toshiba`s player remains more and more single in the HD video players pool...

The HD DVD hopes for more studio support have been left futile and the situation now is 7 out of 8 support for Blu-Ray.
Blu-Ray movies are the same price or most of the time even cheaper, the rumors about the barely noticeable sharpness HD DVD offers are gone and the players price advantage is melting (Samsung is $600, PS3 wich can be used as a fine Blu-Ray player is $499 and has HDMI 1.3 and TrueHD sound).

The HD DVD early start brought them some 10-20 more movie titles, but Blu-Ray is catching up fast. Also the HD DVD "huge" (~30 000) sold players advantage is diminishing.

Even if all the HD DVD fanboys buy Toshiba players they will not help the format since HD DVD is underseling their players. This means that Toshiba is loosing money, and no company likes that to jump in too. The lower prices will not help Toshiba win the format war even if all budget orientated customers buy their player.


Many analysis say that Blu-Ray will come on top and none say that HD DVD will. Stores prefer to show off Blu-Ray players instead of junk looking Toshiba`s boxes.


I think that HD DVD have crossed the point of no return, where they are at its best and can`t improve any further so for them is only one way from here - down.
I dont see any hope for HD DVD to survive. Do you?