Star Wars: HD format war may result in a skip to download?

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

The Digital Bits

I highly doubt this myself. But, it's a disturbing thing to be said.

Particularly since the loudest trumpets for "The future is downloading" seem to be coming from:
A) Jeffrey Katzenberg, who proclaimed "DVD is Dead!" after he couldn't understand why we all didn't buy enough copies of Shrek 2,
and
B) Microsoft, who claim that, well, HD-DVD doesn't really matter, since "hard disk format is becoming obsolete anyway."

In other words, there are two kinds of studios who currently believe in soft-disk downloading:
Sour-grapes losers, and the industry-illiterate saps who believe them.

George Lucas originally supported DiVX, and we all remember conspiracy-theories of being the "last holdout" to DVD.
To be honest, I really don't know which to the two categories to peg him in. There may be a good case for both.