War will be won by PS3

[Mr.Neutral]

Originally Posted by richard lichtenfelt

Paramount may allow hd-dvd to stay alive via(com) life support. The PS3 will sell more units this holiday season than hd-dvd players have sold since coming to market.
Hd-dvd exclusives; Universal, probably not for long, and Paramount.
Blu-ray exclusives; Disney, Sony, MGM, Lionsgate, and 20th Century Fox.
Blockbuster will only be renting blu-rays, and Target has stated that the only hd-dvd players that they will carry will be the Xbox 360 add-on unit, while the blu-ray players will get high exposure aisle endcaps.
Paramount can take their kiddie flicks Transformers, and Shrek 3 over to hd-dvd it doesn't bother me.

I think blu-ray does still have the advantage, but I still think its too soon to say things are over or predict any winner.

I am not so sure the PS3 will continue to have much of an affect. I think we've already seen it taper off. Just look at the past few months. Blu-ray got its 2:1 lead and its pretty much kept it since it got it. It hasn't however exceeded it by much. Overall 2:1 is where its been for awhile. During this same time, there has been a ton of positive blu-ray news. Target, Blockbuster..etc. And during all this, still 2:1. Now there's some good HD DVD news. So it just makes me wonder how things will be affected.

The rest of this year will certainly be interesting and will give us all a better indication of where things will go from here.

And just a correction to the above - Blockbuster will rent both Blu-ray's and HD DVD's online. Only new stores carrying HD titles will be blu-ray exclusive. The 250 initial test stores will still carry HD DVD.