Attention early adopters!

[CptGreedle]

I agree that I see a lot of members "freaking out" over every little thing. The HD-DVD camp seems to be even more full of this, but I think that's because they can see that their format preference is lacking and has no long term future.
I only wish the Blu-ray supporters would see this too and stop jumping to conclusions and the like over such things. It is distracting to see false reports, assumptions up the wazoo, claims of victory by CEOs, and the like.
The format war is likely to be a longer one than previous battles because so much is riding on the HD format, since it is to be the standard in home theaters in the future and could someday outsell DVDs (potentially).
Until the victor is more apparent to the average consumer; who is still bombarded with misleading news, FUD, and misinformation; we should not jump to conclusions too quickly.
Yes errors and delays are annoying, but it is a learning process for a new industry and with each delay and error, the distributors learn something new. Eventually these will stop, but until then, we will have to be wary of our purchases and not expect everything to be on-time and infallible.