Blu-ray vs HD-DVD

[dobyblue]

You are wrong in who is backing HD-DVD and who is backing Blu-ray.

If you look at the founding members of DVD and founding members of Blu-ray you'll see the list is almost identical.

DVD founding members.
http://www.dvdforum.org/about-mission.htm

Hitachi, Ltd.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Electronic Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics N.V.
Sony Corporation
Thomson
Time Warner Inc.
Toshiba Corporation
Victor Company of Japan, Ltd.

Blu-ray Disc Association board of directors
http://www.blu-raydisc.com/general_i...009/Index.html

Apple
Dell
HP
Hitachi
LG
Mitsubishi Electric
Panasonic (Matsushita)
Pioneer
Philips
Samsung
Sharp
Sony
Sun Microsystems
TDK
Thomson
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney
Warner Bros.

A lot of familiar names no?
That's 8 of the 10 founding members of DVD are backing Blu-ray.
Also MS are releasing Vista on DVD-ROM, not on HD-DVD-ROM. Their support of HD-DVD does little to bolster HD-DVD sales outside of the 360 add-on.