@Microsoft: The Fox and the Grapes.
About BD fate:
It all depends on wether HD TV sets will become widespread enough before broadband reaches the mjority of households. Right now HD TV is leading almost everywhere except part of metropolitan areas already reached by broadband. I checked last week and the best I could get in small towns and villages is 640kbps, absolutely not enough for HD download. And 640kbps is less than the 1Mbps I got more than 5yrs ago when I switched to ADSL.
My cottage, though, still can only have an old 56kbps line, that actually reches only 48kbps.
Now in town somebody has up to 20Mbps, but the vast majority has 2 to 7Mbps (I have 6 now, my line is old and can't reach the full 7Mbps limit of my subscription) with some quarter still stuck at 56kbps and telcos lazily working to give them 512-640kbps as from anti-digital divide law. So, if most people are lucky and most telcos aren't lazy and avaricious, in 5 years most households will have up to 7 Mbps and country will mostly have 512-640k, maybe 1M if they better long reach ADSL tech. But even 7 Mbps isn't fast enough for comfortable HD download, it's just more than fine for SD download, so in 5 years it could be DVD to be pensioned, not BD.
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