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daroamer on 24 July 2010
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joeorc said:

the data was not tracked and there was no reason to track the data. Hell even Toshiba was ready to DROP HD DVD in 2005. the only reason why was because of IHD Microsoft wanted to Slow Adoption of Blu-Ray, they Knew it was slim to no chance to make it when the main majority of Optical drive companies all decided on Blu-Ray well before 2004. Toshiba was the only Hold out and Even they were ready to throw in the towl, until Microsoft stepped in.

Blu-ray Says No to Microsoft, and Vice Versa: 2004.
HP in turn invited Microsoft to also support Blu-ray for playback under Windows, which HP would need for the Blu-ray equipped PCs it sold. According to an article by Peter Burrows in BusinessWeek, Microsoft demanded that the Blu-ray group adopt its WinCE-based iHD for developing interactive content (since renamed to HDi) in order to sign on.

Somewhat ironically, the Blu-ray group had already adopted BDj, an interactive authoring system developed by HP. BDj is based upon Sun’s Java platform. Content developed for BDj is intended to be easily adapted for delivery not just on Blu-ray disc, but also over cable systems.

The Blu-ray Disc Association “did a three month side-by-side evaluation and concluded that iHD didn’t offer enough advantages to make a switch worthwhile,” Burrows reported. “Microsoft was livid.” In September 2005, Microsoft and Intel announced their exclusive support for HD-DVD, which had already included HDi as a mandatory part of the specification.

Bill Hunt of Digital Bits explained to InternetNews that Toshiba was ready to drop HD-DVD and join Blu-ray in 2005 until an unnamed company, which Hunt believes to be Microsoft, “pressured the company to stick with HD DVD since so much time and money had been invested in it.”

“Everything I’ve been told,” Hunt said, “is a lot of people in the HD DVD camp were ready to throw in the towel in late 2005 and something kept them from doing it. Microsoft seems to be the company that is running around crowing the loudest about HD DVD.”

None of that had anything do to with SALES.  Before the PS3 was released HD-DVD players and movies were outselling Blu-ray players and movies.

Also, if everyone knew it was going to fail then why did WB, Paramount, Universal and others decide to back the HD-DVD format in 2004?   Surely they didn't have the same nefarious plans as Microsoft?

Come on, you're clutching at straws here and I don't even know what you're trying to prove.   The fact that Blu-ray burners were released in Japan in 2003 had almost zero effect on the format war.