Why I want HD DVD to fight back!

[ookaze]

More nonsense ...
All of this is BS, we don't need two formats, they are detrimental.
The most hardcore of early adopters had to buy TWO different players to be able to use HD media , which is more expensive.
The competition argument would make sense, if both players got the exact same movie titles. But they didn't, so there was no competition on price. The heated competition was on exclusive titles : this is when competition is not good anymore.
There's a reason people don't want format war.

Now, we don't need HD-DVD to compete againts Blu-Ray for prices to fall.
Because Blu-Ray has to compete with DVD, like LD had to compete with VHS.
And Blu-Ray just will fail like LD if it doesn't come reasonnably down on price fast enough.

People that tout for digital distribution are just as silly. Just look at Tivo's market and its price.
Tivo doesn't even come with the necessary disk space to be used as an effective DVR for HD content.
The consumer grade product to tackle digital distribution downloads would have to be better than that. And consumer grade means it won't be a console anyway, except for early adopters.
Tivo is loosing money already, despite using Linux in its boxes, so for now, I see no consumer grade VOD box which can be cheaper and better than Blu-Ray players, which already will have a tough time.
You can talk digital download perhaps 5 years from now (2012), but not before.