A lot of people are that sour about the whole backing a losing horse issue with HD DVD. Most of them felt that it was the better format due to the cheaper overall price and full set of features (admittedly, most of which were very gimmicky) that have yet to be fully implemented in BR-D.
So sure, the natural response for some of those will be "I'm taking my marbles and going home."
Well, in all likelihood, there will be no future optical disc storage media format. BR-D and HD DVD will most likely be the last. Assuming a life cycle on par with DVD (ten years), BR-D will eventually be supplemented by HD downloads once the data infrastructure is robust enough to handle the bandwidth. In ten years, solid state memory should have developed enough in terms of storage to cost ratio that moving drive based media (optical or magnetic) will no longer be a necessity.
But to say that you'll "hold off" on HD media until this happens? Keep waiting. And waiting. And waiting. Those that have HD entertainment set ups are going to want their HD content today. And once players and the media become cheap enough, no one will think twice about buying them when there's only one format.
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