WIll the PS3's Blu-Ray Capabilities be overshadowed by new threat?

[johnlucas]

I always had a sneaking feeling this Blu-Ray/HD-DVD blahseeblah was much ado about nothing. I always saw some left field device that would render them irrelevant coming out of the blue somewhere, sometime.

Check the history of format wars and get an idea about how one race doesn't always mean the audience is there in the stadiums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Format_wars

And don't forget the film industry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_formats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_film_systems

John Lucas