I hate it when people do this...but Blu-Ray ftw.
If anybody really expected anything different they were just deluding themselves. Blu-Ray's sales ratio has averaged at 2:1 this year vs. HD-DVD according to the weekly Nielsen numbers. The combined factor of the PS3 and larger studio support (6 out of the 7 major movie studios) are just something HD-DVD cannot compete with, even if it does slash the sales of its players (which Sony is doing a good job of matching by releasing its $500 player which is already on shelves.)
Sorry HD-DVD. Unfortunately, unlike the war between 360/PS3/Wii, this game is much higher stakes and either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD will eventually claim all the spoils. I just see no way under any circumstances that HD-DVD can mount a comeback unless they just start giving the players away.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
