I really hope that HD DVD keeps fighting. The fact that Blu-Ray players have all jumped in price since the Warner announcement just shows how badly the Blu-Ray camp wants to screw the consumer. If HD DVD can still be alive going into the next Christmas holidays, then Blu-Ray manufacturers will have to drop prices to compete.

It amazes me how in just a few weeks it has gone from "this fight will last at least one more year" by most regards, to "last one out, please shut off the lights" for HD-DVD.

Surprising, to say the least. Everything just went to hell in a handbasket for Toshiba.

For a division of Toshiba, unless they invested the whole company's cash reserves in HD-DVD.

Which they surely didn't. DVD is too big for them to go completely bankrupt over a new format like this.

@insomniac17 - Whats with you and blu ray? I swear every time I've seen you on this forum, you have been talking about blu . Just saying thats all.

I think everyone is dumping HD-DVD, frankly. The situation was so precarious that most who signed with either format had a "turncoat" point on their contract should favour shift either way.
No company wants to be stuck with a dying format.

lol, I want to post here, but it looks like a lot of the posters on this thread are banned... :)

All I have to say, is don't but an HD-DVD player :p

The thing I find funny is when people say: BD is better, no HD-DVD is better...

From a technical perspective, (the quality of the movie), they are the exact same thing. Same codec’s go on both disks.

BD did not win because it was “Better”, they only won because there was more support for it. I only care that it won because I have a BD player in my PS3. If it lost though, It’s no big deal to me... it just would have meant I had to pay $100 for the player down the road.

The world does not come to an end for me regardless of who wins.

 I am a fan of blu ray, but I do talk about other stuff. I just post threads about blu ray/ HD DVD because there has been a lot of news about the two of them lately.

Here is a forum I posted on a few times, but did not start...

http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=14009 

just in case you wanted to know if I ever post anything else. 

HD DVD has better interactive features, but Blu-ray is catching up. Blu-ray has more space and can therefore can have more on the discs or better encodes.

HD DVD's scratch like DVDs and Blu-rays are unscratchable.

There are differences, and fanboys argue either way based on which one they want to win. For me, Blu-ray has always been the better format because it's technically capable of more space (in theory and current pratice) and it's unscratchable. The space issue is more of a PC backup thing (DVDs replacing CDs really helped that), and the major problem with DVDs is scratching. Far too many rentals have them and it's nice to know I can't cause them. 

Being able to watch the disc every time without worrying about it skipping is far more important to me than picture-and-picture and internet features.  So far PIP is only for commentaries and those just got added to Blu-ray anyway.  Game features are going to be added to Blu-ray, so we'll see how that goes.