Paramount dont mind. They were allways planning to drop HD-DVD the only reason they are staying with it for the present is to reap 180million payout deal with toshiba to try to keep the format alive for a few more months. Paramount will stick the deal to the very end to reap 180Mil from toshiba then Drop HD-DVD faster than you can blink and go Blu-ray so they can actually make some profit from selling disks for a change.
Toshibas secret 180million deal has made paramount a nice profit while toshiba get to suffer the loss of both the HD-DVD format and 180Million in bribes for Paramount to temporarilly drop blu-ray. This self administered punishment may hopefully teach them a lesson in better business ethics in the future.

Anyway they will recover HD players are only Bait to make consumers buy a $3000++ 1080P display to actually be able to watch in 1080P and toshiba make nice displays.

I have both so it doesn't really bother me, still at least I didn't pay $1000-2000 for a redundant Blu Ray player that won't play advanced content.

PS Downloads aren't the future, downloading is merely a technical workaround for the fact that the bandwidth for video streaming isn't good enough.

Blu - Ray is better. Its good that this silly format war is over. Sensible move from Toshiba, no point flogging a dead horse.

well...i guess so.....hope Toshiba stops producing HD DVD players soon to get this war over with

The thing to note about downloads is that they require network service connections which, crazy as it sounds to people who are practically connected 24/7, not all movie watching people have. Of course these were the same people who adopted DVD only after movies being released on VHS slowed to a trickle and eventually disappeared from rental store shelves.

When optical wide band connectivity starts being built into homes and apartments as a standard feature and mass consumer connection speeds match/exceed the bandwidth of HDM formats, then downloads will essentially be the same as streaming with the option of recording to a media server device. It will be great, only this is not something that will be widely available for many years. In the meantime, I'd like to watch movies in HD today. 

Although I've supported both formats, there is virtually no reason for me to buy any movie on HD DVD that is also on BR-D since it's future is very limited. There will be a fair amount of HD DVDs that I'll pick up once the inventory clearing sales start happening, but this in no way helps the format.