"Today National Geographic released its list for upcoming titles and none appear on the HD DVD format. Instead, their one expected release, Sharkwater, was not found in the HD DVD category. The title is expected to release on 4/8 which is well before that June cutoff. This pretty much notifies the world that National Geographic has made the full switch to covering Blu-ray exclusively.

We’ll keep you posted on when BBC follows suit. After all it can’t be that far off."

http://www.psu.com/National-Geographic-to-commit-to-Blu-ray-early-News--a0002555-p0.php

Oh hell! Im gonna get myself 'I am legend' for Blu-ray!... My first movie in the new-generation of formats is gonna be a sweet one! Next up is Cloverfield <3!!!

ohhh, the thread is dying now

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/29449/Woolworths-dumps-HD-DVD

Oh well...although Woolies ain't the power it used to be, this might be a step to make other retails follow.

now if only Tesco would drop HD-DVD and the war in england would take a huge step to ending

Now it seems the BDA is less confident of HD-DVD dying than people here. They haven't made any big moves to finish HD-DVD off. Don't they have a larger share? Doesn't that count? Or are they actually going for something bigger than the majority of a 5% pie?

Accelleration of HD formats is as good as the introduction of DVD over VHS - Every HIFI shop i goto has dozens of $2000+ HD TV's displaying HD images , when people buy a $3000 50 inch HD display it would be pointless to settle for playing VGA quality SD images when for less than $1000 more they can get HD TV tuners-recorders, a Blu-ray player/HD-Dvd to go with it.

I think Toshiba are going down really hard - last year they payd Paramount 150+million to halt blu-ray titles for 18 months so they can try to catch up sales. Also with ~400 titles realeased and sales of only 2 million thats only an average of 5000 disks for each title - basically to break even you need to sell far more than that.
Toshibas deceitful pay off deal with paramount to go exclusive hd-dvd for 18months was to compensate the losses from HD-DVD since allmost no one buys them !.
In ~12 months time (or sooner if paramount wants) the exclusive deal ends and paramount will have 150Million USD from toshiba and then release dozens of blu-ray titles and make millions from blu-ray disk sales. Toshiba are throwing good money after bad with their sly anti-competative shady dealings - they deserve to go down hard for this. Their decietful underhand payment to Paramount was exposed and their 150 million dollar loss is by their own hand and well deserved.

"Accelleration of HD formats is as good as the introduction of DVD over VHS - Every HIFI shop i goto has dozens of $2000+ HD TV's displaying HD images , when people buy a $3000 50 inch HD display it would be pointless to settle for playing VGA quality SD images when for less than $1000 more they can get HD TV tuners-recorders, a Blu-ray player/HD-Dvd to go with it."

It would be pointless? Because there is no such thing as people saving up for a big purchase like an HDTV, and not being able to afford anymore?

That sounds like at least one point to me.

Plus the economy making such scenarios more likely is another point.

The point is that you are making a big mistake in assuming the rise of HDTVs means a rise in HD movies.

 You should definitely add Ratatouille to your list.  Phenomenal movie on any account, and it is the most beautiful Blu-Ray title I have ever seen.  A Scanner Darkly was another great way if you are into crazy sci-fi/drug movies.