HD-DVD died too early, had it lived longer, competition would have driven prices lower and now we'd see cheaper BD players and movies and higher sales. Higher BD drives production would have lowered faster its price too, lowering also PS3 production costs. Anyhow, in a year BD drives will be quite cheap, and Cell will be cheaper too, so Sony costs nightmare will be finally over. If Sony will be eager to overtake MS before, it will have to work on pricing too, so it will cost money, but it could pay more in the mid and long term, so it's up to them to decide.
PR spin is just what we have to expect, as Sony will do anything that could help, but hey, doesn't MS always do the same? (I didn't say Nintendo, because Wii's success exceeded even their rosiest predictions).

This is not going to happen unless Sony pays for it to happen.  DVD sales generate huge amounts of revenue, and studios are not going to limit their potential market so some other company can enlarge theirs.  Given Sony's moneyhat policy don't hold your breath waiting for this to happen.

300% yoy isn't that remarkable considering how slowley it got off the ground.

DVD had a way higher YOY.

vs DVD PLAYERS.

Disc consumption is something different all together. With disc sales being well below US Disc sales. Combined they don't equal what DVDs sold in the US alone at this point.

Worldwide combined numbers likely don't match DVD disc sales at this point unless asia accounts for 70%+ of all blu-ray disc sales.

16.3? That's way below the official DVD consortium numbers... Ah i see also it would be 2 years vs 3. DVD started 2 quarter into the year just like Blu-ray did.

DVD sales exploded... from that time Nielson got 16.3 total DVD sales rose to over 80 million at this time from the official numbers.  I'll see if i can dig them up again.

wtf is this.

bluray is better than dvd and hddvd.

especially for games as time goes on, developers will be better off making on bluray as in the recent rage fiasco shows, i feel sorry for purchasers of the toned down rage!

I was going to post something to (part of) that effect, but I was afraid to be called a HD-DVD supporter again.

Did you even read the OP/cited article?  The entire thread is about sales, it has nothing to do with perceived quality or utility.

I don't get why people are pushing drive adoption over disc adoption when the drives can be used for other things.

What happens when PS2's start getting counted as DVD players?

Big stories about Blu-ray adoption suddenly slowing to less then half of what DVD adoption did. (Though DVD was already firmly settled and popular by the time it came out.

Because that was the easiest way to spin us into believing that Blu-Ray was growing faster than mould on a month-old piece of bread.

I mean, look at this thread. You have several people who still seemed to believe that even after concrete data was posted to disprove it. Clearly, the spin is working.