I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that no one cares about HD-DVD nor Blu-Ray in those places? Hence making the only people who have one of these formats being most likely a PS3 owner?

I'm not stating this as a fact, just wondering...

Well I've mentioned in a forum elswhere that the current "High Def Pinnicle" is Pirates of the Caribean one and 2, both of the movies reach bitrates at which HD-DVD physically CANNOT reach. They are supposed to be the BEST you can buy on disk at the moment. Not to mention both leave plenty of room for extas and top knotch audio. The basic movie produced by company's that support both wont look all that much better usually. Up until recently they were both encoded with the same format used to transfer to HD-DVD (the lower space format of the two) to save on production costs (reminds me of something else :P ) however, thats been dropping off pretty quickly and the bluray versions have been encoded with a much better format. And as I said earlier in this thread, King Kong was the prime example of a long movie hitting its limits. They coulden't do both, they had to sacrifice the audio for the picture, and in terms of me wanting a High Def movie, I don't want to sacrifice anything.

I just think people weighing out things like "well this is good enough" is a horrible way to spend money, since when was "good enough" actually good enough? I mean when I buy something, I want the best money/product ratio I can find. If I'm going to shell out money for a good entertainment setup I want something that will satisfy my current needs and anything that I might need in the next few years.

And @ Omac, if thats what you feel is important about your HD movie by all means :D I just dont feel like shelling out extra for a Combo disk... with the extra price and lower reliability I'd rather just get the Bluray.

It has 91% market in Japan specifically, and HDTV adoption is much higher there than it is in the States. Blu-Ray was released in Japan long before HD DVD was even finished, though in cartridge form:

The substantial lead Blu-Ray holds in Japan is the key reason why I think Blu-Ray will prevail in the format war.

wtf are you talking about, months ago the SAL ratio was worse (see my above post for some actual FACTS why dont you) BD supporters have been chiming in that teh PS3 factor is real and thats hwy we see increased software ratios, yet Toshiba and HD DVD liek to leave the PS3 out as if its a non factor.

the general public never even KNEW that BD SAL's took over the ratio until today when the DVD forum announed HD DVD "regained" the lead. You have no ****** clue what youre talking about, you just want to try to jump on the bandwagon here and try to belittle kwadd and hat eon Sony, its funny because you have NO IDEA what youre even argueing, all you know is that its cool to make fun of the PS3, BD and Sony here so you jump all over it.

Youre argueing that this news is GOOD for HD DVD when the announced ratio have DECREASED since april DRAMATICALLY...youre oblivious and its realy really sad/funny.