HD DVD group cancels pre-CES press conference

Blu ray? Hddvd? What are these? I just go to pirates bay for hd movies :)

So... Sony won? *grabs Bible*

Anyone with half a brain should realize at this point that both formats are going the way of Beta. Lets just say that people warmed to DVD one hell of a lot faster than people are buying either of the HD formats... for obvious reasons.

No reply button negativecool, it happens sometimes.

I'm going to tell a little story. It may or may not have anything to do with previous comments or the content of the above article.

A week ago, I was in a major city browsing through a major retailer's HD movie section. Said major retailer, at least from experience, has a nice balanced amount of HD movies. HDDVD and BD are given about equal shelf space in every store I've been in since the war started. I was browsing through the HD section at a branch of this store I've been to many times, a store that has continued to impress me with its seemingly unbiased approach to the HD format war.

As my fiance trapsed off to the romantic DVD section (she has no need for or knowledge of HD movies) I found myself in shock. The usually robust HDDVD section, a veritable sea of burgandy, was wounded. Over half of its original space had been taken over by a wave of blue. The HD movie section was no longer a 50/50 split. Bluray had gained another 25 percent shelf space.

Surprisingly enough, as we found ourselves in another major retailer later in the day, a less technically focused one at that, I found a similar scenario. The original 50/50 split had deteriorated to a near 90/10 share. BD was so prominent at this retailer that I had to ask to find the HDDVD section for my eyes were not invasive enough. After a lengthy journey through the jungles of aisles, I was led to a small alcove that carried about 10 movies.

I left empty handed from both stores. I instead traveled back home distraught. I gently stroked my 360's HDDVD drive and my PS3's silver drive strip as I lamented the loss of retailer neutrality in the war. I thought I had the best of both worlds, but it may soon be better for me to stick with DVD instead of trying to ride the fence a little longer in this war. Perhaps there is merit in my fiance's ignorance of HD. Ignorance, it seems to me now, may indeed by bliss.

I have to say that I still own a betamax. So forgive me if I don't just jump ship now on HD DVD and start on my collection of Blu Ray.

It would seem that the nails are lining up for HD-DVD's coffin:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dc409afa-bd75-11dc-b7e6-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1

Hd-dvd is better. Its easy to make hd-dvds on dvd-r.
Just download a hd mpeg2 from your tivo hd. use video redo to take out the ads. and burn it with ulead movie maker 6. it only takes 30 min. to do.

Blu-rays on dvd-r take forever to make since they have be converted to mpeg 4.

I bet the blu-ray people never though of this.