I personally have not written off HD-DVD and this would seem to add some weight. How this will affect Sony and more importantly the PS3 will remain to be seen. I still think that the critical mass has yet to happen and in all honesty it will be the HD-DVD who will arrive with the cheaper consumer boxes coupled with the potentially cheaper discs that could still swing this against Sony. Dual format does not help Sony due to the cheaper manufacture costs incurred in tooling to HD-DVD.
For all those that would bemoan Paramount for extending this war, I would point to the fact that HD-DVD is the natural successor (DVD Consortium) and it is Sony's desire to get a format out the door with mass acceptance and some film houses seeing a way out of DVD royalties that made this the war it should of never been.
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For all those that would bemoan Paramount for extending this war, I would point to the fact that HD-DVD is the natural successor (DVD Consortium) and it is Sony's desire to get a format out the door with mass acceptance and some film houses seeing a way out of DVD royalties that made this the war it should of never been.