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I’m a tech geek, so I created my own media center system at my house, but most of my customers don’t want a personally-rigged system—it’s tacky for a millionaire to showcase to their friends an X-box or Apple TV system or media center PC.  My typical customer wants an appliance that his wife, grandma, and kids can point and click…

Honestly, I don’t get the point of this editorial either. You’re lamenting that consumers don’t get to decide democratically which format will win? This makes zero sense to me. I don’t have either type of player at this point (like most consumers, I was waiting for the market to settle on one format), but from everything I’ve read, the quality…

Jodi Sally didn’t say she was devastated at all!! What she said was that she found it hard to read all the punters saying that “HD DVD is dead” and concluded with saying that “we’ve been pronounced dead before” She never said she was devastated by the Warner decision. Get your facts straight.

I agree, let the consumer decide…and the consumers HAVE decided. Blu-ray media outsells HD-DVD 70%-30% in Europe and 2 to 1 in the U.S. and that was before the Warner announcement.

Thaddeus - the article is an editorial on the format war. Are you confused by Cindy’s stance? Its quite clear to me.

The war is over and, in my opinion, the better side lost.  The bottom line is that in this world of small margins in CES and high commercial leases, shelf space at your big box and smaller stores comes at a premium.  It’s no seret that Circuit City and Best Buy have winced at having to maintain shelf space for…

Die HD-DVD! Die!!! Just kidding…. ;) Someone has to lose, it just isn’t fair to consumers to drag this thing on for years longer.  As an avid computer user, I’m glad it appears to be the format that has more storage potential.

What’s the point of this article?

Well Dimitri, I have to say you sound like a worried Toshiba salesman to me. In particular since you felt the need to spam your comment in two places. Credibility -1

Ever since they added Canada channels and some video service, it’s EVEN WORSE. They really need to do something about it.  It’s a wonderful idea who’s time has come, with fantastic content and programming, RUINED by cheap technology. It’s like taking a picture of a beautiful scene with a cell phone camera.  Sure you can make out what’s there, but…