HD-DVD is dead

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/02/hd-dvd-death-ma.html

When high-def movies were introduced to the home consumers had to choose between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray. Certain production companies had allegiances to certain companies, etc etc. You needed a certain player in your home to play each one. If you had a HD-DVD player and a movie produced by a production company aligned with Blu-Ray, you pretty much got railed. But in the past few months more and more left HD-DVD and began working with Blu-Ray. This reached it’s peak when Toshiba recently announced it will discontinue it’s production. Skeptics now believe even though HD-DVD is no longer a competitor, Blu-Ray needs to face the popularity of downloading. This is pretty interesting not because HD-DVD is dead, but they admit not only piracy is a competitor but television applications like on-demand. Either way home video isn’t what it use to be, but it certainly isn’t going to die. People enjoy have a physical object to keep as a collectable, but I won’t deny sales will diminish.