This is why I hope HD-DVD dies!

I don't want BluRay OR HD-DVD for watching movies - It just isn't worth it unless you have a 1080p TV or something.

The only reason I want it is for storage!

And in this regard, BluRay is better than HD-DVD in every respect.

However, already with DVD's, the quality and reliability is bad.
Many of my Verbatim DVDs have shown considerably worse degradation than even my crappy old Maxell blue-dye CDs! Admitedly they are not stored particularly well (Dark place, but warm in summer...), but the stuff I have backed up on 2 old and dying 200GB Maxtor MaxLine II HDs are still perfectly fine

If they can get BluRay to be reliable and stable in the long term, I will jump for it! I like the fact that they have toughened coatings, which the HD-DVD does not. Not sure how much it will help in the Real World, but every little helps I guess.

But frankly, if you could buy 40GB 2.5" SATA HDDs for like, £15, I'd use those instead of DVDs or BD/HD-DVD and just build a little SATA hotswap bay for them
They take up less space and are more reliable!

A pity those holographic wafers are no where to be seen... only 300GB Holodisk which costs 500x more than a 300GB 3.5" HD!!!!