Originally Posted by TM2-Megatron

Sony isn't the only company behind it, though. I wont disagree that Sony deserves to take a financial pounding for a lot of their recent (and not so recent) actions... personally, I hope the ridiculous PS3 kills off SCE for good.

However, dislike for Sony isn't going to make me ignore the benefits of Blu-Ray. The only advantages HD-DVD really has over Blu-Ray is better user-friendliness as far as home video releases go. However, Blu-Ray could easily widen the range of standards they support and match HD-DVD in this category in a fairly short time.

Personally, I'm not all that interested in who wins out in the HD home video market (at least not until flat-panel HDTVs provide actual good-quality images), but I would prefer Blu-Ray for use on my computer (either that, or a good hybrid HD-DVD/Blu-ray computer burner... although how likely is that in the near future?).