Similar things happened to CD-R. CD-R of 700MB, 800MB, and even 900MB and then 1.3GB doubled helped people to stay with CD, and prevented DVD recordables to enter the market for years. This is hardly a good thing. The earlier Blu-ray and HD-DVD enter the mass market, the better our future storage devices will be. The entertainment industry and broadcasting TV stations do not want HD-DVD and HDTV to become available to the mass at reasonable prices anytime soon because they need to invest new equipment to their hardware and software for HD-readiness. In South Korea, the government and the users want HDTV right now and the stations have been doing everything to stop it coming for a decade. The electronics industry naturally wants HD market to mature fast for higher profits. They are not going to invest too much in early phase because of fear of lack of demand.